By Linda Wilkinson | Founder of Chikumbuso
One of the widows at Chikumbuso has taken 13 children into her home over the years as her siblings have died.
This has been both her pleasure and a source for misery.
" I want you to feel my feelings that I have and the joy of my soul," Maureen writes in a letter to me. "The first thing in my heart, as you know, is my health. Thank you for paying for my clinic visits. The second thing is for my boys. Asafi, Gift and Jeyson. What can say but God bless Chikumbuso. If I had a choice in life to say who should die first I can say let me go because of how I fail to praise you (Chikumbuso). Only God knows how I appreciate you.
I am shedding tears of joy as I write this letter because you have changed my misery into joy, you could never understand it. I am a person with a free mind even if things here in Zambia are hard. By this time I could be blind and my mind so blank... I could write so much of my feelings toward Chikumbuso but it would end up making a hard cover book that no one could finish reading.
God Bless you all, everyone too numerous to mention."
One by one, year by year Maureen gets each of these children through school. This year Gift and Asafi were sent to schoolby a generous donor and Jeyson's college fees were paid off. You are making a difference and Maureen's joy is complete.
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