Alex and Walter

Alex is a special little boy that lives in Mololoa. He just started school this year thanks to some very generous people in the states. Alex has a younger brother named Walter and they are two of the many who have wiggled their little selves into my heart.

They are so sweet to greet me with a big hug and kiss and it is pretty much guaranteed that Walter will be filthy. I have to admit a few times I have flinched a little when he runs at me with lips puckered up and his little face covered in spaghetti sauce. I mean I wonder if the child actually hit his mouth with the spaghetti or if he just kind of rubbed it around on his face. But he is so happy to see me and so very excited calling Alisha, Alisha (Melissa) that I always grab him up for my hug and kiss.

Alex is a little more reserved and usually hugs my legs and ducks his head.

Alex and Walter started coming to Sunday Class last year. When they first started to come they would quietly sit at the tables and not say much. Neither boy could do even the simplest of crafts and I had to put them on “glue watch” as them were eating more glue than normal. I would have someone sit with them and help them with the projects.

These are the boys that I found sitting under the tables eating paper one day. I mean eating paper, not merely tasting it or sampling a little bite but eating it. I talked to their mother and found out they had not been eating. She was to the point of giving them up as there was nothing to feed them and no hope of getting work for herself. As usual people have some through and Nenci has been able to keep her children.

They come to the kitchen everyday and they are able to get help with food, water and medical care.
They both participate so much more in class now and Alex has started kindergartener and is doing wonderful. I see such a difference in these boys over the last few months.

Thanks to the caring and the on going support of this small family I see a shine in their eyes, they are active and healthy, they laugh and smile and their social skills are improving. In fact I have seen so much progress they have been taken off of “glue watch”. Thank you for letting me be the hands that get to deliver this food in the name of the Father. Thank you for letting me be the one to get great big hugs and dirty kisses from two sweet little boys with lots of love to share. Thank you for making it possible for them to go to bed with full bellies. Thank you for giving them a chance at an education. Thank you for being a biblical example in providing for the poor, for giving in a quite and unassuming manner with all joy. I know that no thanks are necessary but I want you to know that the mothers and the children thank God for their provisions and they thank God for you……….So do I.