Why challenges of life are meant to make us stronger. (Part Two)

In continuation of the blog of how our challenges in life can bring out the best in us, I am writing about another HIV-positive human rights activist Maxensia Nakibuuka who is from Uganda. She talked about her experience after she lost her husband to AIDS in 1999. How she lost her job because of his death and the other attendant consequences of the stigmatization that followed. According to her she was down, sickly with no hope of bringing up her children. However with the help of a caring Christian community with support from the Global fund and the US Pepfar fund, she and her family were offered treatment, support and counseling from religious leaders.
In appreciation for all what was done for her she devoted herself to become part of the activism to end HIV and offered her own premises to be used as a clinic that offers treatment, mobilizes women, men and youth to do care-given from house to house, follow up patients who are on treatment, advise on nutrition, and other support services.
The point of this story is that she used her challenges in life to empower others. If she had not passed through that challenge of HIV, she will never know the power in her that is capable of doing what she did.
The last person I will mention is Crystal Chigbu, the brain behind Irede foundation in Nigeria. She founded it after the harrowing experience of seeing her little daughter lose her limb after suffering from a missing kneecap at birth with consequent amputation because of the infection of the limb. After that the daughter started using artificial limbs and it was what she as a mother passed through that made her to vow to provide solution to children in similar situation.
In order to help children in similar situation with an artificial limb which cost a lot of money, she has to source for fund from friends, kind hearted people from all over the world who go out of their way to give their widow's mite to see children fulfilling their dreams in life.
Since she started the foundation, she has been able to help a lot of children acquire artificial limb, the mobility they experience being a source of joy for them.
These two women just like the others I mentioned before turned their challenges into solution and a means of helping others instead of focusing alone on their loss and pain.
Once again the question is what is your loss? What is the pain you had passed through? Are you going to let the lesson learned to go with you when you die. Can you make the world a better place by empowering others to face their challenges with strength with your own story? Women like Oprah Winfrey, empowers others with their life story. Others shares their story on twitter like Kimhill csa Survivor @mystorykh83 and Angela @TherapyAfterCSA of being childhood abuse survivors and how they are both trying to heal as well as help others overcome similar past.
The important thing is to try our best to give to others after all one of the holy books says there is more happiness in giving than in receiving. What experience will you like to share with others? It will be appreciated if you share your story of survival for the benefit of mankind.