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HEAVY LOAD - Joan Stewart of the Seaforth area found it hard lo relate 10 some of the
loads African women must carry dairy to survive. She just returned from a three-week
Canadian Foodgrains Bank study tour.
Foodgrains trip to Africa
enlightening experience
BY GREGOR CAMPBELL
Expositor Staff
When Joan Stewart
returned from pans north and
eastern Africa that hadn't
hadn't seen a drop of water
for five months she needed a
sump pump. Her basement
was full of it because of a
recent record rainfall here in
Huron County.
She was in Africa for the
first time, from the end of
January until the third week
of last Month,' with five other
Canadians on a food study
tour organized by the
Canadian Foodgrains Bank, a
Christian charitable organiza-
iion.--.
Water. or the lack thereof,
particularly running water,
wasn't the only difference
between here and there she
experienced in Ethiopia,
Kenya and Tanzania.
She broke her arm while on
tour so can now show you,
first-hand, how rich we all
are in comparison to almost
everybody over there when it
comes to simple health care,
now matter how much
maligned our changing
Ontario system may be.
She kept the splint she had
to make do with, fashioned
out of the corner of a card-
board box. Some oldie sights
she saw when Foodgrains
tour officials eventually got
her to a "proper" hospital in
Ethiopia. also still give her
pause.
Stewart, who lives just east
of town at RR 2 Seaforth, is
not quick to judge or jump to
conclusions and says she is
still digesting her trip.
"We live in a very nice pan
of the world here," she sug-
gests.
"It has left me with a desire
to learn a lot more about
Africa, especially the
Ethiopian Orthodox Church."
Stewart attends Northside
United Church. Canadian
Foodgrains Bank, very active
around here. is a partnership
of 13 churches, a federally
incorporated, non-profit cor-
poration registered as a chari-
table organization. The relief
and development agency
facilitates the collection and
distribution of grain and
other agricultural commodi-
ties to the hungry.
The fields around Stewart's
home are collectively used by
area fanners in the continu-
ing Christian local
Foodgrains project.
A HEAVY LOAD
Stewart calls her African
trip "an emotional experi-
ence."
She saw parts of Tanzania
where oxen are only now
being introduced to 'modern-
ize" agdcultune.
In her • 12 days in Ethiopia
she ate a bread called Injura,
pizza/pancake-like and about
a quarter -inch thick, cooked
on an open fire, made from
their staple grain called left,
then mixed with water and
allowed to ferment.
She saw fields harvested by
hand where they leave the
weeds standing, so as to fix
nitrogen to the soil.
Everywhere there were peo-
ple-
Where there is very little
electricity, and bulbs are even
then rare, you rise and sleep
with the sun in rural Africa.
She stayed in mud and stick
dwellings, with roofs
thatched with cow dung.
She saw few fences, and
lots of land being worked by
hand that over here we
wouldn't bother with. The
only tractors she saw in
Ethiopia were on experimen-
tal farms.
She saw women who will
walk up to 50 kilometres for
water, enough only for their
families' daily needs, then
carry it back, a heavy load.
MANY I MI RBSSIONS
She saw erosion, moun-
tains, terraced farming, dam -
sites that held little water, and
visited nurseries where the
women and men work with
seedlings for reforestation.
She saw land that had agri-
cultural "potential."
She visited the beginnings
of the Blue Nile, a rugged
country she calls "gorgeous."
She learned Kenya is more
modernized than Ethiopia
because it developed differ-
ently, colonized as it was by
the British.
She saw some lions.
She visited two refugee
camps, "well run," in
Tanzania, one near Burundi
for 65,000, where once every
14 days, 450 -metric tonnes
of food is directed through
the World Food Program and
Christian relief, providing for
a diet of 1,900 caloriesfor
people, who aren't allowed to
leave.
She learned of efforts to
improve the lot of these peo-
ple, building roads and such,
thwarted because they were
too close to reserves, which
had more political clout in
their .country of refuge.
She gained an appreciation
of the logistical difficulties of
getting supplies by truck to
remote rural spots, on roads
that we would not recognize
as such.
Near the end of her trip in
Kenya she saw a coffee farm,
a team farm and a 100 -acre
rose farm.
She went to a restaurant
where she ate crocodile,
zebra (tastes like chicken)
and "heartabeast" (?), an
antelope -like animal, forked
off a spit.
The three weeks left her
with a lot of impressions.
PROUD PEOPLE
When she first arrived in
Ethiopia, she admits to a little
"apprehension," knowing of
the civil war that ended there
in 1991. Television images of
famine, devastation and vio-
lence were in the back of her
mind. This anxiety increased
early in the trip when the bus
the six Canadians were on
had a flat tire, and was soon
surrounded by many people.
They say the cities still
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