Mar 30 2007
My Mother
This is my mother, Marie Louise Shauliyabo Kitambala. She was born in 1945 in Kasika, with is in the South Kivu province in the east of Congo near where I live now.
She has 11 children - 6 boys and 5 girls, all still alive (many people lose their children here to illness and disease). I am the oldest.
She has 47 grandchildren, and now lives in Bukavu, a large town just south of Goma.
She taught herself how to read and write so that she could better communicate with her children and her younger brother. All her children, including myself, were educated up to and including university level.
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What a remarkable woman! Thanks for sharing her story.
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Paulin,
Your mother sounds like a very special woman and it’s easy to see how proud you are of your family. I think that it’s quite an accomplishment that all of you have been educated to the level that you are and I mean that as a compliment to all of you and your mother.
Thanks for sharing this with us!
THIS IS A WONDERFUL WOMAN AND SHOULD MAKE US ALL FEEL LIKE WE CAN DO MORE THAN WE DO FOR OUTSELVES AND OTHERS!!!!!
Wow, sounds like you have a wonderful Mother and role model. Congratulations to her and thank you for sharing this story with us. Lisa, California