The saying says to treat all children as if they were your own. So goes Sister Amelia, whom the older girls call Sister Granny. Such a term of endearment. This was my first visit to what is called a creche. Driving through the poorest area of Luanda with roads at times almost impassable we arrived at a gate and once opened entered into a space that had been lovingly created to care for the poorest of the poor. Sister Amelia took us through this facility and would point at the tables or the chairs and say "do you see those tables? I kept going to the Ministry of Transportation and they gave them to me." Her story so revolved around her persistance to accomplish her call from God. The land, the facilities, the tables and such come from a sweet woman going before man and continuing to ask. I felt as if I were living the bible story of the persistant widow. What a woman! What a gift she is to all who have the honor to meet her! I had this honor and my life will forever be changed.
