For the past 4 weeks we have had a thief coming to YWAM at night and stealing yards and yards of our black plastic covering our interlocking bricks. This is a little bit of a petty crime, but significant since every cent used for things with the clinic are totally donated, and the clinic is being built for the very community the guy is from...
To make it worse... one of the guys that was working with us on the clinic for a month was found to be stealing plastic the other day, hiding it in the trees. Vinj talked it through with him, on how the clinic is being built and sponsored by so many people for HIM and his family, people just like him, so how could he be stealing from something like that. To look at the moral of it, and the reproductions for him, since YWAM would not be able to trust him again for a long time, and if more were stolen he would be the prime suspect. AND we have been employing him on the building for a month now!
So why would he take it a step further and steal plastic.
Now put your self in his shoes.
It is rainy season and many people don’t even have roofs on their mud huts or walls... we assumed the people stealing were covering their roofs, BUT soon it became evident by the amount being stolen he was stealing and re-selling it.
What would you do if you were poor and had an alcohol addiction?
Or you had hungry babies to feed at home?
Or no roof, and rains coming with no relent on you and your family every day?
Of corse we would be desperate and almost do anything to make things right.
Second story...
The christmas party for the kids went well last Saturday. But we discovered something very sad.
One of the girls who have been coming for along time was wearing a belly kind of shirt, and I was shocked to see a little baby belly! Now that i think back I think she must have wanted us to see she was pregnant other wise why would she wear a shirt like that.
She is maybe 17 years old, and we JUST got money in to send her back to school to start at grade 8 and be sponsored for the next three years.
The biggest concern of corse is possible “date rape” , and the highest concern is obvious unprotected sex, which could quite possibly lead to HIV/ADIS for her.
We saw her walking down the road and talked to her yesterday, Vinj just came right out and asked how far along she was, she looked down and was embarrassed and said three months along. We tried to tell her it was going to be ok, we are going to talk with the family next week and see what their plans are for her and school, and for the baby. It is still very tabu to be having a baby as an unmarried girl, please pray for this situation, that we could be there in a real way for this baby, and this girl named Mary.
