Up to now we have had showers in the morning but they are thankfully diminishing.  Who thought that we needed to pack rain gear?  Rain or not, we had to pack our bags after breakfast to move across the street.  Mwangaza was inexpensive so we could splurge one night prior to going off to Safari.  We are ready.

After moving we took a trip to Umoja School where there is a small workshop called Enterprise where Days for Girls (DfG) menstrual kits are being made and distributed in the local community.  Darlene and Joyce are really excited to share knowledge about DfG and see how it is handled in TZ.  Paul brought supplies from a Minnesota group.  It may seem like an odd topic but these kits are critical to keep girls in school who would otherwise be home one week every month with a negative impact to them alone.  The Umoja school is a small secondary day school that reaches out to students who otherwise could not afford to attend school.   

Kate shares a wonderful video of elephants on her Facebook page.  Click on the link below.  
​www.facebook.com/kate.delozier/videos/1791946380832890/

  It is hard to not visit Tamiha and with each visit we are amazed.  There is always a new corp of orphans to sing to us.  There are always improvements going on.  This time there were new volunteers, full of energy and good deeds.  Alex (long blond hair) from England came and ran a go fund me page to fix the gate and extend the new classroom.  The gate got fixed, securing the children and the classroom was being built while we visited.

Thank you knitters for creating the wonderful hats that we passed out. 

We also found out that there is a primary school where the kids can attend that costs $400 a year.  If you wish to sponsor an orphan, please contact us at [email protected] and we'll give you the details.

This morning a group of us went with Brendan Simonson (who was armed)  and an armed ranger on a walking safari.  We returned with the same number of people who left.  We were happy.

From L to R, Earla, Christine, Kate, Jane, Baraka; Back Row Kristina, John, Mary; Way back is the Baobab tree next to tent 29, Jimmy Carter's tent.

I will post more later. It is as wonderful as always. Here is a place holder
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On Saturday we held a parent meeting at Freedom Lodge. It was a true Tanzanian meetings lasting 4 hours. Many of the parents came from far away so the meeting included goat banana stew and sodas. Only 10 of the 91 sponsored students were not represented by someone at the meeting. Many parents didn't know how to get to Freedom lodge so the kids walked them to the meeting and picked them up after. It was a very positive day.