lukundane

On Friday I went to an event created by the founder of Tamhia orphanage called the widows project and lukundane. All the proceeds from this event go to support the orphanage and the widows in Usa River, Tanzania. The event was pretty awesome. There is a cultural dancing group that performs for almost 3 hours with different tribal dances from all over Africa. In this group there is a band with traditional Tanzanian instruments and then 3 male and 3 females dances. The students from the local vocational school prepare the meal for us as part of one of their daily lessons. They fixed soup, croutons, bread, rice, cabbage, chicken, and some other items for us. It was pretty amazing. They have a bar there which serves beer, banana beer which is 10% alcohol, and coke. Everything that exists at lukundane was built with the help of volunteers donations that they were able to raise. This event occurs every Friday. There are 4 children from the orphanage that are allowed to attend based on behavior so it becomes a real treat. We buy the food for the children as well as a coca-cola. They love it. After the dancing everyone just sits around and hangs out. When it starts getting later in the evening a bonfire is built to help keep warm because it gets surprisingly cold here at night and in the morning. It was a pretty cool thing to see. Also, Mount Meru looked pretty awesome today. We have not been able to see the summit recently because of all the clouds, but they broke today and the top looked awesome.