MozamWeek

Last month, my side-kick and right-hand Community Reading leader met a little girl who touched her heart in a special way. Veronica met Sara on a hill behind the market. They were reading with other kids in that part of town. Veronica noticed Sara's foot was swollen and asked about it. The story was somehow familiar... injury, medical care, follow-up that didn't happen. Now there was a problem. Sara is 9 years old and doesn't go to school because walking 5 km with a foot that hasn't properly healed is too hard. Last year she was hit by a car while walking from school. The driver took the second-grader to hospital. She was admitted and stayed about 3 months. There were x-rays, some surgery, maybe even skin grafts. In the end she was sent home to heal. Once the sore was healed, she should start physiotherapy. But Sara lives with her grandmother- not her father's mother, but father's step-mother. Her father lives far away in another province. Her mother passed ...

I live in Tete Mozambique. I stay here for months at a time... sometimes years, without really going anywhere. It is usually great! I went to Muizenburg, South Africa in for a month in May and June. We had meetings. We met friends. We had training and evaluations. We had fun, too. It was great!  I came home for a week. I went to Maputo, Mozambique for a week to do a Bloom workshop in Portuguese to help ADPP produce books in Changana and Ronga langauges. It was great! I came home for a week. My kids came home from boarding school! It was great! The whole family was together for a whole week! We celebrated my 50th birthday with friends and my kids surprised me. It was great.  I took off with my eldest for the USA and we stayed for about 3 weeks including travel. We had a blast! I saw my MOM... and my sisters... and my nieces and my nephews and my brothers-in-law! I visited my churches. I told about Mozambique. I talked about reading books with kids. I talked ...