Powerful Day

Sherri meeting with Kafwa health workers in Kasompe

The Kafwa healthworkers took us on home visits today to 6 of their clients.  What a powerful experience!  Such incredibly brave, courageous, and upbeat people living in extreme poverty with few creature comforts.  To a person they thanked us profusely for visiting their little homes and beamed with pride that 'the visitors' had taken time to visit them.

The Kafwa have an emergency fund to provide critically needed items for their clients.  During the last six months they spent around $90 and accounted for every Kwacha in a well-kept ledger book with a narrative account of the need along with the items purchased.  I was especially touched that they arranged for transportation to the hospital for one of their clients who had no family.   Even though the Kafwa had essentially done all they could and placed her in the care of medical professionals, their care and compassion did not end.  They took a few of their precious Kwacha from the emergency fund and spent it on bus transportation to the hospital to let their client know she was not alone and forgotten. She never recovered enough to come home and passed away in November but she had Kafwa caring about her until the end.