23. Solution for disabled women

Today was a good day. We are happy Ali and I. We had been looking for 3 weeks for a way to help disabled women without finding the right one.
To make sure that all the women were present at the meeting, we decided to let people know that there would also be a monetary distribution.

We proposed our ideas: we can buy 30 meters of fabrics for the women who have done the training and Tahara will give them the sewing machines that currently unused and useless.
Otherwise we could pay for all their medical treatment with Ali for a whole year. I will leave enough money with him to pay for all the medicines.

They have somewhat of a communist mentality, each of the 30 women must have the same as the others. They wanted a sewing machine and fabric for each of the 30, but only 15 of them had learned to sew.
Among them there are 5 10-year-old girls, one of whom has a mental handicap, one blind woman, one who is very old and 3 who study in Bamako.
For these ten, having a sewing machine is useless, but since this is an association, they insist that everyone must have the same thing, and ask us to complete the number of machines and the purchase of fabric for all.

The problem is that I have to organize the training for the 15 remaining women, get the vehicle and petrol for the collection of the students and finally a teacher to train them. It is really too complicated.

In the end, after distributing the promised money, as we were going away, after saying that I would reflect on what they had told us, they unexpectedly decided to accept the proposal for medical treatment.

I was very happy with this and I sat down to make sure everyone was convinced. I explained that my bike would stay with Ali, and when they needed him, they would just have to call him on the phone and he will go to their homes to take care of them.

Ali will take care of both them and their children. After this clarification, everyone was very happy and realized that their choice had been truly the right one.
They still don’t know how good it will be, but I know, because I have seen how effective Ali’s remedies are every day.

I am very satisfied, because in this way my desire to help holistic doctors to get out of poverty and handicapped women to live better was realized in one move.
“Two birds with one stone” as they say in Italy.

We then went to Zahra and her friends and also told them that they could call Ali for free treatment.
In this way the two groups of disabled people received the same benefits.