Just finished our 8th distribution, with the
knowledge that 5,250 children will be getting a better sleep tonight than they
may have had for a long time. The need
is apparent everywhere around us, and the joy at receiving such a precious gift
is sometimes very palpable.
As we were wrapping up today, I was thinking of all of the
people that have come together to make this possible. First, there are the donors, who have cared
enough to purchase a bedkit for a child they do not know and will never
meet. Then there are the travelling
volunteers, who have the privilege of handing out the bedkits and meeting these
children first-hand. There are people at
the SCAW office, who arrange distributions, accept donations and produce tax
receipts, match photographs with donors, and a host of other activities that
make SCAW work so well. Overseas, there
are a number of volunteers, from the ladies who dress the children, to the
stunt drivers who drive trucks to the distribution sites, to the volunteers
that unload the trucks and assist with the distributions, to the translators
who work so tirelessly whenever we need to talk to someone in Swahili. Also, the manufacturers of bedkit items see
the value in what is being done, and provide some of the bedkit items at cost
(or even donate from their resources to help).
Finally, there is Mama Wandoa and her family, who have taken on the task
of coordinating the bedkit assembly, the finding of children who need the most,
and the logistics of having us, the bedkits, and the children all at the same
place at the same time.
All in all, I would say this is a pretty good team effort!
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