MY STORY AND PURPOSE

AKA!

WHO AM I?

I am Kapelwa Akatumwa, Zambian born on the 22 of November 1982 from the family of four, two guys and two ladies. We just lived as a family under one shelter for short. This is because my father died, when I was 1year 8months and my grand parents took me from my mum, who died four year later. For this reason I never called any person father, and never had chance to enjoy motherly love. For my sisters and brother, each one was taken by other relatives.

 

AFTER THE ACCIDENT

The accident happened at a place which is away from my home town.

We were four of us in the car and only me hard serious injuries, such that I almost died.

I was taken to the near by clinic where, I spent 7days in comer with just a friend taking care of me. We hard nothing on us since the local people got away with all our belonging which is a common trendy in my country, whenever an accident occurs. After which I was transferred to the bigger hospital.

It was only the time when I reached the bigger hospital that I was able to open my eyes, talk and hear. This was the time I was told of what had happened.

From 8^th December 2005, I have been the hospital boy up to beginning of September 2007. I was in the hospital for such a long time partly because of the pressure sores and partly because my family members didn’t want to take up on the responsibility of patient (pressure sores) and physically disabled person

LIFE IN THE WHEELCHAIR.

During all this time, my relationship with God was not good at all as I couldn’t understand what I was going on and I rely had many questions, like where is God to let me go through this alone, why did it happened to me and why me only since we where four of us in that car.

Many challenges that go through: – include rejection, not doing things the way I used to do them and depending on people most things I want to. Being in a developing country(Zambia) its difficult to find employment as employers don’t look at what I can do but my disability, and we have no good laws to help me(disabled person) get a job.

MY COMING BACK TO GOD

My life changed when I meat a friend called Heiko, who had time to listen to what had happened to me and then invited me to alive television church program. Then after he told me about the love for God, and two weeks later he took me with him for church service and from then I have been going with him to church with the difficulties of accessing places with the wheelchair, he has been their for and shows me that, even if I am disabled same people still look at me as a person and I look at him as my real brother.

MY GO AND PURPOSE

My plan is to help and be the ambassador for people living with disability in my country.