Eventually in our stroll around Samo, our group connected with up with some the UM Communications reporters who wanted to walk with us and photograph and video some from the village. We came to a school were the teachers who lived on site had received nets and were using them for their children. One teacher said he was telling his students that if they received a net to beg their parents to put it up if it hadn’t been hung yet.
We next came to another woman who had a net but hadn’t hung because she was very pregnant and couldn’t reach the rafters in order to hang it yet. Her husband was away working in some fields for a few days. So, the reporters wanted to capture us helping her and interviewed me afterwards. Then they wanted to interview her but she only spoke a tribal language, Jabu (spelling??). So, picture this: We are in an African village and a mud hut structure with a thatch roof. A camera is filming a very pregnant woman and her 3 year old. The mother has a wireless lapel mike on her She is speaking Jabu. A church member is translating Jabu to French. Our interpreter is translating French to English. This goes back and forth for a number of questions. Amazing.
Another great day of a different experience in Africa. Let me wrap this up by saying how rewarding it has been to be at four different sites having four totally different experiences and learning so many lessons on life and faith.
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