Sunday 25 March 2007

Coffin for a Baby


Today we woke up to the sound of hammering and sawing going on in the back yard. Investigations lead us to find the farm carpenter in the process of making a coffin for a two-year old who had died on Saturday, apparently from malaria, in a village near the school; so the funeral was to be this afternoon.


Harley and Milt went to church at Kakulu Pentecostal while Logan and I went for a 9 km walk. A circular route which took in the school where we checked on further progress on the building project. (The builder is a Seventh Day Adventist so had taken Saturday off to go to church and was back on the job on Sunday.)



On our way from there we met people going home from another church so we chatted to them as we walked and before going our separate way. It was a very hot day so good to have a swim in the pool when we got back to the house. Late in the afternoon Harley and I went to collect water samples from three wells so that we could take them through to Lusaka on Monday morning for testing.

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