Dry season

It is the dry season in Tanzania. Out in the Maasai bush, we have heard reports that the people are becoming desperate for water. Because there has been no rain, the grasses have dried up. Thus, the men and boys leave their bomas (home compounds) to take the cattle and the goats in search for grazing land. They will be gone from their homes until the rains return.


Unfortunately, this means that the women and the children are left home with no animals (no source of milk or meat), with no men and boys, with no food. . .left to starve.



In one area near Mairowa, the women have to awaken very early. They begin walking before 4:00 am, in order to arrive at the water hole (mud pit?) while there is still water. If they arrive too late, the seeping water hole will either already be drained by other desperate people, or the heat of the day will have parched the land and dried their only source of water for the day.