TODAY
Today, a young girl has been given no food so her brothers
can eat…where is the hope?
Today, a young girl has been married off to an older man she
does not know
Today, a young girl has become pregnant…too young and too
small to deliver naturally
Today, a young girl, grieving the loss of her stillborn
child, has just woken up in her bed soiled with urine and feces…bewildered and
ashamed
Today, a young girl has been left by her husband, kicked out
of the house by her family, and forced to fend for herself due to her odor
Today, a young woman realized it is her 10th year
of lying in a wet bed…hope continuing to vanish
Today, an older woman struggles through her 40th
year with fistula, sitting alone in her hut unaware that a cure exists
Today, a woman cleans herself in the hope that a neighbor in
her village may say “Hi” today…hope is not lost yet
Today, a woman is traveling alone on her way to a hospital,
leaking with every step but not turning back, holding onto hope of a cure, a
new life
Today, a young girl is carried on her father’s back to reach
a hospital to be cured of fistula…feeling loved along the way
Today a woman recovers in a hospital bed, cured of
fistula…hope returning
Today, a young girl returns home in new clothing after a
successful fistula surgery
Today, a woman makes a home in a new community, free of
fistula and its horrors
Today, a woman is welcomed back to her former community as a
whole person…hope restored
Today, a young girl is given food to eat alongside her
bothers
Today, a young girl is given the chance to study and learn
Today, a young girl is cherished as a gift from God and
protected from the dangers in this world…hope that is real and strong
Today…
