If we will have the fool notion of that she has something that cannot be carried through, because of many obstacles and difficulties, let us consider the history that if follows, of an African youngster, Legson Kayira, that was published in the Guideposts magazine. This amazing history is called “Bare-footed until America”.
“Its mother wise person nde was not America. E it said to it: Mother, I want to go similar America to frequent the college.
Of - me its permission? “Very well - it said can go. When part? It did not want to give time to discover to it through other people of the village where they lived, how much America was distant from there, fearful of that he moved of opinion. “Tomorrow it said. “Very I answered the mother well I prepared a little of maize you to eat in the way. In the following day, 14 of October of 1958, left its house in the village of Mpale, to the north of the Niasalândia, Eastern Africa. But with the clothes of the body, a khaki shirt and shorts. It took two treasures that belonged to it: the Bible, and a unit of the Pilgrims Progress (the famous book of John Baryar, translated Portuguese on the heading: The Pilgrim). He also took the maize that its mother gives to it, involved in leves of banana, and a small axe to protect itself. Its objective was to a continent and an ocean of distance, but it did not doubt of that he could reach it. He did not have idea of its age therefore these things little meant in a land where the time is always the same. He thought about having 16 or 18 years. Its father dies when it was very small. In 1925 its mother hears the words of missionaries of the church of the Escócia (presbiteriana) and the result was that its family became Christian. With the missionaries it not only learned the love of God, but also, if he wanted some day to be of some aid for its village, its people, its country, would be necessary that he acquired education. In Wenya, the eight miles of distance, had a primary school of the Mission, Found that it was in the hour to study and were until there. It learned much thing. She learned that she was not as most of the Africans believes, victim of its circumstances, and yes Mr. of them. He learned that, as Christian, he had obligation to use the talentos that God gave to it and to make the life best for the others. Later, in the gymnasium, he learned on the North America. He read the life of Abraham Lincoln and he started to love that man who suffers in such a way for helping the Africans enslaved in its country. He read, also, a autobiografia of Booker T. Washington, enslaved born proper it in the North America, and that he grows in dignity and honor, becoming a benefactor of the people of its country. To the few he was understanding that alone in the North America it would receive the training and the chances that would prepare it and they would lead it to equal those in its proper land, to be as they a leader and perhaps even though, the president of its country. Its intention was to make the way until the Cairo, where it waited to obtain ticket in a ship, for the North America. The Cairo was 3,000 miles of distance, distance that it could not evaluate, and crazy, he thought that he could even walk back in 4 or 5 days. Inside of 4 or 5 days it was the 25 miles of house, its food finished, he did not have money, and wise person what not to make, not to be that he would have to continue walking. It organized a method of travel that one year became for more than its life. The villages were, habitually to a distance of five or six miles one of the others, with ways for the forests. It arrived at the one of them afternoon and asked if he could work to gain food, water and a place to sleep. When this possible age it passed the night there, and in the following morning he continued until the village next. Nor always it was possible. The tribal language changed to each as many miles in Africa. It repeats frequently saw itself between people with which he could not communicate itself. That made of it, clearly an foreigner between them, perhaps an enemy. They did not leave it to enter in the villages, and it had to sleep in the forests, being eaten wild grass and fruits. Fast it discovered that its axe gave the people, to the times, the impression of that intended to fight or to steal, to thus changed it for a knife, that could lead hidden. It was now without defense against the animals of the forest, that feared in such a way. But it heard even so them during the night, none of them if it approached. However, the carrying mosquitos of the malaria had been accompanying constants, and frequently it felt sick person. Two things comforted to it and supported: its Bible and its Pilgrims Progress. Many and many times it read the Bible, finding confidence, particularly, the promise “It trusts Mr. with your heart all, and you do not rest in your proper agreement… Then, you will walk for your way”. (Sayings 3:5,23). To the end of the year of 1959 it had walked 1,000 miles until Uganda, where a family received to it, and found a job in the manufacture of bricks for the building of the government. It was six months there and he ordered most from what he received for its mother. It read many times in the Pilgrims Progress, on the tribulações of the Christian who rambled for the deserts looking for God, and compared that with its proper perambulação in direction with the objective who God puts in its heart, according to it believed. He could not give up as well as the Christian does not give up. One late, in the USIS library, in Kampala, found, unexpectedly, a yearbook of American colleges. Opening perhaps, it saw it to it the name of the Skagit Valley College, in Mount Vernon, Washington. It heard to say that to the times the North American colleges gave to scholarships the deserving Africans, for in such a way wrote the Dean, George Hodson, asking for a stock market. It understood that it could receive a refusal, but was not discouraged. It would write after for a school to another one of that they were in the yearbook, until finding one wanted that it to help. Three weeks later Dean it answered it to Hodson: They gave a scholarship and it would help it to the school to find job. Contentíssimo, was to have with the North American authorities, to only be knowing that was not sufficiently. It would need a passport and the gone money of and comes back in order to get a visa. It wrote for the government of Niasalândia, asking for a passport, but they had refused, because it wise person not to say where it was born. Then, it wrote the missionaries who had been its professors when boy, and was through the efforts of the missionaries who it obtained the passport. But not yet it could get the visa in Kampala, because it did not have the corresponding importance to the ticket. Still decided it left Kampala and it recommenced its travel in direction to the north. So strong it was its faith that used the money that remained to it in the purchase of its first pair of shoes. Wise person who could not arrive at the Skagit Valley College, bare-footed. She loaded the shoes for does not ruin them. Crossing Uganda and entering in Sudan, the villages if showed more distant ones of the others, and the people less friendly with it. To the times it had to walk 20 or 30 miles per day in order to find some place to sleep or to gain some food. Finally Cartum reached, where it knew that it had a North American consulate, for where if directed, in order to try the luck. One more time regarding the entrance requirements, of this time through vice-consul Emmett M. Coxson, but Mr. Coxson wrote for the college speaking of its situation. In return he came a telegram. The students, having heard to speak of its problems, had obtained a thousand and seven hundred dollar of the ticket, through beneficient parties. He was electrified and deeply grateful, and contentíssimo for having considered the North Americans correctly, its friendship and fraternity. The God for the orientation was grateful that gives to it and promised to place its future Its service. The news that it walked the foot during two years and for 2.500 miles had circulated for Cartum. The Communists had come seeing and had offered to order it for a school in Yugoslavia, with all the paid expenditures also travel, and subsistence during its studies. It said: “I am Christian” - he could not be educated in its schools without God to be the man who I intend to be. They had informed it that as African, it would have racial difficulties in the United States, but it read the sufficient in North American periodicals to feel that factor would not be important. To its he taught it religion that the men are not perfect, but that they will please the God when to fight to arrive at the perfection. The North American effort, it felt, made with that the parents so were blessed. In December of 1960, taking its two books and using its first tender one, arrived to the Skagit Valley College. In its speech of gratitude to the student staff, the first-minister or the president of its country spoke on its desire of being, but he repaired that he had smiles. It was thinking if it said something ingenuous, found that not. When God puts an impossible dream in our heart wants to say that he will help to carry through it. It believed that this was truth, when, being a boy of the African hinterland, if he felt compelled if to become a diplomee one of American college. E this if carried through when it was formed for the University of Washington. E if God gave the dream to it of if to become president of the Niasalândia, this also became reality. “When we resist the God Only is that in them we conserve nobody. E when in them we submit the God, whichever the sacrifice or suffering, are that we become in them much more of what we dare to dream”. This is the history of Legson Kayira.
(A reading, removed of the magazine Guideposts, real facts)
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