Category: Amahoro Secondary

Last week, Lucas passed through Kiganza village en route to Mgaraganza village to collect more pictures of the school.  On his way, he picked up some of the Project Wezesha students who were making the long journey home from school in Mwandiga.  For those that live in Kiganza village, such as Hindu, Edina, Ismael and Diana, that trek is about an hour long on foot.  For those that live in Mgaraganza, there is another 30 minutes through the forest to get home – that impacts Zainabu, Silvasia and Khadija.

On this sunny day, Lucas invited all of them to go the extra distance through Mgaraganza village to the school building site to see the progress. They wandered through the lush forest (rainy season just passed) and up to the school where they were so excited to see the progress. Along the way, they also picked up Matamshi and Judith, two of our students who go to secondary school in Kagongo village. In this picture, they are crossing the river that divides Kiganza village and Mgaraganza village.

Crossing the River that borders Kiganza and Mgaraganza Villages

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I left Tanzania exactly one month ago! In that time, so much has happened on the school front. When I returned to Salt Lake City, I sent Lucas another large sum of money from the Project Wezesha account. I couldn’t leave the money in our shared Tanzanian account because I was pulling it out daily from the ATM – limits enforced. Now, I am happy to be able to wire large sums as they come into Project Wezesha, for the building progress to continue.

Lucas reported through email and with photographs on progress since I left. The foundation for the four classrooms and the headmaster’s office is complete! Two truckloads containing 13,000 bricks have been delivered to the building site and the walls are going up as I type! I am so excited to see those images and hope that we will see a few completed rooms by the year’s end. Here are some pictures of the work that took place after I left one month ago.

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Well – as I suppose you may have surmised, progress was a little slower than I was hoping it would be, but not by much. In fact, in the 3 weeks that I was there, I never imagined that as much would be done.

First, Isaya (the builder) had architectural plans drawn up in about one day. With the plans we also got the building permit. Having that out of the way, we met with the land office and the ministry of education and confirmed with the village government that the land was ready for building and it had been approved by the villagers.

Next on the agenda was the big materials shopping day. I gladly handed over almost 3 million shillings so that Isaya could take care of this on his own. He bought aluminum, wood, tools, 100 bags each of lyme and cement, nails and other odds and ends for the initial phase – four classrooms and two offices. The transport of this material alone – in car part of the way and on the backs of the men up the final stretch of steep rocky path – was quite a feat!

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