On Saturday we went for a Waterfall Hike with our volunteers. It was such a nice day 🙂
The journey from Arusha is only about 7km and involves some steep ground and some clambering, but is quite manageable.
We had a lot of fun!
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Our new volunteers started working!
Yesterday our two Belgium volunteers Jana and Annabel started their work at Pippi House – a safe house for girls.
All in all they will stay for three months, but they are going to work in three different placements for one month each.
They love spending time with the kids there! 🙂
Our volunteer Glynis from the UK started teaching at Haradali School today – she is so excited about the kids and everyday life of the school.
New volunteers enjoying Swahili Classes
Yesterday our volunteers Jana, Annabel (both from Belgium) and Glynis (from UK) arrived in Arusha.
They are enjoying their first Swahili class right now 🙂
Thank you for coming!
Tanzania’s Children’s Rights
Today and tomorrow Tanzania’s record on children’s rights will be reviewed by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva, Switzerland. Tanzania is one of the 194 states that have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child and so is required to undergo regular examinations of its record before the Committee of 18 independent experts.
Among the possible issues to be discussed by the CRC and the Tanzanian Government delegation are: social stigmatization of pregnant girls, teenage mothers, children with disabilities, children with HIV/AIDS, children in street situations; strategy to stop gross violations of right to life, survival and development of children with albinism; increasing FGM; violence against children, particularly sexual and physical; forced and early marriage; birth registration coverage; the juvenile justice system; access to sex education; ensuring education is free and accessible to all children.
Thanks to UNICEF TANZANIA for this post!
Holidays are over!
Today we are back from the Christmas / New Year holidays!
Hope you all had a wonderful festive season and we will start together in a powerful year 2015. 🙂
In December something great had happened – Janina, a former Projects Overland volunteer from Switzerland, sent a material donation for the girls at Pippi House: clothes for the girls and their kids, nail polish, soap, cream and some jewelry. Thanks so much!
Yesterday’s Cooking Class
Photos of our last Cooking Class!
We prepared Chapati na Maharage (beans) and vegetarian Samosa 🙂
Thanks for attending, ladies!
Delicious food for our volunteers
Anette from Switzerland arrived and is curious about the life in Tanzania – here you can see her in the Moshi hostel, observing how the cook prepares delicious Tanzanian food!
Volunteer Anette
Today we welcome our new volunteer Anette from Switzerland!
She is going to work as a physiotherapist at Mawenzi Hospital in Moshi for six weeks and will stay in our volunteer hostel.
Mawenzi Hospital started in 1920 as a small military dispensary for German soldiers before it became a hospital in 1956. With about 300 beds, 152 nurses and more than 20 doctors, the hospital is very big and busy. The clinic’s services include eye, dental, ultrasonic, physiotherapy, laboratory, general surgery, psychiatry, maternity, mother and child care and family planning. The workers speak English which makes Mawenzi Hospital a very good practical training placement for volunteers with medical experience.
Going Bongo
Did you watch this movie?
If you want to experience volunteering in Tanzania yourself – how it really is – contact us and we will send you more information about our different projects!
Nyerere Day
On Tuesday it was Nyerere Day – a public holiday in Tanzania.
Celebrated is the commemoration of the Father of the Nation (“Baba wa Taifa” in Swahili) Julius Kambarage Nyerere, who was the first president of Tanzania.
Nyerere lived from 1922 to 1999 and was president from 1962 until his retirement in 1985.
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