Today Catherine and I visited Moureen’s place. Moureen is an African woman who is trying to help women who have been involved in prostitution and their children. She does this with pretty minimal resources, they have a great piece of land that IT has helped them rent where several of the woman and dozens of children live in small, rundown rooms. They are trying to help the women get trained in other sources of livelihood like basket making and tailoring so that they can provide for their families. They also have a church that meets their on Sundays and Moureen is trying to provide spiritual support and direction for the women.
Today when we arrived we were greeted by about 20 skinny little kids in extremely ragged clothes eager to hold our hands and play. So we brought out some balloons, skipping ropes and a beach ball and had a spontaneous kids club. Very fun!
On the sobering side we visited one of the women who live there who is dying of AIDS. She and her 9 kids live in one of the smallest houses I have ever seen. It is one room about the size of our bathroom at home. It is hard to imagine that they could all fit in their standing up, let alone lying down to sleep. It broke our hearts to see this woman so sick and with so little for us to do to help. We prayed for her and left some money to buy her some food. May God intervene in this woman’s life in ways that only He can do.
