First Things Foundation

May 1st was “Worker’s Day” in Mozambique! Our Field Workers feasted on goat, beans, rice, and cake as they celebrated at Deep Roots Farm. 🇲🇿

Photos by Field Workers and Sarah Mather

Join me in wishing a warm welcome to our new Field Worker, Tuba Kök!! She joins Sebastian, Ozzy, and Liam in Guatemala, and we can’t wait to see what she gets into. 🇬🇹

“Tuba was born and raised in Turkey and has mostly lived and traveled overseas. From 2014 to 2017, she worked as a homeroom teacher and volunteered with children from war refugee families in southeastern Turkey before leaving the profession to begin a very long journey. During this journey, mainly in Asia, she cycled from Thailand to Japan. Over the years, she has also lived in Spain, Thailand, Ecuador, and Tajikistan, supporting herself mainly by teaching English. Much of her life on the road has been slow and simple. She often camped outdoors or spent nights in temples, mosques, and churches along the way. Some days and nights passed in deep silence, far from towns or people, where she simply kept moving forward and left herself to the road. Beyond cycling, she has completed solo long-distance hikes in the Himalayas of Nepal, on Sri Lanka’s Pekoe Trail, and on the Lycian Way in Turkey. Teaching remained her main work, though over the years she also supported herself through outdoor guidance and translation. Having spent much of her adult life traveling slowly, often by bicycle, and living in developing regions, she developed a strong interest in working closely with communities and contributing to projects that create tangible change. By the age of 35, when her path crossed with the FTF, she knew she had found people made of the same fabric.”

🇲🇿 Mozambique is a land of colors. Check out these photos from Sarah Mather! Our Field Workers see more beautiful things in 2 years than most people see in a lifetime:

Clear nights with beautiful sunsets after rainy days. Remnants of Portuguese colonial rule. Mud, floods, and the journey of growing sesame. Trips to Malawi and South Africa for visa work. Seasonal snacks: squash, sugar apple, and papaya. A homemade birthday pumpkin curry and alphabet soup art for co-Field Worker and beatboxer extraordinaire, Sam Harvey.

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