Chamba is a sweet girl that Brian came to know in Zambia during the summer of 2008. (That summer Brian was on summer staff with Family Legacy Missions and was able to get to know a lot of kids!)
During the 5 days of camp each counselor is to meet one-on-one with each child in their group. That is the time where you find out some of the hardships that these kids deal with on a day to day basis. Here is Chamba's story.
"Her parents lived in separate places and she rarely saw her father. Two of her siblings have already passed away. Chamba’s mother practices witchcraft and gets drunk almost everyday. Unfortunately, Chamba suffers severely from a lack of hearing in both ears because her mother sprayed rat poison in both of them on a regular basis as a form of punishment for no reason. Sweet Chamba has suffered from evil, vivid nightmares as a result of losing her siblings and her mother practicing witchcraft over her."
-This was taken from the Family Legacy website
After hearing about this during camp, Family Legacy did everything they could to help this sweet girl. Brian and another girl on summer staff would visit Chamba on a daily basis for a few weeks giving her shots to help with the infection in her ears.
Here they are on one of their visits.
The summer came to an end and Brian had to come home. Brian and I were not able to go to Zambia in 2009 or 2010 and so we didn't know how Chamba was doing. The very last day of camp after all of the campers have gone the Americans take a tour of The Tree of Life. The Tree of Life is basically an orphanage that Family Legacy has built as a safe place for kids in the worst situations to come and live. The parents must give up full custody to Family Legacy.
Well as we were walking around Tree of Life Brian sees a little girl running towards him. That little girl was Chamba. Here is the rest of her story.
"Now at the Tree of Life Children’s Village, Chamba has a whole new family! She praises God for her regular medical treatment with her ears and we are all praying for a full healing on her behalf. Chamba wants to be a doctor when she grows up and is now well on her way to her dream!"
There are countless other stories of children living at the Tree of Life that have been rescued out of situations like Chamba's. When you read the statistics and get overwhelmed with the problem it is so encouraging to realize that these kids are being transformed....even if it is just one kid at a time!
Here is a picture of Chamba at the Tree of Life.
The next post will be about a girl named Grace. Stay tuned!
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