A shaking experience (Wednesday, 14. October 2009)
Today we've been in the field. This means we have been out in the rural area. This means we have been there were the people live from whatever they can get into their stomach. Some of them have some plants in a community garden: potatoes, lettuce, spinach, carrots, onions, peaches. But really it's very few plants for a whole group of people. They work hard for what we would call a very little garden.
The biggest problem is lack of water. It's a very dry area. Soil is distorted. Another problem is too much livestock result in overgrazing. RuLiv has build an auction place where the rural people can sell their cows. They don't use their cattle for meat anyways. So in other words the cows are more like a status symbol as a means to get something to eat.
RuLiv is trying to get the people there more organized. They suggest the rural people to set up action groups. That way they can bring in their concerns into even more organized and legal entities. Eventually empowering the people to find ways out of their poverty.
Women are working out in the field while men are hanging around at home. Unemployment is huge. Some of the guys there seemed drunken.
We have been welcomed with songs and dances by the women. They tried to sell us some handcrafted ornaments. The prices that they wanted to charge us were incredibly high and inappropriate. You could tell they don't have experience with pricing.
People are really friendly. And even though they are so far away from the more civilized world they might live a happier life as some of the people in the shacks in townships near the bigger cities.
Our way there to Queenstown, Lady Fere and Machubeni has been long and dusty. Driving in the rural area is a "shaking" experience. We would drive like an hour or two just on a very dusty and stony sand street. Cows, sheeps, goats or even monkeys are showing up on the street.
Arriving back home I was so happy and grateful for life that I have been given. I have more than enough. I consider myself being very lucky.
The biggest problem is lack of water. It's a very dry area. Soil is distorted. Another problem is too much livestock result in overgrazing. RuLiv has build an auction place where the rural people can sell their cows. They don't use their cattle for meat anyways. So in other words the cows are more like a status symbol as a means to get something to eat.
RuLiv is trying to get the people there more organized. They suggest the rural people to set up action groups. That way they can bring in their concerns into even more organized and legal entities. Eventually empowering the people to find ways out of their poverty.
Women are working out in the field while men are hanging around at home. Unemployment is huge. Some of the guys there seemed drunken.
We have been welcomed with songs and dances by the women. They tried to sell us some handcrafted ornaments. The prices that they wanted to charge us were incredibly high and inappropriate. You could tell they don't have experience with pricing.
People are really friendly. And even though they are so far away from the more civilized world they might live a happier life as some of the people in the shacks in townships near the bigger cities.
Our way there to Queenstown, Lady Fere and Machubeni has been long and dusty. Driving in the rural area is a "shaking" experience. We would drive like an hour or two just on a very dusty and stony sand street. Cows, sheeps, goats or even monkeys are showing up on the street.
Arriving back home I was so happy and grateful for life that I have been given. I have more than enough. I consider myself being very lucky.
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