Chapter 6 - Page 81 - Rhasha's Bed

Company of Africa to pave a driveway from the street to the unloading dock, and he bought an ambulance and hired a driver with E.M.T. (Emergency Medical Transporter) experience. Jim also contracted Buju Construction to build an orphanage and a small morgue. Buju agreed to build fifty more houses identical to the first thirty houses.

   Jim knew people would need new clothes, so he contracted the Buju Construction company to build a facility where new clothes could be stored. The store would become known as The Factory, because so many people would get free clothes there. Finally, Jim hired a female doctor, just out of medical school.

   Jim gave a house to anyone who didn’t have a place to live. He gave food to the hungry and clothes to those who needed them. He sent anyone who needed medical attention to the doctor. Word spread all over Africa about the work Jim was doing, and more people were added to the hospital. The village grew. Children ran and played in the park and swimming pool. The public rest room and shower facilities had frequent visitors. Happy people could be seen all over the village, playing and cutting up. All Jim’s houses were now occupied, and construction was under way on another fifty houses. Some people went to church on Sunday morning, but they did so mostly to please Jim.

   Eventually the doctor put Rhasha on soft food, along with the young woman and her two daughters. Jim spoon-fed Rhasha every day while the nurse spoon-fed the other three. A week later, the doctor allowed Rhasha’s parents to take her home. Rhasha was still bedridden, but the doctor said there was nothing more she could do for her. The mother and her two small children were doing equally well. The doctor would have released them, but they had no one to take care of them.