Baby's Birthday

The work that Shining a Light does is empowering women. We work to train women in areas that will allow them to provide for themselves and their children. Along with this awesome work of transformation that God has allowed me to share in, I get to love on and minister to the children in my village here in Tanzania.

 

The other day we found out that it was Baby's, our little neighbor girl, 6th birthday. Knowing that birthdays are not special around here and that most kids living in extreme poverty as Baby is, rarely know their age let alone their birthday, we decided to go all out and throw her a party.

I dug out any and every toy, craft, balloon etc that I had remaining from friends visits, baked a cake and ordered sodas from the local shop and opened the gates to as many kids as I had sodas.

Donned in her homemade princess crown and handmade dress that came from one of our Shining a Light ladies, Baby, jumped, laughed, played and ate junk food until her hearts content.

My life is full of challenges living and working in a country where

 justice and equality is nonexistent but last Tuesday 

I had a day that makes it all worth it.