Our last day in the northern part of Zanzibar. We enjoyed visiting this part of Tanzania, and there is always entertainment on the beach to watch. Not much else was done today, except to pack up to leave tomorrow.

Eid Mubarak celebration and holiday started today. Everyone is in a joyous mood, including children singing and going from house to house collecting money to celebrate this evening. We have left Stone Town and headed north to a beach resort for the next two days -...

Mostly holidaying now for a few days in Zanzibar. Today we went to a spice plantation and enjoyed the tour and bought some spices. Our hotel is right in Stone Town, a boutique hotel called Maru Maru. A very nice place with great food and friendly staff. We had two...

The day started with the visit to the special needs school that was built in 2023 to review @how things were going and to present the children with some learning tools and also see what else we could do, then we were pleasantly surprised to visit another school that...

Another great day of celebrations began as we opened another set of three classrooms and ten toilets. It's in a remote part of mountain life. A very generous community that shares with you food and supports the school with a lot of free labour, Then we stopped at one...

our days start with our project manager, tour guide, friend, and ever patient and efficient Rama. We are travelling to one of my favourite areas of Tanzania: the Lushoto Mountains. We visited three schools: one that we completed last year, one that will be under...

Another great day visiting schools, clinics and meeting with children, teachers, and parents. Our main goal today was to visit schools that we have completed, schools that need help, and schools under construction. We also spent quite a bit of time hashing out a...

More than a full day today. We began with celebrations at a school where we added four new classrooms. The community expressed their gratitude for three hours in a ceremony. At a another School we followed up on the water and a classroom project for 35 special needs...

Today we began our long trip towards our project sites to Mombo. We met up with our project manager in Arusha, and together we travelled for nearly eight hours and are very close to our destination to begin work tomorrow.

A great game drive day. Down inside the crater, we saw a lot of animals, elephants and baby lions, and had a picnic next to a hippo pool. We returned for a nice afternoon at the lodge and were treated to some Maasai entertainment. This will end the first part of our...