Josephine

So I've been going to the hospital a couple times a day to check on the girls there and yesterday one of the mothers told me more about herself. She is an orphan who is taking care of all her younger siblings.  She has two children, one is four and one is two and a half.  Her husband was killed in an accident when she was pregnant with the second.When she was younger she was advanced in school and was invited to study at an English speaking school here in Northern Uganda. She got to the end of primary school (about the age of 13 or 14 probably.  But then had her first daughter and had to leave school.  Here's the other thing, secondary school is way more expensive than primary and most people can not afford it.  It is 270,000 a year.  The equivelant of $142.11. Which, in the villages, is unheard of.

There was a man from Italy who had agreed to pay for her and her brothers to finish their schooling (which goes up to about age 20).  He was willing to support them (I believe that both she and her brothers are rather intelligent) but right before he did, he was killed by the LRA.  They got nothing.  Josephine would like to go to vocational school (which costs less than $120/year) so she can at least learn tailoring and make some money for them.  She seemed to say that she would like to go back to secondary but doesn't have the money to even consider it.

Here's the thing that amazed me, with everything that she said she expressed how much faith she has in God.  "God didn't will for my husband to stay with us."  "God took away my parents but didn't abandon us."  "The man who was going to pay wasn't chosen by God to be able to help us."  "I wake up and if God wills, I will find work for the day and will eat; if not - I will wait until the next day and see if it's in His plan for me to get work."  "Maybe someday God will provide a way to go to school, but if not now, that is going to be okay."  I can't even imagine not being bitter about everything that has happened to her but she has absolutely complete faith that God is on her side.

What an amazing human being.