Life in the village

various pictures from the life in the village

The village of Ngahokora is situated in Songea District, Ruvuma Region,
in South-western Tanzania. It has around 2000 inhabitants

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

small children playing together

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

man and wife at their home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a village project, making bricks for an extension of the school

 

 

 

 

though small, the maduka (shops) of the village
 offers plenty of variaties

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

thatching a roof

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bikes are the preferred means of transport,
 here 4-on-1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

there is plenty of firewood, yet the rules has that it is to be collected from the surrounding forests,
 not from within the village

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

children are happy to be taken pictures of

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a typical family, though most of the children
 must have played somewhere else

 

 

 

 

 

a proud mother with her two first-borns

 

 

 

 

 

 

mother and daughter; being there in 1996, I witnessed the small girl, then a baby, having degedege, strong fever convulsions at the clinic; now she is a fine little girl

 

 

 

 

who said that an old man cannot
 stand upside down?