What happened in November?
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- Published: Wednesday, 12 November 2014 00:00
Newsflash November 2014
Dear Friends,
Lots has happened during the last couple of months. Wish we could take you personally on our trips and let you experience life here. That’s why we start this update with some photo’s from the environment where we work, so you will get an idea on what life is all about in these communities. So have a close look at the pictures, then close your eyes, smell the woodfires, listen to the fast Zulu talking, with lots of laughter in between, and… there you are!! ;-)
Although the houses are small and dark, still they are build with bricks, very different from the townships you so often find in Gauteng. A kitchen is nowhere to be found, the people here cook their mieliepap on wood, outside. An average toilet is a longdrop, even if you build a toilet bowl on it… The toilet in the 3rd picture is the church’s toilet, where I give the women’s Biblestudies… not hard to imagine I usually try to wait going till I am ‘home’. ;-)
In the communities we work there is no running water. A watertruc comes once or twice a week and fills up all the vessels people have placed outside. (photo 5) A few weeks ago the truc did not arrive for over a week, maybe it broke down… the people started fighting with one another over the last bit of water that was left… so sad.
The roads in the communities are real bad, non-tarred and lots of holes. Sometimes we had to return because we could not carry on in our (borrowed) sedan. Leaving the car and walk the rest is not something you would do here… We hope to be able to buy a second hand 4x4 in the near future.
