I just wanted to share with everyone something that touched my heart (which is quite rare).
In Sierra Leone, at the front lines of the Ebola battle, it's hell. There are make-shift clinics and hospitals overcrowded with dying people. They have to try to predict how many people will die overnight each night so they can get ready to fill those beds first thing in the morning.
Anyway, in one such clinic, nurses were dieing from Ebola monthly, giving their lives to help others. Finally, the head nurse died. So Nancy Yoko took her spot, fearlessly barking orders and trying to save as many people as she could. She worked 14 hours a day, every day, nursing the sick, and even praying for and talking with them. After three months of that, she too died a little over a week ago.
That is a hero. Working in the most discouraging of circumstances, taking the place of someone who died, working with other people who are dieing... but still going until she gave her life.
How many people know her name? How many times has she been on the news? Think of who we call Heroes, and 'great people'... most of them hardly deserve it. Yet the true heroes are the ones that no one notices.
Well today I wanted to do my part and tell everyone of how heroic this "nobody" was, and about the respect she deserves. remember her name, Nancy Yoko.
I just wanted to share with everyone something that touched my heart (which is quite rare).
In Sierra Leone, at the front lines of the Ebola battle, it's hell. There are make-shift clinics and hospitals overcrowded with dying people. They have to try to predict how many people will die overnight each night so they can get ready to fill those beds first thing in the morning.
Anyway, in one such clinic, nurses were dieing from Ebola monthly, giving their lives to help others. Finally, the head nurse died. So Nancy Yoko took her spot, fearlessly barking orders and trying to save as many people as she could. She worked 14 hours a day, every day, nursing the sick, and even praying for and talking with them. After three months of that, she too died a little over a week ago.
That is a hero. Working in the most discouraging of circumstances, taking the place of someone who died, working with other people who are dieing... but still going until she gave her life.
How many people know her name? How many times has she been on the news? Think of who we call Heroes, and 'great people'... most of them hardly deserve it. Yet the true heroes are the ones that no one notices.
Well today I wanted to do my part and tell everyone of how heroic this "nobody" was, and about the respect she deserves. remember her name, Nancy Yoko. 
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