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Date(s): October 2008. Album by ELCA World Hunger Appeal. Photos by Sue Edison-Swift. 1 - 130 of 130 Total.
enlarge 75KB, 424x638 1 DSC 0628Edit At the end of the day Gloria is one of the two girls who is hired to sell bread to shops and to people walking home.Edit
enlarge 66KB, 424x638 2 DSC 0627Edit At the end of the day Olga is one of the two girls who is hired to sell bread to shops and to people walking home.Edit
enlarge 45KB, 638x424 3 DSC 0626Edit Olga peddles bread for the Murunwa bakery and garden project.Edit
enlarge 63KB, 638x424 7 DSC 0619Edit The Murunwa Bakery Project began in 1996 with an outdoor, wood oven. What started out with 48 members now falls to eight hard-working women.Edit
enlarge 56KB, 638x424 8 DSC 0618Edit The Murunwa Bakery ProjectEdit
enlarge 44KB, 638x424 9 DSC 0614Edit The second bakery we visited, the Murunwa bakery and garden project, does use the modern eletrical equipment; they have an electrical transformer.Edit
enlarge 41KB, 638x424 10 DSC 0612Edit The first bakery we visited have a mixer like this on their wish list.Edit
enlarge 67KB, 640x427 11 DSC 0611Edit End of the day at the Murunwa Bakery. The staff will take home the not-so-perfect bread to their families.Edit
enlarge 43KB, 638x424 12 DSC 0610Edit Elisa (right) and EstherEdit
enlarge 43KB, 638x424 13 DSC 0607Edit Elisa (right) and Esther are two of the bakers at Murunwa. "We are always praying, asking God to help us," said Elisa. The eight bakers share the 400 Rand/month profit from the bakery (close to $50). "Things are better now," said Esther, "now we can even serve milk at tea-time."Edit
enlarge 54KB, 640x427 15 DSC 0604Edit Sarah (left) and SueEdit
enlarge 61KB, 638x424 16 DSC 0602Edit The chicken for our lunch was made in this pot over a wood fire.Edit
enlarge 35KB, 424x638 17 DSC 0599Edit Water is being rationed in Tshixwadza; the members must gather all the water needed for the bakery on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.Edit
enlarge 58KB, 639x456 19 DSC 0589Edit Here are seven of the 10 bakers of the Tshixwadza Bakery Project; they have worked together since 1998. They work in two groups, one week at a time. Their day begins at 3 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. It takes three hours per batch of bread.Edit
enlarge 54KB, 638x424 20 DSC 0588Edit Vida (far right) is holding "fat cakes"--fried dough that is a favorite with children heading to school.Edit
enlarge 52KB, 638x424 21 DSC 0587Edit Vida (far right): "When you go back, don't forget us; continue to pray for us. We will pray for you." The members open and close their meetings with prayer.Edit
enlarge 72KB, 638x424 22 DSC 0584Edit The bakers made a delicious lunch for us, including two kinds of mealie-meal (corn meal); white and yellow.Edit
enlarge 81KB, 638x424 23 DSC 0583Edit "Thanks to ELCSA...they have a done a lot for us. They helped provide the roofing and flour, the electricity and the ovens." The bakery is another example of a "graduated" project. ELCSA is an associate program of the Lutheran World Federation.Edit
enlarge 77KB, 424x638 24 DSC 0582Edit $1 USD = about 8.5 South African RandsEdit
enlarge 51KB, 638x424 25 DSC 0580Edit The members of the Tshixwadza Bakery Project each contributed toward the purchase of a professional proofer and oven (29,000 Rand, about $3,400). This equipment remains unused, however, waiting to be able to afford an electrical transformer (15,000 Rand, about $1,800).Edit
enlarge 114KB, 638x424 27 DSC 0573Edit Donkey or mule?Edit
enlarge 91KB, 638x424 28 DSC 0572Edit Donkey or mule?Edit
enlarge 99KB, 638x424 29 DSC 0571Edit The bakery's wood pile.Edit
enlarge 46KB, 424x638 30 DSC 0570Edit Posted on the Tshixwadza Bakery Project door.Edit
enlarge 44KB, 638x424 31 DSC 0568Edit Sarah has been a baker with the project for 10 years.Edit
enlarge 69KB, 638x424 32 DSC 0564Edit George Bhengani (left) and Mr. Mugeri are project committee chairmen.Edit
enlarge 82KB, 638x424 33 DSC 0562Edit Walking back after our briefing/meeting with community leaders.Edit
enlarge 64KB, 638x424 34 DSC 0560Edit Kennedy Mphephu ELCSA-DS Project Coordinator served as our interpreter/translator.Edit
enlarge 75KB, 424x638 35 DSC 0559Edit We met under the cool shade of a patch of old-growth forest; rocks provide natural seating places. George Bhengani with Pr. Richard.Edit
enlarge 110KB, 640x427 36 DSC 0555Edit The man in the middle is a local community leader.Edit
enlarge 57KB, 427x640 37 DSC 0554Edit Mr. Mugeri: "The poverty is moving away bit by bit."Edit
enlarge 73KB, 638x424 38 DSC 0553Edit George Bhengani addressed the group: "We learned to sit down and work as a team. We learned about recording and planning. Now we can pay school fees and provide food for our families; we have banking accounts. We have been trained to fix the pipes, to fix problems; we are engineers."Edit
enlarge 65KB, 424x638 39 DSC 0552Edit George: "The project, started in 1999, changed our lives." The whole system is gravity-based; as yet there's no electricity in the communities.Edit
enlarge 64KB, 427x640 40 DSC 0550Edit Kristy Bhengani and baby George. The project committee has five women and five men as members. This is a "graduated project," no longer receiving financial assistance from ELCSA-DS. They continue to improve their communities, currently working on securing electricity.Edit
enlarge 65KB, 424x638 42 DSC 0548Edit Mr. Mugeri worries about the drought conditions.Edit
enlarge 135KB, 640x427 43 DSC 0547Edit Imagine the work it takes to plow these fields! Still, "animal traction" is best. It costs about 700 Rands to plow one hector with a tractor (with serious compaction of the soil), and 250 Rands to plow that same hector with animal tractions. Mules are preferred over donkeys, but donkeys are cheaper. Four donkeys are harnessed together to plow.Edit
enlarge 60KB, 640x426 44 DSC 0546Edit The second reservoir we visited: Tshuwisa Community.Edit
enlarge 65KB, 426x640 45 DSC 0545Edit Pr. Philip Knutson (ELCA Global Mission, Regional Program Assistant for Southern Africa)Edit
enlarge 41KB, 424x638 46 DSC 0543Edit The second reservoir we visited: Tshuwisa Community.Edit
enlarge 68KB, 424x638 47 DSC 0542Edit The second reservoir we visited: Tshuwisa Community.Edit
enlarge 118KB, 638x424 48 DSC 0535Edit A harness for mulesEdit
enlarge 97KB, 424x638 49 DSC 0534Edit walking to the meeting placeEdit
enlarge 113KB, 638x424 50 DSC 0533Edit This is moroho...a green-leaf vegetable like spinach that is good for reducing blood pressure.Edit
enlarge 81KB, 638x424 51 DSC 0532Edit These are green beans.Edit
enlarge 107KB, 638x424 52 DSC 0531Edit Part of the irrigation systemEdit
enlarge 75KB, 638x424 53 DSC 0530Edit Part of the irrigation systemEdit
enlarge 102KB, 640x426 54 DSC 0529Edit On the way to our briefing.Edit
enlarge 110KB, 638x424 56 DSC 0524Edit The women take the gate bypass...Edit
enlarge 87KB, 638x424 57 DSC 0522Edit An irrigation project has improved the life for two neighboring communities: water runoff from a mountain is collected in a reservoir, reservoir water is channeled through pipes to a tap and then to fields.Edit
enlarge 98KB, 638x424 59 DSC 0520Edit Pipes lead the water to dug ditches, irrigating fields. The communities have suffered from drought conditions in recent years; only the irrigation system is allowing them to farm the crops.Edit
enlarge 91KB, 424x638 60 DSC 0517Edit Pipes lead the water to dug ditches, irrigating fields.Edit
enlarge 113KB, 424x638 61 DSC 0515Edit The source for the water: runoff from the mountain.Edit
enlarge 109KB, 638x424 62 DSC 0513Edit Heading to the meeting place.Edit
enlarge 109KB, 638x424 63 DSC 0512Edit The women greet The Rev. Richard Agullhas, ELCSA Development Service Director. ELCSA-DS is an associate program of the Lutheran World Federation. Speaking of program philosophy, Pr. Richard said: "We recognize the right for people to decide for themselves what is best. We don't pay people to contribute to their own project; their labor is their contribution. Forty percent of the two communities contributed to the irrigation project and its related efforts. This means they can say "this is ours."Edit
enlarge 123KB, 638x424 64 DSC 0509Edit There hasn't been rain for nine months.Edit
enlarge 107KB, 640x427 66 DSC 0506Edit The gate and gate bypass. On the way to gathering place to learn more about the irrigation project.Edit
enlarge 100KB, 638x424 67 DSC 0504Edit Homes near the first reservoir we visited. The communities are in the far Northeast corner of South Africa, near the border of Zimbabwe.Edit
enlarge 76KB, 638x424 68 DSC 0503Edit Homes near the first reservoir we visited.Edit
enlarge 82KB, 424x638 69 DSC 0501Edit Each of the two communities has one reservoir and one tap for water. "Before we had to go to the river to get water," said one of the women at the meeting. Even with the tap, the women estimate they spend two- to three-hours a day gathering water.Edit
enlarge 64KB, 424x638 70 DSC 0500Edit The Rev. Richard Agullhas (right) and Kennedy Mphephu are staff of ELCSA-DS (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa-Development Service).Edit
enlarge 58KB, 424x638 71 DSC 0499Edit Chris checks out the reservoir.Edit
enlarge 64KB, 427x640 72 DSC 0498Edit The Rev. Richard Agullhas, ELCSA-DS (Director)Edit
enlarge 67KB, 424x638 73 DSC 0494Edit Each of the two communities has one reservoir and one tap for water.Edit
enlarge 83KB, 638x424 74 DSC 0491Edit Each of the two communities has one reservoir and one tap for water.Edit
enlarge 48KB, 424x638 75 DSC 0490Edit Each of the two communities has one reservoir and one tap for water.Edit
enlarge 70KB, 638x424 76 DSC 0486Edit The first reservoir...Madzororo community. The waterfall that fills the reservoir is two kilometers away. It cost 145,000 Rands for the Part I, construction of the reservoirs and taps (approx. $17,000). It cost 150, 500 Rands for Part II of the project, laying the pipes from the reservoirs to the fields (approx. $17,700). The irrigation allows the communities to grow and market maize, beans, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, and morrows (greens).Edit
enlarge 100KB, 638x424 77 DSC 0485Edit The piping brings water from the waterfall to fill the reservoir and from the reservoir to irrigate the fields.Edit
enlarge 77KB, 638x424 78 DSC 0484Edit The piping brings water from the waterfall to fill the reservoir and from the reservoir to irrigate the fields.Edit
enlarge 50KB, 638x424 87 DSC 0470Edit Paved roads gave way to unpaved roads that gave way to get out and walk. In the rainy season these roads are often unpassable.Edit
enlarge 80KB, 638x424 88 DSC 0469Edit Baobab tree in spring, before its leaves become a canopy of shade.Edit
enlarge 63KB, 424x638 93 DSC 0458Edit The Rev. Richard Agullhas, director of ELCSA-DSEdit
enlarge 60KB, 424x638 94 DSC 0457Edit The Rev. Richard Agullhas, director of ELCSA-DSEdit
enlarge 48KB, 638x424 95 DSC 0452Edit Christiana Metzger and Rahab Ramodibe; Diakonia AIDS Ministry. DAM: Support groups; home-based care; education and training; orphan care; sewing, carpentry, bead-making, gardening; counseling.Edit
enlarge 64KB, 640x457 96 DSC 0450Edit Diakonia AIDS Ministry Project Coordinators and staff at the ELCSA Central Diocesan Center, Jabavu, Soweto.Edit
enlarge 63KB, 638x424 97 DSC 0448Edit DAM's project coordinators finished a training event on the day we visited.Edit
enlarge 63KB, 640x427 98 DSC 0445Edit Johannesburg, South Africa; 10/13/2008: Christiana Metzger(ELCA)(top right) and the Rev. Selby Mugivhi (Diaconia AIDS Ministry - Director)(bottom right) with the 2008 DAM project coordinators.Edit
enlarge 59KB, 424x638 99 DSC 0443Edit SOWETO, South Africa; 10/13/2008: The Rev. Philip Knutson, ELCA Global Mission Regional Program Assistant for Southern Africa, based in Capetown and Christiana Metzger, an ELCA two-year mission personnel (GM2), based in Johannesburg.Edit
enlarge 126KB, 638x424 100 DSC 0441Edit SOWETO, South Africa (10/13/08): This is one of the ELCSA (Evangelical Lutheran Church South Africa) Central Diocese office that Moses Motheba tends.Edit
enlarge 66KB, 424x638 102 DSC 0439Edit SOWETO, South Africa (10/13/08): Moses Motheba, 102, tends the gardens at the ELCSA Central Diocese office.Edit
enlarge 42KB, 638x424 103 DSC 0436Edit SOWETO, South Africa (10/13/08) The Rev. Selby Mugivhi (right) directs the Diakonia Aids Ministry and Rahab Ramodibe is DAM's social workerEdit
enlarge 61KB, 638x424 105 DSC 0434Edit Diocesan Center for The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa - Central Diocese located in Jabavu, Soweto, Johannesburg.Edit
enlarge 42KB, 638x424 106 DSC 0433Edit LUCSA is a regional expression of the Lutheran World Federation consisting of 17 member churches in 10 countries in the Southern Africa.Edit
enlarge 44KB, 424x638 107 DSC 0431Edit Vernah Mzezewa: "We target church leadership [bishops, key pastors, women & youth leaders] to prioritize HIV/AIDS; create an enabling environment; and address stigma and discrimination.Edit
enlarge 63KB, 424x638 108 DSC 0429Edit Verna: "We must mainstream HIV/AIDS into all aspects of the church, otherwise we have isolated projects."Edit
enlarge 45KB, 424x638 111 DSC 0426Edit Vernah (AKA Venah) Mzezewa. LUCSA AIDS Action Program (LAAP) Coordiantor: "How long will we just care for the orphans and do home-based care? We must be proactive and preventive!" "Our approach must address malaria, TB, and malnutrition along with HIV/AIDS. Sixty percent of those with TB are HIV positive, but it's easier to just say "I have TB." "My hope is in the church. [Through the church we can target] all the categories of the population--men, women, youth, married, unmarried, widowed."Edit
enlarge 55KB, 426x639 112 DSC 0416Edit Christopher Carpenter at the Sunflower B&B, Johannesburg.Edit
enlarge 39KB, 424x638 113 DSC 0410Edit Christiana Metzger is an ELCA two-year missionary based in Johannesburg; she serves as the Education and Training Program Officer for DAM (Diaconia AIDS Ministry).Edit
enlarge 47KB, 424x638 114 DSC 0408Edit Christiana Metzger served as our host on Sunday 10/12/08, taking us to church and to the apartheid museum.Edit
enlarge 45KB, 424x638 115 DSC 0403Edit Christiana Metzger; two-year ELCA missionary serving in South Africa. [Christiana, did you say your home congregation is Amazing Grace in Baltimore?]Edit
enlarge 59KB, 427x640 116 DSC 0399Edit Our first day in Johannesburg: Chris Carpenter (bottom left), Paul Edison-Swift, Christiana Metzger (top left), Sue Edison-Swift.Edit
enlarge 46KB, 638x424 117 DSC 0394Edit 10/12/2008. ELCSA Jabavu Parish (Immanuel Lutheran). The first round of offerings was a three-in-one deal: the Sunday offering, the Sunday School offering, and the third for maintainance. This was followed by a high-pressure "won't let you go until we reach our goal" designated offering.Edit
enlarge 59KB, 638x424 118 DSC 0393Edit "We are the children of the Sunday School!" the children sang as they processed to the front of the congregation. Sunday School classes meet during the sermon.Edit
enlarge 41KB, 638x424 119 DSC 0390Edit 10/12/13, we worshipped in SOWETO (Southwest Townships) at Jabavu Parish.Edit
enlarge 54KB, 638x424 127 DSC 0652Edit Pam Foster (left) with her friend Shirley Ford are both guesthouse owners.Edit
enlarge 49KB, 424x638 128 DSC 0649Edit Shirley Ford is the owner of the Welcome Inn in Johannesburg; Chris and I stayed there one night with Sunflowers Guesthouse was full.Edit
enlarge 57KB, 638x424 129 DSC 0645Edit The Fosters are hosts of Sunflowers Guesthouse, Johannesburg.Edit
enlarge 67KB, 424x638 130 DSC 0636Edit Scones still life.Edit
