Tanneken with her people Recently I was privileged to be in the audience when Tanneken Fros delivered her passionate update of work among the bereft orphans of Beira District, Mozambique. Twenty miles outside of Beira is the town of Dondo where Tanneken Fros has been residing since 2001.  A rapid synopsis of her life beginning with ancestral Holland […]

Things you have to do to get all the way to Africa and back.   I have at certain times  accumualted  a sizeable amount of Northwest/KLM World Perks frequent flyer miles.  Sometimes those miles can get me about halfway through my trip to Africa and back (that’s been termed “Halfrica”).  The only direct flights from […]

Let me introduce you to John Matthew.  John Matthew ni sauti yangu = my voice in Swahili.  John has been an interpeter for me and many, many other Americans who have come to Sakila for many years.  If you have ever had to use an interpeter you know that they are more valuable than words can express.  […]

Bags of rice and other supplies At long last after four months since send-off, the three containers arrived from the Port of Seattle.  These containers had been loaded in Poulsbo, Washington in March, but it took this length of time for them to arrive in Sakila.  If you could hear the whole saga of the journey […]

First of all…….To those of you who know Eliudi’s wife, Mama Helen, please pray.  She is very ill and in the hospital. (We NEED to get the new hospital built!) A huge thanks to all the great people that I met in South Africa.  I am tempted to start naming all of them ( and I […]

Phew!!!!!!! South Africa is both beautiful and busy.  Right now I am hurrying as I write because I am on someone else’s computer.  I have been able to meet many people who are like-minded as we are within Hope for Change.  I attended the Mercy Alliance Summit  in Jeffrey Bay earlier in the week.  Many […]

Does this make me the Village Voice?   Sitting in Sakila in the late afternoon with Kilimanjaro behind me and the villagers gathered for the afternoon “kahawa” (coffee) time in front of me. I can hear them laughing and joking, talking about the news of the day and getting ready to then go home to dinner.  A great time […]

From this picture you can’t see the road, but it is there.  This the road from the Kilimanjaro Airport.  Very near the location of this picture New Hope International Hospital is being built (there will be more pictures later.)  Further up the road there is a little village Kikititi, at Kikititi you take the turn […]

How would you like to see this sight as you go for a walk in the cool of the evening?  On a clear day from the village of Sakila this is the view of Mt. Kilimanjaro.  So here is a proposal for all of you adventurous souls.  Come with me (us) to Africa and while we are […]

Okay, now what is the first thing you see when you look at this picture.  This is not a trick question.  From some of the people you see SMILES!  Smiles, and they aren’t fake.  We drove hours and hours, and HOURS  to go to this village that is somewhere near the Kenya/Tanzania border.  There is […]