Our Guardian Angel in Congo doesn’t have wings. She has keys to a four-wheel drive and a satellite phone, which she uses to argue with suppliers about the next delivery of meds. Her name is Sister Agnieszka. Her battlefield in the fight for good is a spreadsheet open on a laptop whose battery has to be charged with a generator. Her weapon is determination strong enough to break through any wall of bureaucracy in Goma. Thanks to Sister Agnieszka, every day there is an IV cannula, a sterile needle, and a doctor’s hands ready to use them. The patient admitted today will survive—and tomorrow Sister Agnieszka will fight to find help for the next one.

She knows that hope is not just a state of mind, but also the state of the storeroom. Shelves stocked with anti-malarial drugs, supplies of therapeutic milk, and a working ultrasound machine. These are the concrete things she fights for, relentlessly. But that determination, that strength, does not come out of nowhere. It is an entire system, a bloodstream that has to keep flowing. That bloodstream is every penny you donate. Every person in her Angel’s Team. It is this invisible force that has kept one small light glowing in the heart of Africa, even when the front line reached the hospital itself.

Today, on the Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels, the world talks about invisible protectors. Here, in Ntamugenga, care has a very tangible, visible form. It has the price of a bag of cement, a blood transport, or the salary of a local nurse.

Thank you to everyone who already supports Sister Agnieszka. Tell us in the comments: why did you decide to join her team? And if you’re not part of it yet—today is a wonderful day to give this Angel a few more wings.