Monday, January 30, 2006
Death Sentence
In the last blog, Teresa talked about a young girl we unsuccessfully tried to get to the clinic who has been sick for a very long while at the Ngwane CarePoint. Her name is Nqobile. We went searching for her and found her hiding at the river, but were unable to convince her to go with us. We found out today why. Nqobile’s father is dead, so her mother has to respect or do whatever her brothers tell her. They forbade her to allow us to take Nqobile to the hospital that day. They said “… let her die and we will help with funeral expenses. Take her to the clinic and we will not help you at all with any thing in the future.” Apparently her mother was really there when we went searching for Nqobile, but chose to hide in the forest rather than talk with us. Why would a family dictate such a thing? How could they dictate such a thing? Afraid of shaming the family with an HIV infected member, afraid of exposing incest that infected the child?
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2 comments:
we can't stop crying...
and this child is just one of hundreds, no, thousands of kids in desperate situations.
Jesus is the only hope for change in their lives.
this is exactly why children's cup is in swaziland.
thanks for being there.
Your story recalled the beginning of Jesus' ministry in Mark where following Him means a radical reorientation of familial power. The power of the Word is that it can liberate her from her bondage in very real and multifaceted ways.
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