Our mate Florian & his brother, a Priest, took us out to visit their home village yesterday. Grand Day Out - high blue skies, good natured banter, pizza & beer - what more could you want?
They have a lovely home & we met his ancient mother sitting under a mango tree. Learnt about his sister's tobacco growing / trading enterprise and got A to climb the guava tree so that we could take some yummy yummy fruit home.
Florian & his brother each support projects in neighbouring villages to feed the very little ones / provide some relief to the mothers. They are clearly the 'bwanas' round here, every time I turned around some new relative was tapping them for cash.
This is how it seems to work - one of the boys of the village does good, gets a job and is then responsible for nearly everybody else. Florian is the eldest of the Chieftain family and should have been a Chief himself. But he and his lovely wife Mary wanted their children to grow up in the city, so he declined it and passed it over to his uncle.
A has offered to take up the Chieftainship when F's uncle dies :-) Love it, bwana Andrew & donna Fiona, can you imagine?!
F x
PS - shelter in photo was paid for by Enrico's fundraising back home - the spirit of the Swiss specials drinker lives on!
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