Mavuno Village: Camping Trip for Volunteers (By Marco John)

All the Mavuno volunteers went to the Serengeti National Park. It was a two day camping and hunting trip. As we arrived in the park, we divided in two groups. The first group remained at our camp site to clean-up the area, prepare dinner, and ensure security. The second group took off for hunting, but the area was voided of animals. This was Monday evening. Soon after dinner, we had a wonderful praise and worship festival. As we were singing, Dan was busy making tea for everybody. After the singing, everybody went to bed. Marco and Daudi snored like the tractor farming Mavuno sunflower gardens.
Next morning, the second group went hunting. But again, there weren’t any animals in the hunting area. Instead, dogs from several homes showed up and tried to chase our car. We had a strange experience, during our hunting trip. We met two boys (approximately 17 years old). They were walking in the park so the ranger asked where they were heading to. They said they were going to talk to their god who would give them rain (they were traditional rain makers). We talked with them for a little while. They showed us their local medicine,but revealed that the medicine will harm us if we touched it. They showed us the medicine and we took a few pictures with them. Dan told them about Jesus and that everything was created by God; even rain comes from Him. They said they havetheir own beliefs. This was a new experience to most of us.
It was a trip full of fun. We did all the following: played cards, swung, sang, and target practiced.

Heroes of the Trip:
Dan-Drinking and making tea, climbing the tree, swinging, smelling and touching the “rain medicine”

Masumbuko-Swinging
Gabriel-Climbing a tree and target shooting

Malucha-Cooking rice, taking pictures, and making jokes
Daudi- Snoring and washing dishes
Marco-Washing rice, snoring, eating mangoes and making jokes

Musa- Swinging and Singing

Daniel- Climbing the tree

John- Taking pictures and organizing the praise and worship festival

Mashaka- Karate

Making camp

Director Dan having fun on the swing

Masumbuko looking for animals

Musa testing the swing

Getting Daniel up the tree

Malucha making dinner

Daniel and Musa playing cards

Singing: (from left back) Doudi, John, Marco, Daniel (cant really see him), Musa, Malucha, (right from back to front) Masumbuko (cant really see him) Mashaka, Gabriel

(left to back) Daniel, Musa, Malucha (right back) Gabriel, Mashaka (you