we welcome people of all nationals in New Zealand.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154228224795541&set=a.10150550979000541.652232.744380540&type=1&theater  we welcome people of all nationals in New Zealand. seen at the Auckland International airport.

Hangis

In New Zealand, our natives, the Maoris have adapted their version of volcano cooking called the Hangi.









I was teaching my ESOL adult students what a Hangi is.
I was pleasantly surprised that In South America, they also cook food in a similar way. In Peru, Felecites tells me they call it Pachamanca, and in Chile, Monica says they call it Curanto. My Samoa students call it Umu.
In my other blog, annkschin.blogspot.com, I wrote about Hangis and my book, Mail order Bride., and short story, Nadine in various posts, but I didn't have a closeup photo. Here I am fortunate that Ngarimu's cousin invited me to take as many photos as I wanted.
Here are pix of the hot pit.

Cooking for a storm, chicken, pork, mutton, potato, kumara, pumpkin, cabbage, wholesome food cooked on site. Food wrapped in paper and alumnium foil placed in a basket and steamed in the ground for hours from hot stones.

The Maoris got this idea of a hangi from the hot thermal volcanic grounds where eggs can be boiled by lowering into thermal pools. In a Hangi, a big pit or more than one square yard is dug in the ground. Timber is burned, and stones are heated. The baskets of food are put into the pit and covered with jute sacks. Dirt is dug on top of the pit. The food takes a few hours to cook. It looks like a smoking volcano.

wonderful women

This is my friend Manchala. She is a wonderful woman. In this book, there is a wonderful Indian woman, Manchala. I based my character on her.

I also wrote about a Kind Chinese woman. Come to think of it, I was writing about Manchala and me.

imprisoned in a solid wall

some of the oppressed women were kept in houses surrounded by thick volcanic rock walls,

ABC Wed for Tear Fund

 Daniel Walker , Speaker, Author of God in a Brothel.

www.tearfund.org.nz/

TEAR Fund NZ is a New Zealand based aid and development organisation, serving communites across Africa, Asia and South America.

A leading relief and development charity, working in partnership with Christian agencies and churches worldwide to tackle the causes and effects of poverty.

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ABC Letter T for Tear Fund

 Beth Harper , Relationship Manager of Tear Fund came to Mt Albert Baptist Church today, partnering with Daniel Walker.

 Daniel Walker , Speaker, Author of God in a Brothel.

www.tearfund.org.nz/

TEAR Fund NZ is a New Zealand based aid and development organisation, serving communites across Africa, Asia and South America.

 

A leading relief and development charity, working in partnership with Christian agencies and churches worldwide to tackle the causes and effects of poverty.

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ABC Wednesday: Letter T for Trafficking.

 Daniel Walker, author of God in a Brothel.

Today, Daniel Walker came to talk about his work at Mt Albert Baptist Church. He founded Nvader. Daniel, an ex police officer with 20 years law enforcement experience shared his work documenting cases of human trafficking on behalf of International human rights organisation.

Daniel is partnering with Tear Fund in his work. 

NVader: Freedom from sex trafficking. Rescue, prosecute ...

www.nvader.org/

I first heard him on Good Friday as I was finalising my book on Oppressed women. I have a chapter on human trafficking. I listened intently, my fiction is not so fiction and exaggeration after all.




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