Ruwa

is a little rural community just outside Harare, where we spent the day yesterday seing how people live and looking at the work of Kufunda there. A large part of the community used to be one big farm, that was taking away from their owners a few years ago. The farm houses still exist. The main house, a huge beautiful spanish-style house, is used as a school now. The classrooms are far too small for so many children and there are only few benches and tables in some of the classrooms. The house is slowly falling apart because nobody seems to have cleaned, painted or repaired anything since it given to its new owners.
The school does not have the means to provide lunch for the children, so most of them use the lunchbreak to play instead of to eat. And they seem to have a lot of fun doing that.
Only very few of the fields are still being used to grow food and the water, that is desperatedly needed for agriculture has stopped running.
People are nice and friendly and we were immediately invited to try the fresh peanut butter that was being produced in a little pot in the kitchen on one of the little farms. Or let's say houses with a little garden. And they insisted that we had lunch with them: sadza and porridge to eat with your hands.