The woman who heads the area Anglican diocese has a question nagging at her, a question she spoke about passionately during a recent sermon at St. John’s the Baptist Episcopal Church in the Seacliff area.
That question is whether a 12-year-old Tanzanian boy named Sadiki would still be alive if she had not encountered him one day, in March, in a remote area of that East African country.
Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves told of that brief encounter movingly and with self-reproach.
It is a story that changed her life, the boy’s life and struck a chord with many others, Gray-Reeves said. It is undeniably tragic, yet growth has sprung from it.
The chance meeting with a disfigured child — an epileptic scarred and infected after falling into a cooking fire during a seizure — has led to a campaign by church members in the diocese to provide solar cooking classes, scholarships and other help to the boy’s village.
I am glad witnessing poverty and its effects first hand has touched Marry’s heart.
But I wonder about this part of the statement:
“has led to a campaign by church members in the diocese to provide solar cooking classes…”
Can anyone tell me if “solar cooking” really works and is it at all practical? I admit of only hearing about it but as an engineer I can’t imagine anyone in a developing country would want to bother.