Monday March 13, 2023 Today we drove from Musoma to Nyayero to visit Irving Matute who is teaching at Nyayero Secondary School. We arrived in time to see the remaining 20 minutes of his English teaching lesson. Wow, he is doing great – commanding the attention, adoration, and respect…
Sunday March 12 Our silence on the blog has been noticeable perhaps! We have let the students settle into their service placements and now we are about to launch our service tour to visit each of them. We will leave Monday morning March 13 and visit Nyayero (Irving), Shirati (Annalise,…
Monday Feb. 20 – Train from Dar to Arusha This will be a lifelong memory…. taking the train from Dar to Arusha took about 20 hours. The best part is that it included a night in bed being rocked to sleep in the sleeper cars. However, we were not…
Sunday Feb. 19, 2023 This week marks our last week in Dar es Salaam before we head through the Serengeti toward our service locations. On Monday Feb. 20th we will leave on the night train from Dar to go to Arusha where we will spend one day exploring sustainable…
Thursday February 16, 2023 Our focus this week has been to continue to explore the challenges in mapping ecological communities on the complexity of social communities. As we learned last week studying mangrove and fisheries management, it takes creative resolve to institute the right policies, social practices, and cultural values…
Saturday Feb 11, 2023 Thursday and Friday were spectacular. We received an introductory lecture by Aquafarms Organization AFO on Thursday afternoon to learn of their work in marine biology conservation. We were impressed for multiple reasons. Firstly, this NGO was started by 13 University of Dar es Salaam undergraduate…
Wed. February 8th, 2023 Sunday included attendance at church in the morning followed by a quick lunch so we could get to the national stadium for an international friendly between Simba – one of the premier TZ professional club teams – against Sudan’s Al Hilal. It was a relaxing…
Saturday Feb. 4, 2023 This week we have continued to explore various components of life in Dar. Thursday afternoon we met with Dr. Shreya Shah from Regency Medical Center who gave a presentation linking healthcare challenges with environmental attributes. For example, Dr. Shah indicated that 70% of medical expenses…
Wednesday Feb 1, 2023 The students just left our apartment in Upanga to head home after a good discussion of the week’s events. We have been exploring the colonial history of Tanzania and the independence movement championed by Tanzania’s first president Mwalimu Julius Nyerere. This week we are examining…
Sunday Jan. 29, 2023 We spent this weekend in Bagamoyo, a town about a 90 minute drive north of Dar es Salaam also directly on the Indian Ocean. The town is much smaller than Dar, but was the setting of some major historical events in Tanzania’s history. On Friday…
