Report from Save Samburu: Small News but Positive The report below is a an aupdate from Save Samburu following the Samburu suffering to due to repeated attacks from all sides. Please keep on updating us. Facebook is turning our to be a very good way to sambaza happenings. Lets use every available media to communicate. DK.
Save Samburu
Posted: 24 Oct 2009 07:48 PM PDT
Last month the Samburu people of Losesia lost 3000 heads of cattle atop the loss of friends and relatives themselves. I just heard from Tina that some of those cattle have been found at a cattle market: 14 to be exact, and when I read further into Tina’s account, I found out that 19 cows were located in September. No, it doesn’t replace the lives of brothers and others lost (See September 17th and 23rd for some wrenching accounts) but retrieving those cows is a hope, a piece of happiness amidst the fear and gloom. They have been brought back to the small town of Archer’s Post and soon will be re-united with their owners.
Go to the top of this page and you will see how it feels to have your cattle torn from you. The women weeping are from Lerata, watching last March as the Kenyan police rounded up their cows, loaded them on lorries and drove away, forever. Cows are more than the Samburu’s bank account and food, they give you standing in society, are cherished, cosseted and sung over. Cattle are needed for weddings, to pay for university and more. They provide pleasure and sustenance in the present and hope for the future.
For a few in Losesia, a small portion of normality has just returned home. And that is something to give thanks for.
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