Howard Pym was traveling a long distance in Sierra Leone with his good friend, Janis and a couple of his pals.
A Sierra Leone A Road!
Howard was driving from freetown to kenema. Here, mr pym met with a local chief.
4 hours into the journey, traveling in very hot and dusty conditions howard came upon a crossroads, and to everybody’s delight, there was a lady sitting on the floor with some pineapples
by her side. Howard stopped abruptly and asked the lady if her pineapples were for sale. Howard said ‘thankfully, she answered yes’.
Howard bought a couple of pineapples and asked the lady if she would kindly prepare them as hey were going to eat them there and then!
It wasn’t long before a large group of young children came running towards Howard and his friends.
Here Come The kids!
Howard, if not an international businessman, would have been a magician!
As soon as the children arrived, Howard went back to the jeep and produced a box with some magic tricks
inside.
Howard started to sow some of his ‘world class’ magic tricks for the children, when he felt a tugging on his trouser leg. The tugging was being done by a tiny little girl just old enough to walk. Howard picked the little girl up in his arms and started to feed her some of the pineapple. By this time a much larger crowd of people had gathered and there was lots of noise and laughter .
Laughing At Howard
After a few moments, a local police officer came to Howard and asked if i would like to keep the little girl. Howard replied ‘no, the baby belongs with its mother’.
Howard, then asked the police officer why a mother would want to give up her child to a complete stranger, the police officers reply was, ‘To give the little girl a better chance in life than she could give it herself’.
Howard commented that It makes him sad to think that so many of us have so much when others have so little.
In closing Howard said, ‘Sierra Leone needs all our help. There are many people all over the world in the same mind as this lady. We all want the best for our children’.
