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Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Etanga Primary: 240 students, some walking 40 km on weekends because the hostel runs out of food. We paid a full year of school and hostel fees for 7 children who have never attended. The principal counts 40 to 50 more. $100 USD keeps one child there a year: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

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Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A backyard in Niles, a long table, and a night for Etanga. Thank you Biek families, the Niles-Buchanan YMCA community, Westley Leon Studios, and Third Coast Heating and Air. Walk with us: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

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Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Field notes, Friday. Four days until I fly to Namibia. This is EDF's first trip since the 501(c)(3) came through. This photo is a distribution day in Etanga: people sitting in the shade, waiting on a list the community wrote itself. #Namibia #Kunene

Members of the Etanga community sit together in camp chairs in the shade on a distribution day, supplies at their feet, with the dry Kunene landscape behind them.

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Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A goat keeps working after the day it arrives. Milk in the morning. An animal sold in a hard month so a school fee gets paid. The community names which family comes first. $75 buys one. Walk with us. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/walk-with-us-etanga-development-foundation #Namibia #OvaHimba

An OvaHimba woman milks a cow by hand at a homestead in the Kunene region of Namibia.

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Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

August is the deep end of the dry season in Etanga. Food is bought, not harvested. Maize meal and cooking oil, going out to the families the community named first. Walk with us. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

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Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Patricia Korukuve runs our center in Etanga. She calls the meeting before anything moves: who needs food first, whose child is out of school. On August 18 I sit in that circle. Walk with us. #Namibia #Kunene www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/w…

Patricia Korukuve, EDF Center Director, stands in a red dress addressing the seated Etanga community outdoors in the Kunene.

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Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We buy the goats in Namibia, so the money stays local. The community decides which family gets the first animals. $75 buys a goat. A herd is savings and the next meal. Walk with us. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati... #Namibia #OvaHimba

Goats penned at a livestock market in Namibia, with community members standing at the rails on a buying day.

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Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In Etanga, August is the deep end of the dry season. Nothing grows now, so food is bought, not harvested. $50 puts maize meal and cooking oil in one family's home for a month. Walk with us. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/w… #Namibia #Kunene

The sun sets behind a hill in Namibia Kunene region.

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Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Eight days out. On August 18 I land in Namibia, EDF's first trip since we became a 501(c)(3). In Etanga I sit with Chief Vemuii Tjambiru and we go through the list together. #Namibia #OvaHimba Walk with us. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/w…

EDF founder Tony Beall with Chief Vemuii Tjambiru and a community member at sunset in the Kunene.

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Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Field notes before we fly. In two weeks I land in Etanga for EDF's first trip since we became a 501(c)(3). Here is what your gifts are already building on the ground. #Namibia #Kunene

Goats loaded in a pickup for distribution to Etanga families.

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Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

An elder in Etanga holds what no archive does: the names, the seasons, how a family reads the land. The Heritage Center we are building keeps it with the community, not for it. Walk with us. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/w… #Namibia #Africa

An OvaHimba elder stands by a wooden livestock kraal in Etanga.

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Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In Etanga, this is the age school either continues or quietly stops. A uniform and fees decide it. EDF covers both so a child stays in class, with the community not for it. Walk with us. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati... #Namibia #Nonprofit

A young person looks toward the camera in warm afternoon light.

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Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In Etanga, a cow is not charity. It is milk, income, and a family that can stand on its own. Your tax-deductible gift helps rebuild the herd. Walk with us. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati... #Namibia

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Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Distribution day in Etanga. She held each piece to the light and picked what fit her family. Nothing is handed down here, the community sorts and shares it together. #Namibia #Kunene Walk with us. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

An Etanga community member smiles as she holds up clothing beside a loaded vehicle on a distribution day in the Kunene.

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Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Patricia Korukuve runs the meetings in Etanga. Before a goat or a bag of maize meal moves, the community decides together what comes next. With the community, not for it. Walk with us. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati... #Namibia #Kunene #Africa

Patricia Korukuve, EDF Center Director, speaks to a gathering of the Etanga community outdoors in the Kunene.

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Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Field Notes, Friday. Three and a half weeks from now I fly to Etanga, our first trip since becoming a 501(c)(3). Here is what year one is built from, in plain terms: herds, school gates, and food that reaches a family before the dry season does. #Namibia #Kunene

A herder smiles among his goats in the Kunene.

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Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In Etanga, a family's herd is savings, status, and the next meal. We are helping restart herds, goat by goat, with the community, not for it. #Namibia #OvaHimba Walk with us. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

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