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  • Weekly religious works at the local church. In Angola?s Namibe desert, at Giraul, in the Namibe province, Tchikuteny, from the Mucubal tribe, is the leader of a big family, maybe the biggest family in the world.<br />
He is the chief leader, the manager and responsible for the entire village. <br />
In his village, Tchikuteny lives nowadays with most of his big family, his 33 wives, that were once 43, but 10 left the village, and most of their descendants.<br />
Tchikuteny maintains the registry of all the new-borns, totalizing 154 sons, and his grandsons, that are around 60. Nowadays, 4 new babies are on the way, and 3 great grand children were born recently.<br />
Huge harmony, love and respect transpire in the village atmosphere. The sense of a community is the pillar of their sustainability and sustenance and their autonomy depends prominently on cattle and agriculture that is made by the villagers. Nevertheless, Tchikuteny village is in close connection with their surrounding communities. Children attend Giraul School and there is proximity and relations with the extended family that lives in the surroundings.<br />
Being the spiritual leader of the community, Tchikuteny is also responsible for the weekly religious works that happens in the village church. <br />
This big family opened his doors to share with us their daily lives.
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  • Weekly religious works at the local church. In Angola?s Namibe desert, at Giraul, in the Namibe province, Tchikuteny, from the Mucubal tribe, is the leader of a big family, maybe the biggest family in the world.<br />
He is the chief leader, the manager and responsible for the entire village. <br />
In his village, Tchikuteny lives nowadays with most of his big family, his 33 wives, that were once 43, but 10 left the village, and most of their descendants.<br />
Tchikuteny maintains the registry of all the new-borns, totalizing 154 sons, and his grandsons, that are around 60. Nowadays, 4 new babies are on the way, and 3 great grand children were born recently.<br />
Huge harmony, love and respect transpire in the village atmosphere. The sense of a community is the pillar of their sustainability and sustenance and their autonomy depends prominently on cattle and agriculture that is made by the villagers. Nevertheless, Tchikuteny village is in close connection with their surrounding communities. Children attend Giraul School and there is proximity and relations with the extended family that lives in the surroundings.<br />
Being the spiritual leader of the community, Tchikuteny is also responsible for the weekly religious works that happens in the village church. <br />
This big family opened his doors to share with us their daily lives.
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  • Weekly religious works at the local church. In Angola?s Namibe desert, at Giraul, in the Namibe province, Tchikuteny, from the Mucubal tribe, is the leader of a big family, maybe the biggest family in the world.<br />
He is the chief leader, the manager and responsible for the entire village. <br />
In his village, Tchikuteny lives nowadays with most of his big family, his 33 wives, that were once 43, but 10 left the village, and most of their descendants.<br />
Tchikuteny maintains the registry of all the new-borns, totalizing 154 sons, and his grandsons, that are around 60. Nowadays, 4 new babies are on the way, and 3 great grand children were born recently.<br />
Huge harmony, love and respect transpire in the village atmosphere. The sense of a community is the pillar of their sustainability and sustenance and their autonomy depends prominently on cattle and agriculture that is made by the villagers. Nevertheless, Tchikuteny village is in close connection with their surrounding communities. Children attend Giraul School and there is proximity and relations with the extended family that lives in the surroundings.<br />
Being the spiritual leader of the community, Tchikuteny is also responsible for the weekly religious works that happens in the village church. <br />
This big family opened his doors to share with us their daily lives.
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  • Most of the refugees present in the only refugee camp in Mozambique didn't want to stay in the country but they would like to find an african coountry where they right are better respected. In Maratane Refugee camp there are several nationality, there are refugees from Congo, Ruwanda, Uganda, Darfur, Sudan and in the last six months arrived also a large number of refugee from Somalia and Ethiopia. A catholic rwandas and priest show his bible. He claims to have been treated of  repatriation by the Nampula bishop, once he discovered the refugee was giving church service in the camp.
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  • Amor de Deus Recovery Center, Del Castilho, Rio de Janeiro. A evangelism team member reads a bible. The majority of evangelism team is composed by crack dependents in advanced recovering stage.
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