One of my fellow volunteers, a girl from Tanzania, seemed a bit desperate, so I asked what the problem was. She told me she had a friend back home, who was, really 1 with her university studies. It was beginning to look like financial difficulties, which would make it 2 for her to complete her course.
So this friend of mine had done something 3: she had sent all her pocket money for the month to Tanzania to 4 her friend! This meant that she didn't have much food to eat, no money to go anywhere outside the village, no money to buy any clothes, and so on.
I was so 5 that she did this for her friend and I felt I had to do something. So, 6 my next trip to one of the nearby towns I walked into the fair trade shop to buy some food. I didn't have much money left myself but I thought I'd buy her an extra box of the muesli we both liked and some rice. I started talking to the woman 7 in the shop, who was also a volunteer and 8 told her about my friend.
The woman looked at me, 9"Does she eat pasta?" she asked. "Yes," I replied. She immediately started to fill a bag with pasta, cookies, more muesli, sweets and other things until the bag was full. "Give her this for me. It's my 10!" I couldn't believe it but cried with 11.
I left the shop to go home with my 12 bag of food, I asked the woman her name. "Just Gloria! God bless both of you!" she said. Imagine my friend's face when I arranged the gifts on my kitchen table. I have never seen her so happy! A few weeks later, she found Gloria in the shop and thanked her 13.
These two 14 women really showed me what true kindness and compassion is, and the 15 will stay with me for the rest of my life!
