Category: Family

Our daily staple. Heidi learns how to bake bread from scratch! Daily visitors: people are streaming in get their wounds treated and bandaged. The first weeks were the worst: many had huge tropical sores again (like in the beginning), but things are slowing down a bit now. Hopefully soon we will just see “fresh” wounds […]

The image that welcomed us back: dirt road to our house. Back home! Moving in. Mwinika neighbours taking an impromptu break while helping us to move in. Guess what’s on the screen? A car of course! Cars: the universal “men” language of all ages! 🙂 Food for Africa! We are so grateful to the two […]

Francois left this morning (before Waldo fell ill) with a car full of Mwinika neighbours and friends – all of them HIV/Aids positive. He took them to the closest village for tests and hopefully treatment. One man Eliasa, MayeApete’s son, is very sick and on the brink of dying. He was so weak this morning […]

Saturday started bright and early after a rather interesting night trying to find accommodation in a town along the way. ALL the hotels and guest houses were occupied since an important dignitary was visiting a village close by. The two NTM families living there were ready to help, but one house simply did not even […]