Friday, October 23, 2009

Another Widow in Need




This last week we asked several visitors to the ship who might be in need of a little special help in their community. We were pointed to another widow who lived pretty much hand to mouth each day. She also had 3 grandchildren who lived with her. Their mother had died and the father had abandoned them. So we went to visit her.
She cooked rice cakes beside the road from her makeshift home. She did not own any land but was allowed to build a crude shelter to sleep in each night with her grandchildren. She expressed her fear each night as the local dogs would bark and she could not see in the dark what might be near. We bought her a flashlight and gave her some rice but the roof leaked and there were no side walls to her house. We considered taking some tarps and wrapping it around the outside of her house for some security. We also thought how we might cover the roof somehow to stop the rain from coming in each night. We decided to think about it. How might we help her?

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