United States-based medical doctor Steve Meyer recounts the emotional story of the pupils who survived a horror road crash in 2017 that claimed the lives of 29 of their colleagues, two teachers and a driver.
Dar es Salaam. Tanzanians will have the opportunity to read the inside story of the miraculous escape from the jaws of death of the Lucky Vincent school trio when a newly published book goes online.
United States-based medical doctor Steve Meyer recounts the emotional story of the pupils who survived a horror road crash in 2017 that claimed the lives of 29 of their colleagues, two teachers and a driver.
The accident, one of the worst school tragedies in Tanzania, occurred on May 6th when the school van ferrying the pupils to a contest in a nearby school hurtled down a steep road before landing in a ditch.
The book promises to give a blow-to-blow account of the happenings from the time of the crash in Arusha region to the hospital hallways in the US as the dramatic recovery of the survivors unfolded.
The author of the Mercy Medical Centre in Iowa teamed up with a host of other specialist doctors to treat Doreen Elibariki, Wilson Tarimo and Saidiely Ismail who overcame all odds as lone survivors of the crash in Karatu district.
The book—titled ‘Answer The Call’ went online on the Amazon website from yesterday and is an emotional roller-coaster for the Mercy centre team and their partners in Tanzanian –Siouxland Tanzania Education Medical Ministry (STEMM), who partnered in the rescue and airlift of the victims in the rush to save their lives.
STEMM missionaries incidentally came across the crash scene shortly after the accident occurred and immediately got down to work in what would become a tale of both hope, resilience and the love for humanity.
The hardcover of the book is already available in the US market since the last week of April when it was launched in Dallas which is known to have the largest Tanzanian community in the US.
“It is page after page of miracles,’’ says Mayer, recounting how one of the kids had risen “from the dead” to hiking Africa’s highest peak – Kilimanjaro recently.
The three pupils last year sat for their National Standard Seven examinations and passed to join secondary school.
