Africa - Egypt

Aug. 08, 1964 - An American experiment in Tanganyika. Living with the Natives. About a month ago a party of Americans - three boys and six girls left the United States as the first American group of the Experiment in International Living to Tanganyika. It is also the first in East Africa. They visited a number of places of interest before going to their work project a bush farming site about forty miles from DaresSalaam. Here sixty seven families from various parts of the country have assembled to try cooperative work aided by the Government. The Experimenters were warmly welcomed by the families and were given two mud huts for accommodation - and are now working with the families - carrying out all the same tasks as the natives - planting - digging - milking - picking cotton etc. They have got used to having rats running aroung their huts at night. They eat the same type of food as the natives - Ugali - a solid block of corn meal boiled in water - beans and rice.They return to Dares Salam in a week - and to the United States in September. Keystone photo shows two of the American Experimenters - have a meal with their native family - on the farm site - They are Darlene Mullett (from Barberton, Ohio) at right - and Alexine Atherton the group leader (from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Accommodation Aided Aroung Assembled Atherton Beans Boiled Cooperative Corn Dares Daressalaam Darlene Digging Experimenters Forty Huts Milking Picking Planting Rats Salam Sixty Solid Tanganyika Tasks Warmly Welcomed

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