Sunday, September 23, 2012

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Visits in the bush


As I rode out to the SOVCO office every morning, sidesaddle on the back of a motorcycle, I got to watch the whole parade of African life going on around me: women carrying babies tied to their backs or big pots balanced on their heads, groups of small grinning children , who when they would see me, would shout, "Mono, Bye!" (Mono is what white people are called), men washing a motorbike in a creek, children carrying jerrycans of water or herding goats...and beautiful lush green landscape by the side of the road. You don't see may houses, so you wonder where all these people are coming from.
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Meeting one of the children along the path near her house.
But when I went out to visit the children in their homes, I discovered...

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