Bad Side of Poverty / Life E-Book

Foster Hanzala

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 122

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Most people in Africa are experiencing poverty, and poverty is in many forms e. g., poverty of the mind and hunger, some due to poverty the commit suicide, some are rejected in their families because of poverty, some have lost hope. Where do we miss it? God in this book of the Bad side of Poverty comes through to comfort those who have lost the hope of a better tomorrow. God is telling us the way to come out of the situation. God in his plan for humanity, doesn't want to see his children suffering and he is giving the way out of this. In many instances, the poor are treated badly in society and God wants his children to live in harmony. Read more about over coming - you are enough - you can do it - suicides thoughts - Strangle of African woman - how the rich an the poor live in Africa - how poverty and beliefs affect the people - when life hurts and many more. The storm will not last forever, but it will definitely come to pass. It's an interesting and worth book to read

Leseprobe

Inhalt

ACKNOWLDGEMENT

INTRODUCTION

POVERTY AND BELIEF

RELIGION, MIND AND POVERTY

BAD SIDE OF POVERY / LIFE

CROSS ROAD

WHEN LIFE HURTS

YOU CAN DO IT.

SUICIDE

FOCUS

YOU ARE ENOUGH

STRUGGLE OF AN AFRICAN WOMAN

RICH AND POOR IN AFRICA

WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT GIVING TO THE POOR

ACKNOWLDGEMENT

No one authors a book all by oneself and reads it. This is certainly true in this case of the Bad Side of Poverty / life (an African Story) has come to be not through my ideas alone, but because of the many other people who gave their time, what Africa is passing through especially those in the high-density areas and remote. This book has come because of the relationship with Dr. Siegfried Grillmeyer, who have produced it and who opened my minds through what they do and their works towards the less privileged in the society. My wife Chimweta Mazuba Hanzala and my Son Mikel Hanzala has been a source of encouragement in writing this book. I thank my God for giving me a gift of life and letting me put these ideas into a book. It has not been easy for eight months of writing this book.

I thank my Parents Mr & Mrs Leonard Hanzala; may God bless all who help me.

INTRODUCTION

If you have never been held between Poverty, Religion or Belief. Read this book and you will understand that poverty does for more harm to a mind which thinks of churches as the only source of miracle.

Every time I tell someone, I believe in your future, you were not born to be poor, you may have been born poor but you were not born to be poor, you may been brought up poor but you were not brought up to be poor and understand this the definition of adulthood is responsibility, when you become an adult you take responsibility for your future, you become responsible. Playing soccer was the main activity in the compound, a plastic soccer ball made from ourselves. I grew up in a catholic home were every night before going to bed we would gather as a happy family and pray together, “a family that prays together stays together’’.

Although we were a Prayerful family, I grew up very stubborn, born from a family of six, two boys. In 2004, I made it to grade 10 which I passed to Mukasa Minor seminary in Choma, Zambia that’s the time I developed ulcers. I didn’t manage the boarding life due to the same problem of stomach; I came back to St Edmund’s secondary school in Mazabuka, Zambia I adapted the environment back to my friends. The same year my mum had a stroke, got paralyzed on the left part. Mum was taken to the hospital, Mazabuka hospital in Zambia. Was discharged after a week and not much improvement and I asked God for a favour of which I know it wasn’t a favour but that’s what he does to his children doing good things.

I went to assumption parish, Mazabuka, Zambia and I prayed. I told God please heal mum and let her return to her former duties’ asked God if you heal her and you heal me from the ulcers. I promise in this very house, your house I will work for the betterment of your kingdom. I will do whatever it takes for you to help people through me and I cried in the house of God. I went back home with a disappointed face expecting God right there to answer me. Our lives changed the things mum used to do no longer doing them like she used to do. After a month and some weeks, she started walking a normal way and doing some small thing and after few months she recovered fully, thanks to God for the healing hand and a was healed from ulcers too, from that time I decided to work with God, and I was sixteen. I started isolating myself from bad friends, I knew from that moment that God has done his part it’s time I do my part. When you decide to do something for God, the devil will attack you and convince you that you can’t manage, leave this work to people who are qualified for this and I answered to myself that God doesn’t call the qualified, but he qualifies the called. When God wants to use you, he will make sure, he changes your heart.

POVERTY AND BELIEF

The community never really believed in God a lot but in traditional.

the above picture shows a bicycle with a swarm of bees, the man just parked the bicycle, but someone sent bees to him. This is the kind of community I was dealing with.

The community which believes in traditional a lot and things which are not of God, I had a challenge, but I believed God will eventually remain victorious.

I started helping the altar boys with teaching them the word of God and serving in church with the help of the parish priest but the liturgy people member were against me helping the altar boys but they wanted someone who was born and raised in the perish this was in 2013 June’s tried to stand the pressure with the liturgy members, they chosen someone who had no background of altar boys but got converted 2 years ago from salvation army to catholic.

From there I started moving in the community teaching and sharing the word of God but at first, I was upset when I was removed as a mentor for the altar servers, I asked God am I not worthy to serve in church. I told God I don’t want to work for you, but I want to collaborate with you. I don’t want to be your worker, but I want you to work through me.

Two months down the line the altar servers complained to the parish priest that the mentor you choose didn’t know the alter boys’ prayer and things used in the mass. This time the parish priest was a different one FR Gerald he called me told me everything and said the altar boys mentioned your name FOSTER and asked to help them.

I accepted and began teaching them they were incredibly happy, and the priest was happy too, a year passed and the same members who were against me started the fight. Where I used to go for mass was a school church called Fatima centre not really a perish.

We normally had mass twice a month and twice a month service, the people who were conducting the service, would come to church drunk and stand in front of congregation. You would hear one of the members saying you are new here and you cannot change anything if you want to die go ahead and resist. I told them these words “when I discovered that I had a heart I gave it to God and my life, I cannot fear anything.” I cannot fear anything. I recalled Jeremiah 29: 27 I’m the God of all human fresh is there anything too hard for me. After two days they were surprised that I still insisted to go ahead with the alter boys’ program.

They insisted that I stop, and I Joined the youth group, and we went on well and we progressed in all activities.

In the community some people believed that they could become great farmers if they used traditional charms. I came to know all the corner and everything the community believed and not believed.

The community had little knowledge about the word of God, polygamy was common, you would find one man marries four or five wives, you try to advice that the word of God doesn’t allow one man to marry two or more wives.

They marry many but some they do not support their families, it’s a lady or a wife working so hard to support the family, a man just comes to eat what the wife has provided in this economic hardship. They said if they are one product in the market people fight for it but when there are two products in the market products fight for people. They take this to their advantage as husbands, that since we have two wives they will be fighting for his love and the husband will enjoy the love and the marriage.

The children are being supported by a woman, school wise and other things. When its rain season, you will find that they have already sold the field to other people instead of themselves planting so that they harvest, they sale the fields as early as June and in Zambia rains season starts in November and you will find the family is suffering no food, feeding from hand to mouth. I came to understand that poverty in the community where I lived was poverty of the mind. I asked one man, don’t you plant maize (is a cash crop and used as staple food in Zambia). When its rain season. he told me that he doesn’t have money to buy seeds, but he has goats, chickens, and cows. Why don’t your sale one goat to buy maize seed and fertilizer he told me that it’s not his goats or cows. Then I told him, but you have a field right, he answered yes and cattle you are allowed to use, he said yes. Why don’t you approach one of the people who you always sale the field to and tell that lets partner with each other. You provide seed and fertilizer, and I will provide the labour and the field then after harvesting if we harvest like eighty bags of 50 kgs then give me thirty bags and fifty bags are yours. Then sale your fifteen bags and raise about € 115 when you can deposit in the cooperative and be given ten bags of fertilizer and seeds for the coming farming season. Then you can be on your own and he said I cannot do that I then asked him why you can’t start a garden and he said I don’t have seeds and I went in the house I gave him seeds after a week I asked him did you plant he said there isn’t enough water in the well. I told him that its high time you stood as a man and fight for your family not your wife. To my surprise he went on to have a girlfriend outside marriage, but he is falling to provide for the family, his wife was our house help she would complain the husband is not providing for the family not buy soap, washing paste, mealie meal and other things he leaves them to me to provide them as a wife. I went to their place with my wife and prayed and talk to them then the man promised to change and start supporting the family after a month a man started behaving the usual coming home Mid night and sometimes early morning. His wife said I cannot to take it anymore and the wife decided to leave the husband, but we tried to talk to the wife not to make decision when she is angry because the outcome will not be good, but the wife insisted that am leaving she said bye to us the HANZALA family and the following morning she left with her children.

After three weeks the husband followed her and she was brought back but this time, the wife had no were to work as a house helper since that time she left she told us to look for a helper as she was not coming back to the Village she was going for good.

My usual day would start with a prayer in the meaning I used to go to the mountain or church catholic. I asked God to use me, let me be a vessel to the needy. I looked around and can I be of help to the people, I decided to do for the aged. I went to see one aged man and decided to renovate the house.

We need think, how do I relate with people do I give a helping hand to people in need, that what, feed my minds are the things which will come to reality.

My friend God can bless anybody, and nobody is special than anyone. In life to be successful you need to find a goal or a passion, asked a certain man who was watching soccer in the village (village soccer) what’s the best definition of a goal he said, “a goal is a dream with a deadline.” That was a brilliant answer I need to come with a crucial point. Before you start writing down your goals, you’d better know what your dream is or what you hope to be. Otherwise, you might find yourself headed for a destination you never wanted to get to in the first place.

I came to realize that it’s the mind that makes someone to do well in life once you convince yourself. I met a priest who told me that “it destines matters what you have now, you can do something that will change your tomorrow, it doesn’t matter how you were born that was yesterday, it doesn’t matter what happened in the last five months or year you may not be able to change that you can reposition yourself. Today, you can make new decisions today refused to be a mental hobby do something that will change what your tomorrow will look like and refuse to be a mental hobble, refuse to end your life on the sidewalk.

RELIGION, MIND AND POVERTY

In Africa Christianity was introduced by the missionaries and we came to accept and adopt it as a good thing. When they came to Africa, they brought a bible and a Skill to survive not just reading the bible but also doing the needed work to earn a living but to some, the religion and Christianity has become a business.