Visiting Schools, Meeting Friends

We met 10 new Mlang’a students who were identified as needing help by their school administrators and ABCD Tanzania to join the ABCD family. Headmaster Mr. Makaka was very happy to receive the 2 LCD projectors that we brought from home for his school.

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Tanzania 2024! A Great and Fruitful Trip!

Volunteer Joe Crone and I are back from a wonderfully productive trip to visit our friends, the students, and our projects in Marangu West, Tanzania. A couple of hiccups such as a 3 day delay in getting our luggage and a minor flood in my room, didn’t hold us back. Volunteer Joe did an amazing […]

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Bulletin #3 from Africa: Our Amazing Volunteer Teachers!

Our two wonderful volunteers, Jackie and Susan were certainly ‘dropped into the deep end’ with their first teaching post here in Tanzania facing classes of over 60 students! They are teaching for their first week at Ngaruma Vocational Training Centre which is about a 20 minute drive from our residence. There are about 80 students […]

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Bulletin #2 from Africa: Busy First Days!

Even though we are all slowly recovering from jet lag and interrupted sleep patterns we have had a busy few days since leaving Moshi town and settling into our residence at the Sekao Kili Lodge in the ward of Marangu West. First order of business was to familiarize ourselves with the workings of the kitchen […]

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