A SRANDED STRANGER GIVES BIRTH AT THE MISSION’S PROPOSED DISPENSARY.
Esther Amiri (21) left Lushoto in Tanzania to look for employment in Dar-es Salaam. She explains that she was immediately employed as a domestic servant by an Indian family and stayed with that family in one of the flats at Kariakoo area.
After working for one week she was allowed to go around. She then got lost and could not immediately remember what flat she was staying in. She says every effort to trace her employer failed.
In yet a final effort to trace her employer, she met one man in the name of Justine Mwita who proposed to have relations with her. She agreed and Mwita took her in the rented house in Kivule where they were happily married. That was in May 2012.
Sometime in August 2012, Mwita with his friends left Kivule saying they were going in Bagamoyo to process the burning of wood in order to get charcoal for sale. He never returned. At that time she was pregnant.
She explains that she stayed without any support from her husband whose whereabouts remains unknown. She depended on the help of her neighbors until she was evicted by the landlord who had not been paid for the rents that were outstanding for several months.
Upon eviction from the house she approached a village local chairperson (Mwenyekiti wa Mtaa) at Kivule who gave her Tz. 1,000/= and told her to report to any Church for help. On Sunday 6th January 2013 she reported at TAG Gospel Champaign Church at Sitakishari and participated in a Sunday mass. She explains that she then approached some church elders at the Church who declined her request for any help. She then remained stranded on the verandas of the nearby shops adjacent to the Mission to Disadvantaged Persons Tanzania Limited ’s proposed Taraja dispensary.
At around 8.00 PM the Mission’s clinical officer Mr. Mshana who happened to be passing there saw her in labour pains and after intensive questioning he decided to accommodate her into a building proposed to be a Taraja dispensary. The building had four beds and mattresses donated to the Mission by Mrs. Suzan Chuwa three days before.
Mr Mshana examined her and found that she was in the second stage of labour pains. He decided to support delivery and at around 2.30 AM she gave birth to a baby girl.. She has named her baby girl Taraja. Efforts to get her relatives to come and take her continue.
Several people and members of the Mission supported her with various types of clothes and meals. In offering support, one member quoted Hebrews 13: 2 saying “Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.”
Below are some photographs taken on day one of the incident with some members of the Mission visiting the first baby to be born at the proposed dispensary.
