Better to eat the goats before they die from hunger. I've traveled this road when the mud was hubcap deep from all the rain and the mountain forests were so wet that they belched their steamy excess into the noon heat of the day. Now, every green thing in Karatu is turned to dust. Eden is burned up. Lutherans friends and others in Karatu are hungry.
Children are the first to feel it, and the first to die from it.
Lutheran Parish south of Moshi is a dusty wasteland. Men and older boys have taken their cows far away in hopes of finding pasture. Only the women, the very young and the very old remain. People will not survive here without help. A few fortunate families have animals to sell, but starving animals bring little and the cost of maize flour has tripled.