December 2019
Dear friends and supporters, before the year ends, a few more messages from us. The great heat and drought continues. We had the last rain 12 days ago and it is over 30 degrees every day and the sun is just very hot now that [...]
September 2019
Dear Friends, The DROUGHT The number one topic in the past few weeks has been the drought. The extent of a very poor rain season is becoming more and more evident. The little harvest the people did have is now used up and hunger is [...]
Juli 2019
Dear Friends the terrible rainy season is evident all around us. All our streams and dams are dried out. Even our biggest dam, which hasn't dried out in the last 18 years, only has a muddy puddle. On the right is the dam wall and [...]
June 2019
Dear friends How do we measure success as teachers? Not so easy. A friend, Dr Phil Thuma from Macha Mission hospital explained that to me years ago like this: I feel sorry for you teachers. Yes as doctor I see patients dying, but I also [...]
May 2019
Dear friends, Since the 8th of May we are back from our visits in Germany and Switzerland. We had a wonderful time visiting friends and received much encouragement. To take a boat ride down the Elbe river from Königstein to Pirna with our two grandchildren [...]
March 2019
Dear Friends Requests about the Weather In the past few weeks we have have had several requests about the weather here. Three weeks ago we were hoping that we would at least get the last trails from the devastating tropical storm over Mozambique. Sadly it [...]
February 2019
Dear Friends it is long over due that we write to you seeing as the new year isn't so new any more. We are experiencing the driest rainy season since I started my recordings 38 years ago. In the north of Zambia it is raining [...]