Efgenia
EFGENIA’S STORY
Heavenlight writes: Efgenia is 30 yrs old, a mother of a 3yr old girl named Lorena. They are from Moshi another town in Tanzania near Arusha. Efgenia was born with HIV. She was raised by her grandmother after her mother passed away. She did nott know where her father was. When her grandmother died she was taken care of by her brothers but all three of them died in two years and she was left alone without any one to care for her. One of the neighbors took her in and she lived with them until she met someone who told her about her father. She decided to go meet her father and he loved and cared for her but only for about a year and then he passed away also. She went back to the neighbor who had cared for her. Later she came to Arusha to work as a house girl in the neighbor’s daughter’s house. She worked there until she met a man who loved her regardless of her situation {being HIV Positive}. They were living together and after sometime she became pregnant. About a year after the first baby she got pregnant again but this time had a miscarriage and the hospital did a complete hysterectomy. A few months later the man went to his hometown to get things ready so they could get married but during the night he had severe stomach pains and died. The man’s family came and sold everything in the house where they had been living together, They told her they don’t recognize her and her daughter as part of their family because their son had never introduced her to them, so they didn’t want to help her in any way. Efgenia was left alone again without anyone to help her. Finally she decided to go back to the house where she had worked as a house keeper,. There someone told her about Neema Village.
The plight of children born with HIV and women married to men with AIDs places these families in dire situations. Alone, they make poor choices and the children always suffer. It is not our place to judge, we are here to help and to love. You can join us as we try to be Jesus to the poor and hurting of this world.