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Front the Minister's Study
Seeing our world from new perspective
By Rev. Joan Golden
Brussels/Ethel United Church
There are times we see our world
in a new perspective through the
help of someone else. The past two
weeks Huron-Perth Presbytery has
hosted a visitor from Tanzania
through a program called "Face to
Face" of the United Church of
Canada.
Mr. Tieno "Makanya" Bita arrived
in our area May 29 and visited many
parts of Huron and Perth Counties as
he both answered questions and
asked questions. In these
conversations I certainly learned
much not only about the area he
works and lives in Tanzania but
about our'own area.
This past Saturday we had the
pleasure of having Makanya visit the
Ethel/Brussels pastoral charge. Our
first stop was the environmental
classroom at Grey Central School
with Alice McDowell as one of our
guides through this area. We learned
that Grey Central is located on 22-
areas of land and is listed as one of
the top 10 elementary schools in
Canada because of their work on this
environmental area.
As we toured inside the school
there were many questions asked by
Makanya as we viewed the learning
centres, computer areas and books.
Schoolrooms in the areas he works
in basically have a blackboard, desk
and some seating for students. They
bring with them their exercise books,
pens or pencils. Touring with us
were two students from Grey
Central, Emily Baker and Alyssa
Diehl who will have insights to share
also from this experience.
In the afternoon we toured
Bedard's dairy farm near Monkton.
He asked about average production
per cow and was comparing their 30
litres a day with cows in Tanzania
that give only about a litre a day. The
cows in Tanzania are much smaller
than the Holsteins we saw.
He explained his work in trying to
upgrade their production ' by
introducing new breeding stock and
better feeding. The farmers in his
area take cattle out to pasture where
they can find good grazing and bring
them back in the evening.
Our next stops were at Jack and
Audrey Cardiffs' and at Rob and
Allyson Cardiffs' sheep operation.
Makanya asked many questions
about feeding techniques. their
marketing strategy and their storage
systems. With interest he
investigated the freezer that Rob had
built with the help of his family that
stored the sheep milk before he had
regular pick up.
His work in Tanzania is also on
better food storage and food
preservation.
He noted with interest the average
milk production of sheep was a litre
a day and compared 'that to the cows
in his region.
Makanya works as executive
director of the Youth Employment
and Food Production Foundation.
This agency serves what he terms as
'peasants' who have very low living
standards in terms of education,
income, transportation. environment
and , sanitation, housing, water
supply, health and malnutrition.
He explained earlier that people in
the villages usually build their
homes about five times. These are
homes built with small sticks,
cardboard or whatever materials they
can find. He is working with them to
build homes from blocks made of a
mud/straw mixture so they will last
longer.
Other work is supplying seed for
crops to be grown to feed their
families—even though food
preservation is a continuing
challenge. He is working with
villages and teaching them about
using cow dung to produce methane
gas which provides fuel for cooking
fires - no electrical plugs that we
take for granted in these areas. Some
of these projects are funded by
rotating loans that he has developed
with the people of the villages.
The Mission and Service Fund
from the United Church provides
funds that are seed monies for these
projects.
Makanya many times spoke of the
importance of partnership in his
work. We work in partnership as part
of the whole body of Christ. There
are times we look at the problems
and brokenness of the world and
wonder what difference we
personally can make. We make a
difference as soon as we care, as
soon as we listen to the stories and
become aware of the world around
us.
We need to hear the stories of how
the International Monetary Fund has
drained countries such as his and
others with interest payments—
Makanya did explain some of those
effects also.
I think it is important to be
reminded how we are all part of the
body of Christ in the world. We each
bring different and creative gifts to
the work of Christ in the world. 1
Corinthians 12 ends with an
encouragement to strive for greater
gifts that are for the benefit of all.
Then we are shown a more excellent
way as we are led into chapter 13
that tells us what love should be.
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