{"id":2516,"date":"2013-07-28T20:37:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T18:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2013-07-28T20:37:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T18:37:36","slug":"when-charity-kills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/28\/when-charity-kills\/","title":{"rendered":"When Charity Kills"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i><em><a title=\"Jacek Rakowdki\" href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/jacek-rakowski.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-364 alignright\" alt=\"Jacek Rakowski\" src=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/jacek-rakowski.jpg?resize=184%2C305\" width=\"184\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jacek-rakowski.jpg?w=1184&amp;ssl=1 1184w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jacek-rakowski.jpg?resize=181%2C300&amp;ssl=1 181w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jacek-rakowski.jpg?resize=619%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 619w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jacek-rakowski.jpg?resize=768%2C1271&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jacek-rakowski.jpg?resize=928%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 928w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jacek-rakowski.jpg?resize=900%2C1490&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a>By <strong>Jacek Rakowdki, M.Afr<\/strong><\/em><\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address><strong>Published in the Saturday Post, Saturday 27 July 2013 <\/strong><\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>Most people remember very well a moment or an episode in their lives, which was a turning point. (\u2026) It happened (to me) 10 years ago. I had just arrived in the country, form my native Poland, to continue my training with the Missionaries of Africa in Kasama. I was in Cairo Road, looking for an Internet Caf\u00e9 from where I could call my family to tell them I had arrived safely. I found one but at the door, lying on the pavement, there was a child. The only way for me to enter into the shop would have been to step over his body. But I couldn\u2019t. I froze and I moved to the other side of the street and went back home. That night th<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>e vision of that boy came back to haunt me time and again. <a title=\"When charity kills\" href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/p1090119.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2647 alignleft\" alt=\"P1090119\" src=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/p1090119.jpg?resize=230%2C329\" width=\"230\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/p1090119.jpg?w=674&amp;ssl=1 674w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/p1090119.jpg?resize=210%2C300&amp;ssl=1 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a>On the <\/i><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>following morning, I went back to the shop and the child was awake, standing and begging. Unable to communicate, I just took him by the hand, led him to a fast food and bought him something to eat. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>Today I would not encourage anyone to do that but that\u2019s what happened to me on that fateful encounter which threw open a door on a world I only knew through readings and movies.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><a title=\"When Charity Kills\" href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/when-charity-kills-text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>READ MORE<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jacek Rakowdki, M.Afr Published in the Saturday Post, Saturday 27 July 2013 Most people remember very well a moment or an episode in their lives, which was a turning point. (\u2026) It happened (to me) 10 years ago. I had just arrived in the country, form my native Poland, to continue my training with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,22,28,38],"tags":[127,493],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice-and-peace","category-news","category-publications","category-zambia-sector","tag-antislavery-campaign","tag-enslavement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}