Wearing Only One Plastic Sandal

Author Country :Tanzania
Genre Type :True Story
Location :Mugumu, Tanzania
Year of Publication :NULL/
Publication :NULL
Sub Theme :Children, Helping the Needy, Suffering/Self-Denial/Hardship/
Author Name :Margo Cambier, MMAF/
Author City :Mugumu
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A
young boy and his grandmother came to my house in Mugumu, Tanzania to ask for
a drink of water.
The boy had stepped on a thorn and was limping. Noticing that he was wearing
only one plastic sandal, I asked if that was because of his sore foot. "No," he
replied. "That was all my mother had to give me!’