All my children – say hello to Zandile
My coworker Laura fled the scene last year to go work at an orphanage in South Africa – wow! She has kept us current with the goings on there, where she oversees many children who are HIV positive. We had spoken earlier about setting up some fund to get enough diapers to these kids – because of a lack of funds, they were forced to wear the diapers longer than was comfortable. But the year escaped and we never did get that going even though it has been hanging over my head.
I contacted her to see what she needed now that I can pick my head above the misty grey cloud it has been in and she asked me – do you want to sponsor a child who I just got into the English speaking school? – I said, do I? Are you kidding?
So Zandile is going to school and she is tall and lithe and Laura calls her Bones because she is so skinny. And now I want nothing more than to go to South Africa before Laura leaves to visit her orphanage and meet Zandile in person.