Mulishani mukwai? (hello, how are you? in Bimba) and Habari yaku (Hello, in Swahili).
The team has concluded our work for this trip in Tanzania and traveled on to Mufurila. We learned just a little bit of Swahili while in Dar es Salaam and are now back in the copper belt of Zambia, muddling our way in Bimba. I do wish I had more of a gift for language, English included.
During the last STS workshop day in Dar es Salaam the team prepared about 50 planting bags and distributed them to interested pastors and students at the workshop. Several people were very excited about the moringa information we provided and were discussing organizing local projects to promote the trees and knowledge of their health and nutrition benefits.
After our two day travel by train to Zambia, we began our first working day this morning (04 Jan 2010). The moringa trees at Dr. Thinus's house are looking very well, healthy, and full of leaves and pods. We plan to harvest leaves and make moringa powder for the orphanage in Burundi. The Mufurila saw mill provided the lumber required to build drying trays and we nearly completed construction of 10 trays and a rack.
It's great to be back in Zambia and greeting again the people we know here.
Reuben
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