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Tapiwa
Tapiwa and her three sisters lost their mother due to high blood pressure and their father to alcoholism. After the death of their parents in 2010 they moved in with their widowed grandmother, who had no source of income, and daily food for the family was a problem. A total of nineteen people lived in her home and life was very difficult. The family was overjoyed when these four little girls came to live at Rafiki Village Zambia in May 2011. Today Tapiwa is in the 6th grade. Tapiwa believes Jesus is the Son of God who died on the cross and now is at the right hand of God. Tapiwa knows the Bible is God's written word—it brings sinners to Jesus. She also believes that God has given her a new heart, saved her, and made her his child. She believes this because she is now able to sometimes do His will. Tapiwa reads her Bible on her own and sometimes reads it to her cottage sisters during family devotions. She prays alone to God. A new hymn Tapiwa has learned is called "He Leadeth Me: O Blessed Thought."
DOB: Jun 30, 2007
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