14/12/2025
Part_ 4️⃣2️⃣
“The Letter with the Government Seal”
The morning was ordinary until it wasn’t.
Chinedu was arranging chairs for the weekly support session when Amara burst through the door, holding a brown envelope like it was made of glass.
Her breath came fast, her eyes wide.
“Chinedu…” she said, voice trembling with joy.
“It came.”
He frowned, puzzled.
“What came?”
She pressed the envelope into his hands.
The seal of the Anambra State Ministry of Women Affairs glimmered faintly under the sunlight.
He blinked.
His fingers shook as he opened it.
“In recognition of your exceptional contribution to community rehabilitation and mental health awareness, Ụlọ Ụzọ Ọma has been selected for a state support grant…”
He didn’t finish reading. His throat closed.
The hall erupted — survivors clapped, some laughed through tears, others simply stood in stunned silence.
For years they had been whispered about, pitied, ignored.
Now, the same community that once turned away was applauding them.
Amara threw her arms around him, laughing through tears.
“You did it!”
But Chinedu shook his head, his voice soft and breaking.
“We did it.”
One of the older women in the group, her face half-burned, raised her chin proudly.
“Now they will know we are still human.”
The local radio station arrived that afternoon.
The journalist, a young man in thick glasses, asked Chinedu,
“How did you start all this?”
He smiled,
glancing at Amara.
“With a scar, a little faith, and a woman who refused to run from what scared her.”
When the story aired that evening, Onitsha paused.
Some listened with quiet respect, others with surprise.
Even Amara’s father — the man who once swore she’d bring shame to his name — stood outside his shop, listening to his daughter’s voice drift through the radio’s static:
“Healing is not about hiding pain.
It’s about letting light find its way through the cracks.”
The neighborhood that once whispered now nodded in approval.
And for the first time, the signboard outside Ụlọ Ụzọ Ọma didn’t just stand for survival — it stood for hope that had finally been seen.
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