Little Heroes

Hero definition: a person, typically a man, who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities:

The tiny body is crawled up in bed, weeks without eating left her week and extremely malnourished. I look at her and I feel completely helpless. She is eight years old and for eight years she has been fighting AIDS. She can not get out of bed, she has to be carried everywhere and shows no reaction when we talk to her.

Leonor our co - director took her for a house visit, because she has being crying out at night to visit her family. Her grandmother told Leonor after seeing Hawa that she can not bring Hawa on the property, because Hawa is sick. Her mother never visits her and she so wants to see her.

On her last doctors visit Hawa was also diagnosed with TB and the doctor asked us not to isolate her or have her stay in hospital, because she will not survive isolation or the hospital. Our prayer partners started praying for Hawa and we started a new diet and treatment for TB. She started gaining strength and it brought me so much joy to see her standing and playing on the swing. She gained over a kilogram this last week, she walks around and plays with the other children. We serve a God of miracles and He loves Hawa so much, a child abandoned by her family, because she has AIDS. She has AIDS, because her mother passed it onto her, nothing of her own doing and every day she has to fight this terrible disease.

She is my hero, please pray for her, she needs so much more strength so that she can return to school. Please pray for so many that fight the same fight is she is fighting. AIDS is not the punishment for the sin of man and please never call it that until you held a child with AIDS in your arms.