Tuesday 3rd
December
I spent the morning talking to Mrs Sianga and Killian. Mrs Sianga
attended the funerals of her relatives at the weekend. It appears
that they ate peanuts which where to be used as seed and presumably
were coated with toxic chemicals – it makes you wonder what we are
using to increase the yield of our crops!
We talked about the current situation. Mrs Sianga's mother said that
she had never experienced anything like it in her lifetime! Someone
came to Mrs. Sianga's farm saying that they had had nothing to eat
for three days. It will be March before there is another harvest –
assuming that, unlike last year, there will be one this year. How
many people will not survive until then we can only imagine.
I took the opportunity to see the progress of the water project. Some
guys had managed to raise the water tank about ¾ of the way up the
stand! I said hallo to some of the children.
People are becoming desperate and people are doing anything to get
food. There are a lot of thefts and these no doubt will get worse as
desperation increases.
I managed some tea and a meal when power came on at 15hrs – though
Mrs Sianga provide a cup of tea earlier. I connected to the Internet,
but it soon gave up - and then power went!!
Please keep the people of Monze and the surrounding area in your
prayers.
Chris
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