Author: Nadia Hattingh

It still amazes us how a small scrape can turn into something huge (literally) here in the bush! Francois got a nick on his thump while working to fix our vehicle… before he knew it, it was infected and he had pain all the way up his arm. We are treating the wound now with […]

This month old baby’s mother developed sever mastitis and by the time she arrived here on Sunday afternoon, she started to show the first signs of malnutrition. Her mom was trying to feed her a weak solution of water and cassava root (dried and pounded to a flour). Some cassava has small amount of arsenic […]

The rest of the first half of the 2000 or so km back home went pretty much without any incident. We are still amazed about the progress and growth in this country – especially in the South. As we drove further north, things become more and more rural and toilet facilities for example deteriorated with […]

The rest of the 3rd day’s travel back home was less comfortable and very tiring. The road quickly deteriorated from then onwards. Those of you who know, will agree that one of the worst kinds of roads to travel on (especially with a trailer) is a paved (tar) road that got “holy”! Just as we […]

It was our 5th day on the road (the first was only from 17h30 to 23h00) and we were very ready to get home and unpack! The worst part of the trip was ahead – road wise – since soon after Quelimane we hit a very damaged gravel road. Three hours from home the steering […]

[cid:image001.jpg@01CD2313.84A2E070] Finally, on Monday 16 April, we arrived at our home after spending the night at the Henderson’s house (thanks guys!!!). Elin continued to provide meals for us during the first days, as we and our friends from Parys tried to make a home of boxes and spider webs in our house again. The Hendersons […]

We made a detour to the main town of our province to get Nadia’s yearly work permit renewed (that expires the end of April). Normally the process takes at least 2 days, but because of the delay that morning (trying to fix the car) we were not able to be there early morning and by […]

We crossed the border into Mozambique sometime around 20h00 the Tuesday evening. We were fully packed… Two vehicles and a trailer that included groceries galore (compliments of the Parys and Clubview believers!! Thanks guys!), a dog, AudioBible players and a quad bike… All of above and more could have caused us much hassle and tax […]

We are home!! It took us 5 days to finally get here, but praise the Lord we made it! We were not able to leave South Africa on the Monday we planned, as Francois found a very frazzled tie-rod end over the Easter weekend. We had to wait until shops open again, before we could […]