Dry season

I once again find myself struggling with a blog topic that I has all my research completed and enough pictures to keep my wonderful audience returning.  I have a couple of items I need to put on record before we move on to the topic today.  First up:  I will be making my yearly stateside…

USAID Solar Water Pump

This last week I got a chance to visit a site where USAID and various charities had put in a solar water pump system in a community.  The system was put in roughly two years ago and quit working several months ago.  I was going to see if I could find out what was wrong…

Conversations with Barnabas #8

Welcome back to Conversations with Barnabas Bear. A couple of items up front, the conversation is fictional (hopefully that was obvious) but are pulled from some of my conversations and observations during my time here in Tanzania.  The main purpose of these is to help everyone get to know the people in Tanzania a little…