Today we visited a partnering organization of MWB, called Bwafano. Bwafano was created by an amazing Zambian named Mrs. Chola who saw something wrong in her community and decided that she was going to try to help. Bwafano is based in a compound which is like the ghetto of Zambia. Because of Mrs. Chola, Bwafano now has a school which teaches and feeds the children in that community, an AIDS testing center, a women's sewing club, and a whole network of people who check up on the people in the community who are sick with AIDS so that they can make sure that they are taking their medicine. It is pretty amazing to see all the work that she has done with Bwafano and how much it is helping her community.
We got to go on a little tour of the community and follow some of the volunteers who check up on the AIDS patients. The volunteer that my group followed was named Earnest, and he was a truly amazing man. Earnest has many children of his own that he needs to feed, and he doesn't have a job, but he is still willing to serve his neighbors who are affected by AIDS. Earnest told us that sometimes he and the other volunteers will even pitch in some money to help those with AIDS so that they can afford to get their medicine. And when asked why he does what he does he replied that he loved his community and he wanted to make it better. It has been so inspiring for me to see people with absolutely nothing, who are living in the worst conditions, and yet they are the happiest most loving people that I have ever met.
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