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Elderly African couple sits outside a hut, holding hands with heads bowed, in a painted style.

Elderly African couple sits outside a hut, holding hands with heads bowed, in a painted style.

Papa Ofori, and his wife Mama Ofeibea sat hand in hand on a creaky wooden stool, their heads bowed low in prayer. They had been at it since sunset. "Lord," Papa Ofori whispered, his voice cracking like the brittle rafters above him, "you said You’d never leave us nor forsake us... Please, let someone remember us this weekend." Mama Ofeibea tightened her grip on his frail hand. The roof had leaked again that morning… a slow, cold drip that found its way through the clay ceiling and into their rice pot. Worse yet, Papa Ofori had run out of his medication the night before. See more