Another story to tell you about.

This happened in early May while we were still in Swaziland. Jackie and I were sitting near the new warehouse building one evening after dark, I was on the phone trying to change our tickets again :). The Minister of Social welfare was out of the country at the time so he was unable to sign the waiver for the kids international passports until the following week, so we were postponing our trip home again :)

Well we were sitting there this guy comes walking by and says to Jackie “thank you so much, you have saved my life” Jackie said, your welcome and then after the guy walked away, Jackie turned to Mfana and asks, “Who’s that guy?”

Mfana said, well the other day this guy came on to the site and he saw him walking away with two wooden poles over his shoulder and he yelled at him saying, hey what are you doing come back here with our poles, the guy turned around and came back and admitted he was trying to steal them. Mfana knows the guy as he’s kind of the town drunk and everyone in the area knows him, so Mfana asks him why he was trying to steal the poles and he says, “I have nothing left except a few chickens and I need to build a shelter for them”. Mfana looks at him and says, it’s lunch time so go and put the poles back, have some lunch and then come and work for us instead of stealing, then you can earn the money to build your chicken's a shed.

Well the guy has been working for us ever since and Mfana says he’s one of our best workers and he is always watching over our stuff in the evening to make sure no one is trying to steal anything LOL. Mfana said all he needed was someone to believe in him and give him a chance. In fact I think that is what most of us need at one time or another in our struggle through life, Someone to believe in us and give us a Chance. :) :)

Ray