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All Things Considered: Missionary and mother of 54 (Part 2)

Missionary and mother of 54

Missionary and mother of 54 (Part 2)

BBC Radio Wales - All Things Considered, Missionary and mother of 54 (Part 2)

Last part of the Chrissie Chapman story, Christian missionary and single mother of 54.

Last of two programmes featuring Chrissie Chapman, Christian missionary in Burundi and single mother of three adopted children, who has also brought up more than fifty others.

Roy Jenkins' guest for the second of a two part edition of All Things Considered is Chrissie Chapman, a Christian missionary and midwife who left Dinas Powis in the Vale of Glamorgan for one of the poorest countries on earth - and found both her life's work, and a family. 

Last week we heard of the challenges she faced 28 years ago when she arrived in the small East African state of Burundi to set up a maternity clinic and dispensary in a remote mountaintop location. She described a life changing encounter with angels and her conviction that her work in the war-ravaged country has been sustained by divine miracles.

This week, Chrissie Chapman takes up the story where the civil war (which was to claim 300,000 lives) forced her to abandon the maternity clinic and start working in the camps packed with people displaced by Burundi's ethnic violence, and refugees from the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda.

She had already adopted two daughters, she would eventually bring up more than 50 children, and she began by telling Roy Jenkins about the arrival of her adopted son.

This programme was first broadcast in June 2018

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