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Collect heart points and exchange them for gifts in the program Heart for a Heart. To view your heart collection, enter the email address you registered while making purchases for Kasisi.
Her entire hundred-year life was an expression of love fully given to others. Today, our beloved Sister Jolanta has gone to her eternal rest.
In 1945, she arrived at Kasisi as a girl not yet twenty years old. She came to Zambia with one simple dream: to give her heart to those who needed love and closeness the most. Kasisi became her home forever. For nearly 80 years, she raised generation after generation of Kasisi children. She remembered unimaginably difficult times, when the only relief for a child suffering from hunger was a teaspoon of sugar water. She witnessed a changing world, but her arms remained a constant, safe haven for hundreds of little hearts.
Even when, in her final years, her body began to fail her, she never lost her sense of humour. With a walking stick in one hand and supported by the arm of one of her grown-up charges, she would laugh and say that “she has it good in life – a stick on one side, a young man on the other, and off we go!” To the very end, the words most often heard from her were: “Life is beautiful.”
Thanks to your kindness, Sister Jolanta was able to celebrate her beautiful 100th birthday with the knowledge that her life’s mission had borne fruit. She saw our pantry shelves fully stocked, hundreds of children receiving an education, and our clinic developing into a place where medicines are no longer in short supply.
There are people whose passing leaves a hole in our hearts, but in Sister Jolanta’s case, above all, we feel a profound sense of gratitude. We believe that wherever she is now, there will never be a shortage of coffee candies, and that the smile with which she warmed the hearts of children at Kasisi for decades is now lighting up the whole heaven.
Thank you, Sister Jolanta, for every hand you held, every prayer you said, and for teaching us how to live a beautiful life. We believe that you can finally rest now.
And if the world is beautiful, then the place you have gone to must be even more beautiful.
Today, we do not say goodbye. Instead, we say: Until we meet again in heaven, our beloved Sister!
A school kit includes notebooks, allowing children to study at home. It also includes a pair of shoes, which, if not for Kasisi, they would have to borrow from their siblings. And finally, a delicious, healthy sandwich in the backpack, which gives them the energy they need for their studies. Just like the sandwich their mother would prepare. You can pack one into their backpack today—from right here, from your own home.
