I am so happy to share the good news that the Army Of Good is very good, and that angels are real and are blessing our work. Yesterday, I asked for help in keeping Michelle and Ababele, two boys from the Congo, who came to America a few months ago from a U.N. refugee camp in Tanzania, now have the tuition money they need to keep them in the RISSE after school program until the summer recess.

The tuition fund received the money in hours.

We will worry about tuition for the rest of year later, I received more than $2,500 for the boy’s tuition last night and early this morning. A few weeks ago, we brought groceries to their mother Sifa, who has eight children. The father of the older boys was killed in the camp, the father of the younger boys remains in the refugee camp, he is so far unable to obtain a visa to join his family there.

Sifa fled the genocide in the Congo and has been in the crowded and violent refugee camp for more than 20 years. Because she has three young children at home, including twin babies,  she cannot work. Because the boys can’t speak English they are struggling to advance.

The boys attend the Albany Public Schools, but speak almost no English, in order to advance through the schools and through their new life in America, they desperately need the experience language teachers at RISSE, the refugee and immigrant center in Albany.

RISSE Director Of Operations Francis Sengabo asked me and the AOG if we could help, the school lost more than $75,000 in tuition subsidies for refugee and immigrant students when federal subsidies were slashed or eliminated this year. They are struggling desperately to keep needy students in the afterschool program, where they get warm meals and urgently needed lessons in acclimating to America..

I told them we can’t undertake to help all of those children, not at once, but would try to help these two, perhaps others later. Tuition is $500 a month, $10,000 for the year. I can’t thank you enough, this money will get them into the afterschool program through the Spring. We are also helping get the boys boots and some clothes.

If you wish to help these boys, you can contribute via my post office box, P.O Box 205, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816, or Paypal, [email protected]. I’d love to help get them through the year, but we don’t need to do that at once. I like to move in smaller ways, small acts of great kindness.

Thanks to the very generous people who answered this call, and who showed this family and others the true spirit of America. Angels are real. Sifa has invited us to dinner to thank us – Maria, Ali and me. We are happy to accept. Her most urgent request is for her kids to get the education they need, and were denied in their refugee camp.

This aid will change lives.