African boy's plight spurs donation from Las Palmas girl

From Rev. Michael W. Ridgway via  Off 68:

A 12-year-old African boy who could well have lived and died unknown to any American is being mourned locally by members of the Episcopal church — and particularly by 11-year-old Holly Kasten of Las Palmas Ranch.

Holly, who has epilepsy, was feeling glum about a prolonged seizure she had experienced while swimming when she heard a sermon this past summer by the Right Rev. Mary Gray-Reeves, bishop of the Diocese of El Camino Real.

The bishop described an encounter she had had with a boy named Sadiki while she was traveling on church business in Tanzania with two other bishops.

When the Land Rover the bishops were riding in stopped briefly in the road, Sadiki came racing out of the bush, trying to sell sugar cane. His face was terribly disfigured — it "was one, open, oozing sore," Gray-Reeves said in an interview last week — and a visible expression of horror on her own face caused the driver to speed off.

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