| 3rd May 2012 Mama Tunza & Little Monkey - by MoiMoii | by MoiMoii for everyone |
It doesn't happen too often, but once in a while, amidst the bulk of rubbish TV programmes, vulgar 'entertainment' and cheap thrills, there are still some true professionals who defend their profession as honest servers to the public, despite the existential economic chaos they wallow in. I just saw a report in Spanish TVE-1, in the programme 'Informe semanal' (Information Weekly) by the prestigious reporter Vicente Romero, in Kenya, in the suburbs of Nairobi. He found and reported a great story, wonderful and heart warming.
He came across an African lady, known by all as 'Mama Tunza', with her child 'Little Monkey'. She is poor, illiterate, has nothing to call her own except her many children, abandoned or orphans whom she had discovered reaching deep into rubbish bins searching for scrapes of food, or wandering in streets hungry and lost.Over some years, she had collected a number of them, giving them shelter, food, care and love, thanks to some modest donation by kind hearted people, touched by her extraordinary humanity. Vicente Romero stopped by to interview her.
She told the story about one of her children whom everyone lovingly calls 'Little Monkey'. That one day she was passing through the woods and noticed a big baboon, carrying a strange bulk hanging on her back. She soon realized the baby was not a primate but a human infant.
To rescue the little creature she would need to employ a strategy: she went off quickly to buy a couple of large bunches of bananas, then she lay them down at the foot of a tree and hid herself nearby. The female baboon came close to inspect, took no time at all to drop the baby and went off with the lot of them.
She told the story about one of her children whom everyone lovingly calls 'Little Monkey'. That one day she was passing through the woods and noticed a big baboon, carrying a strange bulk hanging on her back. She soon realized the baby was not a primate but a human infant.
To rescue the little creature she would need to employ a strategy: she went off quickly to buy a couple of large bunches of bananas, then she lay them down at the foot of a tree and hid herself nearby. The female baboon came close to inspect, took no time at all to drop the baby and went off with the lot of them.
Today Little Monkey is learning to read and write, and lives as a normal human child. This is not one of the tales of Tarzan, but a true life story, and at the present time, that reaches us and touches our hearts, thanks to a conscientious reporter with keen sight and through a public TV channel.
I remember vaguely having heard about that African lady before on another TV programme, La 2 sometime before, alerted of her existence by 'Miguel Romero, in fact son of Vicente, but with no personal detail and not yet with the addition of Little Monkey at the time. Now the father's report has reshaped the story in all it's extraordinary dimension and intensity.
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