Note collapsed bell tower

Sports Day

on the hockey field of Arusha School

Existing chapel built by Swedish missionary Herbert Uhlin

Central Meru School children marching band with Union Jack

My father (Anton Nelson) organised Meru Co-operative Union with 4000 Meru farmers, here seen with new purchase of 5-ton lorry to haul Coffee to warehouse. Seen at the Poli Baraza, local gov't headquarters. MCU in turn hired my father as their 'technical advisor'

Meru Co-operative Union 5 ton lorry doubling as a bus when not hauling coffee.

Mount Meru, as seen from the tarmac of the Arusha to Moshi road.

the "Mother Church" in central Meru.

Caroline Nelson talking with Joeli Maeda, Middle School headmaster.

Caroline Nelson with Lorraine with church sewing ladies.

When the Nelson family first came to Meu, Horace Mason helped connect my mother with social development work. Mason was the government social development officer.

Anton Nelson pitches camp halfway up the Heim

My father (Anton Nelson, right) as president of the Kilimanjaro Mountain Club, with John Cooke (left) and Dave Goodall, of Kenya, with porters, on historic traverse of Kilimanjaro and first ascent of the Heim Glacier - note the ice axe.

with John Cooke and Dave Goodall (photo by Anton Nelson).

Coming over the incredibly steep curve of the glacier at 18,000 feet.

John Cooke and David Goodall. Photo by Anton Nelson

(in jogging attire) surveying Central Meru (Lake Duluti in distance) from forest boundary at 6,000 feet where my father introduced Pyrethrum (daisies in forefround) as a cash crop for the Meru Co-operative Union

At Akeri Lutheran Church as it appeared in 1960.

Martyred by WaMeru ~ Karl Segebrock and Ewald Ovir 1896

at 9,000 feet on edge of Weru Weru river gorge. This is the Umbwe Route first pioneered by Anton Nelson in 1959.

In 1960 Anton Nelson, as president of the Kilimanjaro Mountain Club, took this photo from Tim Bally's plane at 17,000 feet of the Heim Glacier, first ascended in 1957 by Nelson and two British civil servants from Kenya. By 2000 half the ice had melted, by 2040 it will be all gone.

At Gladys Rydon's residence, with Lorraine Nelson

over the Tengeru River, below Makumira