The wonderful faces of Yaloke

When the airplane arrives in Yaloke, everyone comes for the distraction it provides. Here are some of the people of Yaloke

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3The faces of Yaloke,

and a young boy with 4

his knife, walking down the road

 

She has come to visit Valerie. She is Zenaba, a Fulani, from the largest tribe of nomadic people in the world. I asked..her how old the girls are when they marry and she said her daughter married at 15 and is expecting a child. The boys she said, are shy when they marry, and hide under cloths. She draped hers over her head and face to show me. The girls come home to live with their mother for a year after the child is born, so that the husbands are free to continue with their livestock. In Yaloke, there is a nutrition program at the mission hospital (below) for the Fulani and their children.

Valerie told me how "They have migrated toward roads and villages because of bandits that have kidnapped their children for ransom for their cattle. Since cattle was their main food source they are now very malnourished. This has given an opportunity for the church to reach out to them. Right here at Yaloke the outreach is sponsored mainly by the Grace Brethern Church although there is one family with the Evangelical Covenant, and another with the Evangelical Free Church. Zenaba has given the missionaries opportunities to share the "Jesus Film" in her Islamic village. She also enjoys walking around with a tape recorder listening to scriptures in the Fulfulde language, her tribal language. The nutrition center is here to provide nutrition but also with hopes of developing relationships with the Fulani people so they can hear the gospel.

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