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Goshen College

Musoma [part 1]

March 24, 2017

There are four students in and around Musoma.  We are visiting their work sites and families as their schedules permit.

Maddy is working at the KMT Musoma Press, on the campus of the Mennonite Theological College of East Africa (MTCEA) here in Nyabange.  She just finished typing the manuscript for a physics textbook!  In 1968 the Mennonites assembled a collection of gospel hymns — Tenzi za Rohoni — which is still in print and in use in many Protestant churches throughout Tanzania.

Maddy’s mother works for the Scripture Union translating from Swahili to Jita.  Her father is an engineer who is frequently working in Dar es Salaam.

Maddy, the press manager, and her supervisor Thomas in front of their offset printer
Thomas, who is also a choirmaster, holds a copy of the Tenzi
Maddy with her host mother Neema
You can see Lake Victoria in the distance from the road in front of Maddy’s house
With host siblings

Rachel is living in Nyabange.  Her mother is a seamstress and her father teaches in Bunda, about an hour away.  She is volunteering at a number of places: At the small medical dispensary in Nyabange, and leading English conversation with Form 2 students at Paroma secondary school.  She can easily walk either place.

With host sister Pai and host mother
With her Form 2 English class
Dispensary, founded by KMT
With Dr. Alfred

 

Last week we had lunch together with all the Musoma folks, and Ga, who lives just 45 minutes away in Kiabakari.

Lunch at the Anglican Rehema Cafe in Musoma