Botswana - A church in Botswana will receive renovation to its original state, thanks in part to a $44,000 from the American Embassy in Gaborone. Located in Old Palapye - now called Malaka - the church was built in the 1890's. The area has a rich and ancient history with rock paintings, stone cairns, circular foundations, verandas, stonewalls, red ochre pottery, iron implements of archeological importance and is near the sacred Moremi Hills, where the Tswapong gods are believed to live.
In 1889, Old Palapye was one of the largest towns in southern Africa, home to a population of around 30,000 people but drought and illness caused abandonment of the area in the early 1900's. When work is completed, it is planned the church will be managed as a heritage site and museum under a community trust.
Area villagers will also be allowed to use the old London Missionary Society location as a place of worship.
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