The Watch

The outpouring of love was evident all week as friends and relatives arrived from far and near to show their respects to Mary Chifumbe, one of our Kafwa volunteers who served faithfully for over 20 years.  The number of people at the visitation at the Chifumbe home the night before the funeral was amazing!  ALL furniture was removed from the house and placed outside on the lawn for the 75 or so men to sit on.  Mattresses and mats were brought from throughout the neighborhood and placed wall to wall inside the house and along the walls outside for approximately 100 ladies.  Grieving is not silent in Zambia so the wails of the women were a constant reminder of the death of their beloved sister.  Everyone stayed all night – the women singing inside the house and the men huddling around a humongous bonfire to keep warm.  What a tribute!