Project 6: Photo Nº2: The mother who takes care of you.

The mother who takes care of you.

by Álvaro del Río.

DiminaJasiala is the woman in the picture and she is a beautiful woman, she´s holding a baby in a purple sweater and with two cute pink tiny socks. She is wearing a bright golden dress, golden like the sun, golden like  hope.

 Her face is turned with a caring look in her eyes, the kind of caring look that mothers have when they see their children playing . You should know that she always carried that look since the late 80s due to the fact that she hashad more than three hundred and fifty children. Her story is a story of hope and kindness in the poorest neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya.

   Her story began in 1998 when she had been working as a housekeeper for 19 years and having four children, she found a little baby in the rubbish and decided to take care of her. After that she started receiving abandoned children even the ones whose mothers had AIDS. Dimina and a few neighbours decided to turn their home  into a home for street children and make sure that they receivedan education, even though Dimina is illiterate. That´s why she is best known as MamáTunza which in suajili means "the mother that takes care of you".

   That´s why she is a beautiful and strong woman, because she made that by herself and by the kindness of one of the poorest neighborhoods in the world that supported her until 2007 when aan NGO finally started supporting her. This is only one example of what Africa is capable of, because it is the forgotten land and it shouldn´t be, so next time you think of Africa think about this and all the things that it can teach you.