Vocational Skills Training
Construction and carpentry
Brick-laying Moulding bricks Inacio made this house and entrance
Healthy dwelling
Upon arrival amongst the Mukuando, Inacio and Idalina built their house of sun-baked bricks in a rectangular shape. The local people shook their heads and laughed. "You will die of cold in there," they said.
Today they learn and copy his way of building because it is:
  • Handmade storage basketmore practical
  • warmer
  • safer (no need of an indoor fire all night which causes respiratory problems)
  • longer lasting
  • preserves their forestry resources

The Mukuando are an industrious people. They produce some woodwork and beautiful baskets. Anybody willing to build upon and improve their skills is most welcome.
Pupils and tutor The world is the classroom Apprentice
Bread
Agriculture
Inacio planted sweet potatoes. "Why in the world," the Mukuando wondered, "would anybody bury food for six months?" But harvest time had them all aghast--the potatoes produced many young ones, enough to eat, to give away and to barter with. Now that was something to get excited about. Eventually they said to Inacio "We are tired of buying your potatoes. We want to plant our own. Teach us."

It wasn't much different with the bananas, onions and green leaves.
Sesame
Grinding flower
 Maize (corn)
Building an airstrip
In 1997 YWAM submitted a project proposal to the World Food Program. Even though the Food For Work project took a year to complete it was a huge success. A MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) pilot did some research and laid down specifications, upon which the Mukuando uprooted trees, cut the brush, levelled the ground and marked the outlines of the runway with stones. A pole was set up with a windhose and the first inauguration flight took place. The occasion was celebrated with much dancing and the presence of MAF pilots and government officials (who subsequently approved the airstrip). The same year saw insufficient rains, causing famine. The men got food in exchange for their labour--it was God's ever so timely provision .
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