Sister Else Schärf with the Sunday school children, Isoko, Tanzania, 1929

"Schwester Schärf mit ihrer Sonntagsschule. Dr. med. O. Fischer" ("Sister Schärf with her Sunday school. Dr. O. Fischer"). In the background on the left a two-storied and tile-roofed house. In the foreground a group of 27 African children under a large tree: three girls are standing, the others are seated. On the left Else Schärf, standing beside the singing group and playing a guitar. Else Schärf (born 1892, year of death unknown) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. She was a deaconess and received training not only as a nurse but also in the care of mothers and lepers. She served from 1928 for many years at the leprosy hospital in Isoko.