Moshi July - September Volunteer Hours Girl Impact Computer 8% Skills 4% Early Childhood Development Nursery 16% Maasai Empowerment 19% Womens Support Group - Wakipa 4% LANGUAGE LESSON:
Kiswahili: ‘Amani’ means ‘Peace’
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Local Business Development 7% Langoni Old Folks Home School for 17% the Deaf 1%
WHAT’S NEW ON THE GROUND? We offered a position as Trainee Coordinator to a local volunteer who has been working with us since January – welcome to the team Neema! We started and completed phase 2 of renovations to the Old Folks Home we work with closely. This has made a huge impact on the residents who are now living in a much cleaner and safer environment. New weekend activities! Volunteers can now enjoy a unique home stay weekend away, or head off on a trip to a remote, mostly undiscovered jungle waterfall!
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18 Maasai tribe members completed a 6-week language course run by our volunteers in Moshi town. The project has been a huge success, with as many as 26 students arriving to class each morning! Thursdays are a particular favorite when staff and volunteers run a session discussing social issues faced by the Maasai in Moshi.
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Volunteers delivered a 4-week empowerment program at aTuma, local our secondary school during theand school holidays, volunteer house’s chef, Zakayo, a committed where students increased their knowledge ofchallenge gender- of Tour Intermediate English student, both took on the based violence by 19%! Guide training for a volunteer weekend trip to their Maasai home village of Kitenden, which included animal-spotting, goatWe’re veryhome-exploring proud of the Women’s GroupMaasai we support as roasting, and of course, jumping! they continue to expand their business, having partnered
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NAFGEM 2% Adult English Literacy & Tuiton 22%
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We launched our very first 6-week computer course and had a massive uptake in the community. Since July, 13 students have graduated with flying colors, including 2 of the nursery school teachers we work with!
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Trees, trees, trees! As part of our Health curriculum in schools, we have been sprouting saplings at the volunteer house and taking them to the School of the Deaf and nearby nursery school to teach about the importance of a diverse diet, and get students to plant saplings! We have now planted over 30!
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Having completed the security wall build for a local nursery we work with, volunteers got to paint educational murals on the walls. One included an incredible handwashing mural inspired by the Lion King (see photo on the right!).
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In September, we were inspired to raise funds for the Old Folks Home we work with. Our volunteers completed lots of challenges to raise money for phase 3 of the renovations we are doing. This included a huge clean-up of the Old Folks Home, where they moved broken bricks, tiles and piles of unwanted rubbish. Thank you!!
“Truly inspiring, life changing and challenging experience. I’m incredibly grateful to have worked with wonderful staff and volunteers, and to have met loving, enthusiastic and joyful students.”
Naomi Sequeria, Education Volunteer 2017
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After our successful English Language course at a local primary school, we were invited back by the Headteacher to deliver a life skills curriculum. Over 4 weeks, we worked with the older students to discuss positive and negative relationships in home and in school life. The students were thoroughly engaged with the topics, and prepared a song for volunteers in our final session. Watch this space for a potential new Girls Club!
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Our 6-week Girl Impact program at a local secondary school in July/August concentrated on decision making. At the end of the program, 84% of students felt they had the skills to make positive decisions about their life –an increase of 43% from the start.
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Our local partner, NAFGEM, heard about the successful Community Computer Course and requested the same curriculum. Many of the girls were using computer software for the first time, and we delivered sessions on how to type and use Microsoft Word to write letters. The girls were super happy to see printed versions of their first typed letters!
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A local business we support, 6 Rafiki Tours, and a women’s group we work with, WAKIPA, have partnered up to create a new walking tour of rural Moshi town. 6 Rafiki, the Wakipa ladies, and volunteers set out on a day of hiking to solidify the route which ends at the Wakipa home for a wonderful Swahili buffet. This is a unique tour within Moshi, and will hopefully will bring in many new tourists!
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Our work with a group of female tailors continues to grow, and after completing an 18-week Business Development Curriculum, the tailors announced that they want to form a tailors’ cooperative, which means the women will be able to generate more income for themselves. Well done to the women for being so committed, and to all of the volunteers for equipping these ladies with the confidence to launch a cooperative.
Okki Klijn, our Education volunteer from Australia, has recently written a blog about her time working on the Kiboroloni Tailors Program. Here’s a sneak preview: (check it out here!) “Business is an area in which the tailor ladies are constantly seeking to improve. As a volunteer, the thought of teaching business may be, to an extent, frightening - especially for those to which business is foreign territory. However, there is no need to stress - the basis of the topics is common knowledge; the simplest forms of business and finance (adding and subtracting), and if we have this basic knowledge, we need to pass it on - so others can pass it on too! The moment you enter the Tailors complex, and are greeted by numerous affectionate hugs and smiley 'Karibuuuu!'s (welcome), all worries disappear...�
July 10th saw the 4-year anniversary of African Impact Moshi. To celebrate, we had our traditional celebration at the Old Folks Home with cake, sodas and of course lots of dancing! Throughout the whole week, we celebrated with all of our projects, including a very glittery workshop with the Nursery children, and a Community Football Event with volunteers, staff and all of our Community and Maasai students. Luckily, we had some brilliant volunteers to represent African Impact on the pitch!
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