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Letters from Liberia 1/12/2022

1/12/2022

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January 11, 2022 Monrovia, Liberia
 
I am in awe.  As I write this blog, I am completing 15 years of the Foundation for Women’s service here in Liberia, perfecting our collective impact model, Seats at the Table for Liberia.  Whoever would have thought??
 
I arrived in this impoverished and completely wrecked West African nation on Christmas Eve 2006.  The next day I attended a Christmas party hosted by Ma Frances Mayson and her family for children who had nothing to do on that special day.  There were perhaps 250 children in the family compound.  Amazed by the joy, I captured much by photo.  Every time I turned to take an image, there was Moses.
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I learned that he was 9 years old, had never been to school, was selling water on the street to support his illiterate family.  At the end of the gathering, I said to Ma Frances and family, “If you can find him, I will pay for him to go to school.”  A month later Moses started school in pre-K and was so big that all called him “the K2 Grandpa!”
 
Our connection has been in place ever since that Christmas Day.  Moses is now about to complete his junior year at Gannon University in Erie, PA – and is a star!  He is President of the African Students Association, on the student government council, and so much more… all the while maintaining a 3.0 GPA.  All a God-thing as Moses and I say.

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Today along with his biological family, father Augustine and mother Sarah and brother Prince, we entered the Temple of Justice here in Liberia so I could legally become Moses’ “Mom” and legal guardian.  I am now a Mom for the first time in my life.  I am in awe.
 
These last two years have devastated the world in so many ways – “hor-ri-ble” as my dear sister Dr. Angela Benson says. Yes truly horrible.  AND the light still shines, the goodness happens, the joy prevails… why FFW is in business.

Thank you for holding Moses in the light – and for all those tens of thousands, millions FFW has touched globally these last so many years…  together we have made miracles happen for so many members of our global human family and will continue forever with your help and God’s grace…
 
With gratitude and appreciation and new year’s blessings – and much love from Liberia,

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Deborah Lindholm
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    Deborah Lindhom is the Founder and CEO of the Foundation for Women. For over 20 years she has lived and worked in Africa, India and the United States on issues of poverty, education and microcredit. 
    "​Just a quick note to say how we appreciate all that you are doing in Liberia and wish we could do more to help. We enjoy reading your newsletters which are always so well written.
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