I got this card from my friend Rosemary. She’s in Senegal, Africa for the summer… her second summer working in a boy’s home. Here it is, right after July 4th, when we are reveling in our escape from the cruelty and injustice of taxation without representation. I’m not making light of it. We fought a war to get our freedom.
That’s what Rosemary and her team are doing…fighting a war. In this case the victims are street boys living in Dakar. The Rainbows of Hope web site posts there are 100,000 children beggers in Senegal. Whatever the reasons: famine, poverty or no living parents, thousands of boys are placed in the care of Muslim teachers who are to make them their disciples. Part of the training is to send these children into the streets to beg for their needs. From the photos I’d guess these boys are elementary school age. One she told us about from last year was 7.
Rosemary goes to help relieve the couple who are house parents at Maison de L’Espoir, a small orphanage-type home for street boys. For this small number of boys there is a family. They have health care, get to go to school and be protected. They are loved, not exploited.
Postmarked: “Love, Jesus”
