I visited a very remote school this morning called Kitowo/Napaku Primary School to sign an agreement to pay school fees for four children: Amedeusi, Oskar, Isaac and Teresia. This is a very, very poor school. It is one where ABCD could focus some funds and time in the future. The teachers were very welcoming and gathered […]
We really enjoyed hiking through the trails to the children’s homes and being warmly welcomed with a loud Karibuni! (welcome). After much hand-shaking and laughter, we sit down to talk to the family about the child’s life in the past year: the dream, health, uniform and other needs, progress in school, favourite subjects. We take […]
January 23 — After our exercises and packing up we were gathered at the entrance to our hotel ready for the hike to Kilema when Lynn accidentally knocked over a 9 foot wooden giraffe carving which was standing next to the doorway! It broke into several pieces as the wood was so dry and we […]
After we were sure everybody was home from church we set out to make some home visits. We visited Adeline (from her school reports mailed to us we learned that she is doing very, very well at school and we will be giving her and others an award at Art Day on the 30th!) While […]
We left Moshi in the landrover loaded up with the children’s supplies and our luggage and were driven 1.5 hours to our hotel, up in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Sekao Kilimanjaro Lodge. Joseph has arranged for our rooms and meals at this comfortable and conveniently located hotel near the homes and schools of […]