-a Climb for Glory-the film

-a Climb for Glory-the film

-the embrace of Glory as i climb Mt. Kilimanjaro Jan 2011

There is a 16 year old girl i met while i was doing research for the SANDY project in October of 2010,her name is Glory and as soon as i met her i new i was supposed to change her life. To look at her you would think she is about 10 years old because of the the size of her body and its limited growth due to the retardation she had experienced both psychical and mentally. She has never been able to walk or talk or hold anything in her hands or do any thing for herself whatsoever , she completely relies on others for all aspects of care. But she does have a personality, if you sing softly into her ear she will smile and begin to do her version of a laugh. Her life before i found her consisted of her laying on her back

on a thin piece of foam on the floor for 10-12 hours per day with the flies crawling all about her face and mouth and there is nothing for her to do except stare at the ceiling and try and blink the flies away.

When Glory was 1 year old the doctors told her mother that she would not live past 2 years old . Glory was 6 years old when her brother was born ( perfectly normal and healthy) and after this is when her father decided life was too difficult for him to deal with so he did what he thought was best for the family-- he just left them all behind. After her father left, her mother struggled so hard to house and feed the children but was failing and caused them to have to live and sleep in a small shack shared with cows. After some years of going from place to place her mother was finally able to learn how to make a profit by selling tomato's at the market. She would leave early in the morning and go to a local farm and pick the tomato's herself and pay a price to the farmer (wholesale) Next she would go to the market and try and sell those tomato's, she paid $10 and ended up selling at $14--- so her income for that day was $4-- but at what cost? the stress of the thoughts wondering if her daughter was OK alone in the house without anyone to care for her.

So when i found Glory as i was doing research for the SANDY project i worked very hard to be sure that this child would not have to spend another moment alone and her mother could work with confidence knowing her daughter was safe.

That takes us to this moment now. I am filming a short documentary about the life of Glory and everyone around her past, present and future. During the filming i will be climbing to the peak of

Mt. Kilimanjaro (6193M) also filming the climb as i will have glory strapped securely to my back.

Why would i want to do this? reason number 1-- Glory needs money to survive and i have given her all of mine so i now need the help of others. reason number 2- she may not be able to say thank you but i can see it in her eyes so my gift to her is to take her to the top of the highest mountain in all of Africa and see what God can do to help this child.

As an example- the house rent for Glory and her mother a brother for one month is about $15 or $180 per year and food for the 3 of them per day is about $3 about $1095 per year and school fees for her brother is about $50/year- so as you can see it takes almost $1500.00 USD to sustain the life of these 3 people not including and medical expenses that may come about ,but, when health care is pay first not many people go to the Doctor they just stay home and die.

This to many may seem like a small amount of money but to this struggling and suffering family is means the difference between life and death.

So here i am begging for someone , anyone to please help me help this family. If 15 people donated $100 each then this goal would easily be accomplished bot of many people gave just a little then over a short time all of that would add up. I hope your life is all you hoped it to be, i know Glory is happy because she is loved and she has made a lasting impression on me forever.