Ngirisi Village

We took a tour of Ngirisi Villiage, a village of 2000 people near Arusha. The people of Ngirisi are of Maasai descent, and still speak the Maasai language, but are no longer nomadic.


Hendrick, our guide for the Ngirisi Village tour, shows us a system for extracting methane gas for cooking from cow manure

Hendrick and village boys

houses in the village

Dispensary (health clinic)

Lutheran church

Hendrick drumming inside the church

village house

village houses

kitchen inside village house

bedroom inside village house

widow and her daugther in doorway of their house

The village people get their water from this pipe

Farming on the hillside

Movie theatre

Elementary school

Schoolboys

Women carrying wood

School children

Hendrick and Melinda walking through the village

The lunch that was served to us at the mayor's house

Mark and Melinda in the mayor's house

Mayor Lotti's house

A girl at the house with the methane system

Hendrick shows us the fig tree to which Maasai people pray

Beehive

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