On our way back up north, after the accident, we were able to stay overnight with Linda, an AIM missionary in Grootfontein, and see the work she is doing there.
She is involved in a church plant there and one of the other things she has done, in the ten years that she has been there, is to set up and run a soup kitchen at one of the secondary schools.
School here starts at 7.00am and goes until 1.00pm, with a break at 10.30am. She has managed to get a bunch of the local women together and every morning at break time they make porridge for the children in two huge cauldrons (you can see one of them in the bottom picture). It has become so popular that the local primary school kids now come over after the secondary school kids have been fed. They feed, on average, up to 600 children every day, guaranteeing them at least one good meal.
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