William and his wife are Islamic and they invited us to visit their home during the recent Muslim Holiday of Eid al-Adha, which commemorates Abraham's obedience to God. They live in a village surrounded by matoke fields (matoke is the staple starch in the part of the country...it's sort of like a plantain banana).
Here you see Diego and William in front of William's House...
Amongst the matoke fields...
This is William's family...
Jessica, Diego, and Matt enjoy the afternoon conversation...
Everyone was very welcoming of Zephaniah...
Zeph kept the kids busy as he explored the house...
Shanea, William's oldest daughter, took Zeph under her wing. She showed Zeph their goats and Zeph quickly became very attached to her.
William is making mud bricks to build a chicken coup so that he and his family have another source of income. Making bricks by hand is tedius, back-breaking work. He showed us how it is done...
William, Hennifa, and their family were wonderful hosts and we thoroughly enjoyed our time with them. Me and Jess took a quick snap with Hennifa before heading home...
1 comments:
what a very hard worker William is. I remember helping my dad make some bricks for a herb garden border. It took many days and we had cement and mixer and a hose to help us!
How wonderful to be able to be with them, to meet the family and for Zeph to connect one more way with your African "roots"! It is so interesting to me that Islam honors Abraham.....
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