Amazing Kafwa



Kafwa meeting in open-air school kitchen

I had a 3 hour meeting with the amazing Kafwa health workers.  They arrived at 8:00 to meet me but I was in the classrooms with the children and didn't find out they were waiting until almost noon.  They continue to bring critically needed health care to the community.  The 12 Kafwa currently have 20 patients that they visit weekly.  They related a recent experience they had with a 27-year-old patient named Joseph.  When they found out he was ill he was so weak he could not walk.  They booked a car and immediately took him to the doctor, bought food for him, and gave him lots of encouragement.  It turned out he had TB.  He told the Kafwa, "Without you, I could have died."

As soon as they finished telling me about Joseph, they said, "We need a camera so we can take pictures of our patients when we first start working with them and then after they get better."  With my encouragement they are now busily preparing a budget to include this request as well as funds for umbrellas and boots needed to muck through the mud to visit patients. They also said it would be nice to have funds to provide a Kafwa Celebration meal once a year like we provided for the children before Christmas vacation.   All modest requests from people who have been loyal volunteers for 25 years!