Global Poverty Monitor

After meeting the community we drove to Dawn’s sponsored child’s house. Her name was Ganizai Regido, and she was a very sweet, shy little girl, wearing a beautiful brand new dress that World Vision supplies all sponsored children when they are about to meet their sponsors. It was awkward for Dawn to being with, because its like she’s supposed to have a bond with a child that she really doesn’t know. All three of the sponsored children from today are very newly sponsored – only from when we started organizing the trip, and there have been no letters exchanged between the sponsors and the children as yet. Ganizai Regido really warmed to Dawn after a while, and liked to stay close to her. Dawn gave her some great gifts too, like a soccer ball, a skipping rope and a little koala. They played together for a while, teaching the child how to use her new toys, and then the family served lunch, with was a rice dish and some cooked meat.

Next we visited a group of orphans. In Mozambique, orphans are defined to be any child who has lost one or both of their parents. So the definition is not as harsh here as it is in Australia. This was only a quick stop because it was on the way, so we stayed for only a few minutes. Our next destination was the home of Liena Tembo, Kristy’s sponsored child.

Liena was a confident little 9 year old girl, who marched straight up to Kristy and shook her hand. She too was wearing a very pretty brand new dress. Her father was very happy and extremely proud. He was eager to show us his garden, which we were happy to see. His garden was very impressive, it was lush and green and had about 10 different types of fruits and grains. We had another lunch at the house, more of the cooked meat and some vegetable dishes, as well as the rice-like food from before, called Cassava.