On Friday morning we started the day at the office of the lady who supports the careworkers out in Share community. Audrey is such an inspiration- working against the odds to help people look after their own communities. Against the odds is suchan understatement... it would be so easy to rush in and impose solutions which would further walk all over he powerless,...but instead they build up local people, help them find faith, resource and inspire them and enable them to look after people in their own communities. The careworkers often live in similar circumstances though...and yet are so gracious...so giving...so compassionate...
I cannot get over the way that the poor can be so discarded here...left to die in the gutter...when the infrastructure is in place just down the road. How can it be that one community can live in beautiful homes with swimming pools behind high security gates and fences... and go to work in good jobs and eat balanced meals, while others are left hungry and cold at their gates...without even the barest essentials. Kids without parents, security, healthcare...without good men in their communities who can model parenting...affection...play...biblical values...without any regular source of food ...and we moan when the right programme's not on the telly or a shop doesn't sell our preferred brand.
To then be told that the chief of the village just its back and does nothing ...that orphans are bullied...that women are chased from homes with their children when their partners move on...to meet such beautiful people and know they are so powerless they cannot even reach to grab the bottom rung of the ladder...we have seen so much and yet know so little...
The resilience of some of these people who take in others' children and nurture them as their own when they themselves have nothing...and to sit with grown men breaking their hearts that nothing is being done...
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