Tieme is a nurse who has served at Nazarene Hospital for 37 years. That's a long time! It's time for her to retire and she has had to make a decision about where to live. She is a widow and has no traditional family land to return to. It has been an agonizing process for her to find land and hire a carpenter to build her a small house. Leaving Kudjip Nazarene Hospital is like leaving her family.
Last Saturday, while Andy was on call, I drove a team of people, who love Tieme, to her new place in Minj, about a 30 minute drive away. She has a huge garden plot that needed lots of work before it could be planted. The men did the traditional manly work of digging the drainage ditches called barets. The women cleared weeds and burned brush. We worked throughout the morning and then enjoyed a 'garden luncheon' of rice, tuna, homemade bread and cake.
It was a good day.
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