First, here are the hoes. The wood handles are easy to make and at the moment of the photo they only had four. Hence, they're holding the rest of them. We bought a tougher metal that lasts at least five years, as opposed to the cheaper kind that lasts one or two seasons.
Watering cans. The land is next to a river and since there aren't any really good irrigation systems in place, during the dry season a lot of the smaller plants take water by hand. So it goes.
Um, right. The Zikomo Project: Promoting peace and understanding one weapon of death at a time. (Actually, the panga knives are a multiple-use tool for farming, cooking, chopping . . . and possibly decapitation.) At the time of the picture I think someone had just insulted someone else's goat.
The bikes are so that Pastor Tembo and company can get around easily and cheaply. They live a good half hour walk from the market and main road, and after that's a minibus ride into town, which costs money. With bikes they can save time and money.
Thanks go to: Chris and Maria in Austin, MN for one bike; Mike and Sherri in Delaware for the other one. Sarah Grace in Chicago and Grete in Chicago for the watering cans. Ned and Rosemary in Twin Falls, ID for the hoes. Gretchen and James in Liberty, Missouri for the pangas.
And, this is me, acting like an idiot. What else are you going to do when you have ten machete-like instruments at hand?
