Mondesa to USA, USA to Mondesa
September 8, 2010 by Karey
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I have a story to tell you: A delightful email showed up in my inbox this morning from my South Aftrican friend, Sue, whom I met for the first time in August when she flew out from Namibia for her daughter Angela’s wedding. Sue works at an after school program in Namibia, called Mondesa Youth Opportunities. I’ve known Angela since the day she arrived from South Africa four or five years ago, when my husband and I picked her up at the airport after an impossibly long flight in the middle of January and 17 degree weather. She had come to run for BYU after he recruited her at the World Juniors in Beijing. How can it be it was that long ago? My my.
Well, since Angela and her team mates spent so much time at airports during competion, she got her running teammates to knit scarves for her mother’s learners (or students) at Mondesa Youth Opportunities, and that blossomed into letters and emails going back and forth between the athletes and learners at the school.
Before Sue left the states to head home, I gifted her and the MYO school library with several copies and audiobooks of Secret Speakers and the Search for Selador’s Gate, along with a few handmade posters I’d made for the students. Today’s email showing the scarves shows the posters I made in the background, which made me feel like cheering. I feel such a love for those students, and I hope they feel it through the little posters I made. It’s the best I felt I could do without being there in person.
