LawnMower Man

The Bakhita Complex has a few locals working as groundskeepers.  Their job is to watch the front gate, trim bushes, and mow the lawn.  The standard technique for mowing grass in Malawi is to wait for it to be about a foot high and then chop it down with a weed wacker swipe by swipe.  It usually takes the workers several days just to cut small patches of grass around the buildings.  Before we arrived, a gas powered lawnmower arrived in a container.  Last week, we fired it up for the first time and showed one of the workers how to use it and he was totally amazed.  It was probably the coolest thing he has seen in his entire life.  What would normally take him five hours, he could now finish in five minutes.  He's been using almost non-stop for the past week.