Mozambique

So this year I’ve been looking for ways to come alive in a new way with what I do globally. So I barked up the tree of my dear friends in the relief and major disasters department at Food for the Hungry. The next thing I knew I was being deployed with about a 24 hour notice to document the 2nd major cyclone within two weeks in Mozambique. Not only was this devastating in visual ways, it also tested the local’s spirits and stamina.

I was able to see resilience strong and active while watching the largest group of displaced people in the area live in a gym with their families while Unicef, Food for the Hungry, Samaritans Purse, MedAir and Water Mission provided food, clean water and hygiene and dignity kits to the families displaced. It was truly disheartening to watch, but I was so inspired by the joy that they somehow were able to muster up in the midst of tragedy.

There are just some things that we may never understand, and some ways of life that we may never live. All that I know is that there is a reason and we must listen for that reason and be the best that we can with what we have been blessed with. Always seeing out ways to love those around us and those from afar. Not just with what is on us but also within us. We all have something to give we just have to stop and look deep inside.