2 tasks here - find leon's birthplace... the mvumi hospital, which was a mission hospital and the best place to have a little one when leon popped out back in the 70's.
As photo 1 shows - we found it :-)
the other task was to find Molleni - she's the matron of the girls school, but as school is on holidays and the rains have come, she was in her shamba (field). So we asked (well, luke did) an askari (guard) where we could go, and he eventually came with us to show us where. We travelled through many shamba villages to her one - which is right on the road slaves used to be taken along, and missionaries used to travel on (john briggs etc.) - missios would try and buy/free slaves when they could.
Anyways, we found molleni (pic 2) and her house built this year (pic 3) and she showed us her shamba with mahindi (corn) and mangoes and rice and millet.... very clever.
then we connected her via the handy mobile phone to hugh and dorothy back home :-)
she was very happy.
Awesome detective work! Gr8 to visit these places. did fiona go to molleni's school?
ReplyDeletei miss mvumi! did you get to look around the school, meet the teachers etc? i loved living in that village. sigh... so jealous...
ReplyDeletewe didn't really look around the school much because we wanted to find molleni.
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