Agnes Chimbayo, from Malawi, Africa. Agnes is currently in the United States on a sabbatical from her work as a Canossian sister. She told me of the heartbreaking starvation of the people she was serving in a village in Tanzania. Just two weeks ago she received a letter from Tanzania describing how the drought was so bad, some people were eating grass. They were picking the grass and making soup out of it.
Some families are lucky to have a modest harvest of sweet potatoes growing now.
They have sweet potatoes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Agnes told me she wept to read the letter. She told me that one day when she was there, a mother was waiting silently for food outside the sisters' residence. Agnes told her they had no food to give then went to chapel, and when she returned the mother was still standing there. She could hear her four children crying of hunger in their little home.