Two Sides: Kenya Celebration and Tanzania Home

First Graduating Class-Happy Day Academy

On the Kenya side, Garry, Mary, and Bernard took the eighth grade graduating class (17 students to Lunch at the Kentmere Club.   They had a great time as the pictures show.    With their final exams over, they were all reeling the relief as they anticipated their graduation.   Garry was able to spend time with the graduates and teachers.   Hopefully, tomorrow we can get Garry’s insights and experiences with the graduation.

 

On the Tanzania side, Floyd, Mpeli and Neema began their day with a delicious bowl of goat soup with chapti (Neema had roasted bananas).    After breakfast we headed to Tukuyu, our first stop was Mpeli’s father farm.  The farm consists mostly of banana trees.  Mpeli’s mother and younger brother, James, are buried there.   We also looked a new addition—a small tilapia fish pond.   (More on the pond later). 

 

We the headed up the road for Harry Mwasanjala’s house to have lunch, meet Harry’s new wife, Monica.  Two of Neema’s sisters had some to spend time with us, Sarah and Tuma.   The ladies had prepared a BIG lunch.   In traditional style, Mpeli, Harry, and I discussed a lot of important things outside in the shade. 

Harry, Mpeli and I went to the property that is being developed for providing income for local ministry and eventually a guest house.   The property has bananas, coffee, and an avocado tree.     With Harry guidance, we decided to plant some avocado bushes for income production, keep a care taker full time, put a fence around the property, and the last big thing—a fish pond.   This is a secret because Bonnie has talked about a fish pond on the property.   This will be a big income producing project but requires the care taker and the fence.   

 

We left Harry’s to pay respects to a family where the husband had died last week.  He was a pastor.   This visit brought home many realities for women and especially pastor’s wives in East Africa.    As a widow, she will have to find some kind of work for support as there is no other resources available.    This pastor was also the one who took care of his mother (a widow).     So now both of these widows will be searching for a means of support for them and for the pastor’s children.    Widows’ ministry was recently started as a vision of Teleios partners in Tanzania.   Here was a clear example of the critical need.  

Our final stop of the day was to visit with a great friend of Daily Breach Life, Pastor Furaha and Mama Ekupa.   Ekupa, their oldest daughter, works at Daily Bread Life Children’s Home in Iringa.   She does a great job and is very positive, caring, but strong as she serves with Neema and Mpeli.    We had an early dinner.   As a note today, I ate three different variety of bananas.    We also left Tukuyu loaded down with bunches of bananas on the top of the Nissan SUV.  

TIGER ROOM IS MY ROOM

The Beaco put me in the Tiger room!