Etanga Development Foundation

Field notes, Friday. Four days until I fly to Namibia. This is EDF's first trip since the 501(c)(3) came through. This photo is a distribution day in Etanga: people sitting in the shade, waiting on a list the community wrote itself. #Namibia #Kunene

What this week covered: buying the goats in Namibia so the money stays local, food for the deep end of the dry season, and Patricia Korukuve calling the meeting before anything moves. What a gift buys: $25 a school kit, $50 feeds a family a month, $75 a goat.

A goat keeps working after the day it arrives. Milk in the morning. An animal sold in a hard month so a school fee gets paid. The community names which family comes first. $75 buys one. Walk with us. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/walk-with-us-etanga-development-foundation #Namibia #OvaHimba

Patricia Korukuve runs our center in Etanga. She calls the meeting before anything moves: who needs food first, whose child is out of school. On August 18 I sit in that circle. Walk with us. #Namibia #Kunene https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/walk-with-us-etanga-development-foundation

We buy the goats in Namibia, so the money stays local. The community decides which family gets the first animals. $75 buys a goat. A herd is savings and the next meal. Walk with us. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati... #Namibia #OvaHimba

In Etanga, August is the deep end of the dry season. Nothing grows now, so food is bought, not harvested. $50 puts maize meal and cooking oil in one family's home for a month. Walk with us. https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/walk-with-us-etanga-development-foundation #Namibia #Kunene

Eight days out. On August 18 I land in Namibia, EDF's first trip since we became a 501(c)(3). In Etanga I sit with Chief Vemuii Tjambiru and we go through the list together. #Namibia #OvaHimba Walk with us. https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/walk-with-us-etanga-development-foundation

Field notes before we fly. In two weeks I land in Etanga for EDF's first trip since we became a 501(c)(3). Here is what your gifts are already building on the ground. #Namibia #Kunene

What a gift buys, plainly: a uniform and a year of fees keep one child in school. A starter herd of goats gives a family milk, income, and a herd that grows. Not charity. A partnership that compounds.

Field notes before we fly. In two weeks I land in Etanga for EDF's first trip since we became a 501(c)(3). Here is what your gifts are already building on the ground. #Namibia #Kunene

An elder in Etanga holds what no archive does: the names, the seasons, how a family reads the land. The Heritage Center we are building keeps it with the community, not for it. Walk with us. https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/walk-with-us-etanga-development-foundation #Namibia #Africa

In Etanga, this is the age school either continues or quietly stops. A uniform and fees decide it. EDF covers both so a child stays in class, with the community not for it. Walk with us. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati... #Namibia #Nonprofit

Field Notes, Friday. Three and a half weeks from now I fly to Etanga, our first trip since becoming a 501(c)(3). Here is what year one is built from, in plain terms: herds, school gates, and food that reaches a family before the dry season does. #Namibia #Kunene

Before the rains return, dry-season food: maize meal and cooking oil reaching Etanga when the gardens are spent and the herds are thin. Then school fees and uniforms. In Etanga, a uniform can decide whether a child is let through the school gate.

Field Notes, Friday. Three and a half weeks from now I fly to Etanga, our first trip since becoming a 501(c)(3). Here is what year one is built from, in plain terms: herds, school gates, and food that reaches a family before the dry season does. #Namibia #Kunene

In Etanga, a school uniform can decide whether a child is let through the gate or turned away. Fees and a uniform are often all that stand between a kid and the classroom. Walk with us. #Namibia #Kunene www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...