The ManicaPost
Morris Mtisi
IN a solidarity and philanthropic gesture with women who lost husbands in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai, widows and single mothers of the Adventist church-Mutare central chapter took their turn to reduce the pain of bereavement of their counterparts in the Kopa area of Chimanimani.
It was Matma Gandhi who said, “The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.”
Albert Schweitzer said, “The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion, and the will to help others.” And Steve Maraboli said, “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
Our own father of African nationalism, Kwame Nkrumah, also said, “Action without thought is empty; thought without action is blind.”
The Adventist widows and single mothers (WISPA) may not know any of the above great thinkers and their signature statements.
Yet, these widows and single mothers have done all they are saying in simple but divine in-quietude.
And to cap it all it was Maya Angelou who said, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
The victims of the devastating tropical cyclone in Chimanimani and Chipinge were left with nothing and in tears will forever remember what both poor and ordinary people did to ignite a spirit of a hopeful and new beginning.
Exactly what WISPA did when they collected clothes, cabbages, kapenta fish and other items to make the Idai Cyclone widows and now single mothers have a platform to begin a new life from.
The WISPA Chimaninamani project chairperson is Evah Madya.
When it is done for God…not for ‘see-me or see-us’ so much rewarding it is, and so much the better!
It is God’s wish that all those who have stretched a hand to help, in one way or another, as indeed the Adventist Mutare WISPA has done, remember not to quickly turn away and forget.
The people of Chimanimani, especially the widows and now single mothers, look forward to their Christian friends and colleagues in the beautiful but painful journey of lonesome existence.
