Aneti.
This is Aneti, Judah’s caregiver while we’re in class here at Rivervalley Campsite in Iringa. When we first arrived in Dar for our orientation it wasn’t easy to let others care for Judah. We were in a country we had never visited and handing him over to people we had never met! Still, we did it, and Judah coped even though our schedule was much less regulated and those caring for Judah changed.
So Aneti has really been a blessing to us here. He still fusses a bit when we send him off in the morning but he really likes Dada Aneti (dada means ‘sister’, fathers are “baba”). She has patiently endured our elementary Swahili and Loretta also got a chance to visit her home in a village nearby as well as meet her mom and son, Colins.
