It s those angry outbursts that make other people afraid, she said. Overall, she commented, MLH employees couldn t help the people so much if their work were only a job. She said it s obvious they work out of love. Akyoo said that he d seen technologies in the MLH system that could help his people, but 95 percent of Tanzanians are farmer-peasants. Farming there is subsistence agriculture, practiced on only four percent of the country s land area, he said.
Farmers can t even feed the whole country.
Without electricity in many areas, Tanzanians need ways to adapt technologies to their circumstances or to invent other technologies. They need to develop training systems so people know how to deal with disabilities, Akyoo said. He hopes Martin Luther Homes can find a way to share the expertise acquired over the 75 years it has been serving these special people. The MLH Foundation is supporting efforts to offer supports to Tanzanian groups providing services to people with developmental disabilities. In either case, you will receive a written acknowledgement of your gift.