It’s a pleasure to help people

ust before I left for Europe, I faced bad news on Mama Nzama …
Mama Nzama is a young woman, I helped her last month to obtain birth certificates for her children. With these birth certificates she can apply for a child allowance.
Sometimes I also help her with food that is donated to me and I follow the family a little bit. When I first met her she was very ill and had no job.
Meanwhile she feels a lot better and found a job !!! She works 4 days a week; I was really happy when I heard it.

But then she surprised me with very bad news. The day before I left for Europe she told me that she was HIV positive … BOOOOMMM ...
in my head; this news, just know that everything went well with her and that she earned a living.
I immediately contacted one of the projects where Be More has a volunteer programme, and asked if they could help me and if Mama Nzama could come to them for counselling and medicines.
That was no problem and we made an appointment for the next day, the day that I would leave for Europe.

We arrived at 8 in the morning en Mama Nzama was taken by the arm and guided very friendly to the counselling room. We also brought two of her children to be tested.

I learnt there that before patients start with the medication, they first get a 3 days’ counselling.

PANIC … I was leaving later that day … how would she get here …

It is half an hour drive with the car from where she lives, the poor thing has no money for taxi or transport …
Fortunately, after some back and forth phone calls, rescue was found: she would be brought by a girlfriend of mine …
After the tests, we learnt that the children were NOT infected… YEAH !!!
But .. Mama Nzama had a low CD4 (white bloodcells).
So she had to take IMMEDIATELY medicines to keep the CD4 stable and after a while even increase it again.
Without these medicines, her life expectation would only be one year at the most if she would eat and live in a healthy way …
But fortunately we could prevent this. She is now taking medicines and she will have a monthly follow up. I will drive her there with pleasure every month for counselling and medication.
Greetings from a happy Gunter