A Kuria man was once on a safari from Remagwe down to
Bunchari in northwestern Tanzania and was attacked by local thieves. They beat
and robbed him, leaving him half dead. Now the chairperson of the local village
council happened to be traveling down the same road. But when he saw the injured
man he passed by on the other side. In the same way the local church catechist
came to the place, saw him and passed by on the other side. But a Maasai
traveler who came by on his bicycle was moved with compassion when he saw the
injured man. He went up to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring local herbal
medicine on them. Then he lifted him onto his bicycle, took him to a nearby
private bedded dispensary and looked after him. The next day he took out 30,000
Tanzanian shillings (the equivalent of a month’s minimum wage in Tanzania’s
economy), handed the money to the medical assistant and said: “Look after him,
and on my way back I will pay the extra costs that you have."