Virginia Episcopalian Magazine Fall 2012 Issue | Page 14

Something to Smile About: NetsforLife
Emma Wright

As the sun rolled high above
the Tanzanian village of
Pangani, a young girl shyly
emerged from behind
our bus. She watched and
waited. The exchange
went something like this:
we smiled, she smiled; we
waved, she waved; thumbs
up, thumbs up; blew a kiss,
blew a kiss. It took less than
60 seconds for us to make
Emma Wright, the leader of the youth-led Bishops’ NetsforLife
The five teenage
our first friend in Tanzania.
Inspiration Fund in the Diocese of Virginia, participates in a
participants in the diocesan
Catherine spoke only minimal
net distribution.
NetsforLife trip pose with
English, and we spoke even
mosquito netting in a village
less Swahili, yet somehow
in the Diocese of Central
we not only observed
the Lord united us.
Tanganyika, Tanzania.
activities, but we were

A few days earlier, I had traveled nearly 8,000 miles
also able to join the local
to the Diocese of Central Tanganyika (DCT) in Tanzania.
NetsforLife workers and village leaders in their work. Some
The purpose of t H