Leserian (3), his brother Lesarupa, born in June, and his parents Samuel and Likeness live in Tanzania, in a part far outside of the district Kigamboni in Dar es Salaam, a city of 1,4 million inhabitants.

Through Couchsurfing, a website for travelers who prefer to live cheap and, above all, in close contact with the culture while they are on vacation, I have made contact with Samuel while I was still in Germany.

Hence, he became my local contact person and I could only hope that everything would go over as planned.
As agreed, he picked me up, helped me get settled in my new surroundings, showed me the city, that couldn’t have been more chaotic, himself and lastly proudly presented me with his modest home, which would now become my place to stay for the following days as well.

It was a “brick-ruin”, which he himself had built stone on stone: “Whenever I had

some money left, i added another stone. Everything you can see here, I built

completely on my own!” [...]

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Article by Alica Terörde