IMA Bringing Hope: Sharafa

Photo of Sharafa Juma (Middle) and Rahma (right) in April 2010.

By Douglas Bright/IMA

In Tanzania, orphans Sharafa and her younger sister Rahma live in a one-room hut with their widowed grandmother. When an IMA field officer with the Orphans and Vulnerable Children program met them, they had only rags for clothes, and had no access to health care.

Without help, the orphaned sisters would not be able to continue in school and would be susceptible to any number of threats to their health. Their future would be bleak.

IMA met their need for decent clothes and access to health care.

"My grandchildren are now happy, getting health services and playing with other children," the grandmother said while shedding tears. Hope and dignity has been restored to these little girls.

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