My Story

I am the mother of Disela telling her story while her information is being updated by Adopt a Child team. Disela is 15 years old and her birthday is on January. She was born with mental illness, but her condition is not too bad. She is a happy teen, in her temperament even that she has mental illness and she is not able to see life as we see it. Disela likes to become a teacher. She goes to high school with her friends, and the teachers give to her individually the lessons in the way that she would understand them. When the team of Adopt a Child does Bible classes, the teachers include her in doing different things to help and she gets very excited for this kind of involvement. All the children like her so she is not feeling down or left alone. She has many friends. We are happy as family that the school and the Adopt a Child are helping us raise this child and see her grow same as all the other children who are

healthy. When Disela comes from school, my other daughter who is younger stays close to her to help her study and while they spend time together doing different things, I have time to deal with cleaning, cooking or to care for our animals and work in the garden. We live in a village that belongs to the district of Pogradec, located in Upper Mokra. The village is not too far from the town, but because of the bad roads, sometimes, we get totally isolated, especially during the winter. Our family consists of four members who are my husband, myself, and our two daughters. The younger sister of Disela is 8 years old. She goes to school and is also registered in the program. My husband and I plant in the land and deal with farming to provide for our living. We planted potatoes and beans this year, and in another portion of land, I planted vegetables. We are not selling products to others, because we spend all of it for consumption. We have a cow and a donkey. Animals are a lot of worth for the people who live in villages and by feeding them, my parents are providing for our family milk, butter, meat and other products for consumption. My husband goes to collect wood in the mountain so that we have enough through the winter. Sometimes my husband sells wood to others, but he earns too less and the income is covering very few of our living costs. We are thankful to the program for the food packages that they deliver to help us constantly. Thank you also for the spiritual activities. God bless you abundantly.

Translated by Martin Rucolli

LW/Adopt a Child Albania.