Category: Travels with Floyd and Kathy

  • Making an Entrepreneur of a Barabaig Warrior, Chapter 5

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         Kathy was startled to find a Barabaig warrior in full dress standing in her door way. She was busy packing bags for their return to America while Floyd was wrapping up the last bit of work on the hospital in Nkungi village.      “Late one afternoon I heard a ‘hody’ (hello) at…

  • Teaching Tanzania Carpenters: Sawhorses and Mortar Boxes -Chapter 4

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         What would you do if the UPS delivered a CAT scan machine to your home? Unless you’re a medical professional, it would be unfamiliar technology and you wouldn’t have a clue what to do with it. You would need someone to show you how it worked and train you.  When Floyd began construction on…

  • Who Stole Floyd’s Bicycle?

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    Who stole Floyd’s bicycle? Chapter 3 Who stole Floyd’s bicycle? You won’t believe the answer, but this is a true story. While working on the AIDs hospice in Nkungi village, Floyd’s major form of transportation was a bicycle with his plastic bucket of tools strapped to the back. Nkungi is not large so navigating the…

  • Trading Grain for Hand-Woven Baskets

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    Trading Grain for Baskets: Disruptive Innovation in the World of Charity       In the early morning sun of the rural African village suffering from a three-year drought, women with starving families desperately sought food. An event transpired that would forever transform the village, and, in time, would impact millions of hungry people around…

  • Destination: Tanzania

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    Do you draw inspiration from a good story about down-to-earth people who make the world a better place? Then you’ll enjoy meeting our founders, Floyd Hammer and Kathy Hamilton. They are a charming, unassuming couple from rural Iowa who, in their retirement, created such positive impact that two U.S. Presidents – Obama and George H.W.…