Hope this finds you well, i am extremely amazed to learn about the great work you do to help you fellow human kind. i would describe you as a woman blessed with a very big heart.

It's being a long time since i last saw or heard from you and John and i hope and believe that we can be intouch.

Kindly email me when you can and send my love to John and your family.

Elly Gathungu
ellygathungu@gmail.com

blessings on you and your family…

In a world where we have so much, but thousands of children die each day of curable diseases even those with the hardest hearts must melt and do something. I think it is easy for us to leave it to the politicians, and indeed blame them when we see hunger and disease on TV but we all have a part to play, every one of us, and if we don’t I cannot see how we can ever blame others. Mother Theresa said ‘It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish’. I pray for the day when I have show my children a history book for them know what ‘poverty is’. Pastor Milton Bailey from Rock River in Jamaica said to me once that if you pray for rain you better leave home with an umbrella. For me anyway, this was a calling for me to get off my ‘back side’ and do something about the things I know are not right in the world.

I am blessed to have been given the gift of being a midwife and try my best to use my skills to help others in poor regions of the world. I believe that every one of us has a skill and God calls us every day to use it. If we do or not is down to us, but it is their, just waiting to be used. OK, it may not be flying half way around the world, it may be just visiting the old or in need, helping the poor in our own districts or take the even easier option of putting our hand in our pockets and loaning someone $25, and loan which we have a great chance of being repaid, but we can all do something. It is said that the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil could set off a storm in Texas, so one could never think that any act of kindness, however small, will not make a difference.

I am just a simple country girl from Lime Hall, Rock River, Jamaica. At school I was told I was just stupid and would always be that way. I was just passed by. It was only years later while studying to be a midwife that I was tested for, and found out that I was dyslexic. Being able to use the skills that God has given me has enabled me to make a change. Gandhi said ‘Be the change you wish to see in the world’. I know we all want to make the world a better place; it just seems sometimes that the task is too tall. When I feel this way I remember that ‘To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world’.

Once again thank you for your words of love and support,

Yours in Christ

Yvonne x

Bless