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Agogo's story

We met with Agogo at 8:30pm finally after the while day of waiting around. Lights went in the middle of us preparing dinner and we were subjected to sitting in the darkness playing some ridiculous free game Tanya found on her computer. When lights came back we went to meet Agogo in his house. The stars were beautiful and thousands seemed to sparkle in the endless deep blue of the sky. This is probably the most stars I've seen in my life.

Agogo's story was equally amazing. He told us how he was raised as an orphan and thus many years was driven to build an orphanage. He had nothing more than a donation of MK100 ($6 US) and now Home of Hope aids almost 600 orphans and vulnerable children. They don't even have enough money to meet all their needs but somehow they pull through with Raising Malawi as a main sponsor and money sent from their collection of friends worldwide. This institution has such an inspirational story of what can be done with practically nothing. $6 US brought 600 children such a long way, imagine what else can be accomplished. Just like the myriad of stars twinkling that we saw tonight, there are many hidden talents, ideas and great people: we just need to take a step back sometimes to learn their story and appreciate them.