You may have heard about Monica Chipili on the recent Good News Update. Monica is in the girls program, and after finishing school, she joined the Zambian National Service. She is training to be a nurse and is receiving a monthly stipend. On her own, she reached out to Theresa to discuss paying back the loan she received, starting from the first assistance in Grade 10.
Theresa told Monica her high school tuition fees were paid for by a scholarship and repayment wasn't needed and Monica could begin with her college loan. Monica said she wanted to start from when she first got help in order to help those young girls coming up behind her.
We've shared the image of a Mother Hen pecking at the outside shell of a baby chick, who in turn is pecking back from the inside. Both actions are required to assist the baby chick to break through. There are numerous stories of the "Mother Hens," in Kantolomba, who have been actively pecking on the shells of our girls these many years.
Monica, one of those baby chicks, in fact, one of the first 100 children in the Africa Vulnerable Children Project, has now grown into a Mother Hen herself! And she is turning around, walking toward the next set of baby chicks behind her, pecking on that outer shell to assist the next to break through.
It truly is a special moment in this program, for our girls, for our community, for all. Just imagine the vibration being created by all those pecks! I project we will all feel that impact for years to come.
In GasshÅ,
Sreedevi