My Kenyan friend, Rosemary, who is a Medical Mission Sister now working on assignment in the town of Techiman in Ghana (about a three-hour drive from Tamale), brightened my day with a surprise visit. We first met last year during a course at the Tamale Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies, struck up a great friendship, and have since kept in touch. Sadly, Rosemary has just returned from a home leave to Kenya when a few short days after arriving, her beloved and only sister, Monica, died during childbirth. As happens with far too many African women, complications which might be readily treated in a hospital are not addressed when giving birth in a rural village setting. Monica leaves behind seven children who have already suffered with the burning of their home during recent violence there.
Opportunities abound every day for me to count my own personal blessings.
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