Three-year-old Oussie* was ill and suffering from malnutrition when she began coming to Alafia clinic in Benin, part of SIM’s Hope for Life network. After a traumatic period of rejection from family, clinic staff welcomed her in. For some time, she slept through the evening devotions but now, she sings loudly and is quick to answer questions.
Around 300,000 Yom speakers live in Benin and beyond, as far as Nigeria. Dorothy “Dodi” Forsberg, a Yom translator with SIM since 1976, worked with a team of three in recent years to arrive at this long-awaited publication.