Tanzania Book

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Alison Robinson

Since 1998 I have been travelling and somtimes leading teams of people to provide practical aid and support to some of the world’s poorest communities. It has been a joy to visit schools, community projects, medical centres, churches and children’s homes around the world.

I have learned much and made many good friends. The great thing about these trips is that they take you to places far from the usual tourist trail, where you become part of the community for a few weeks and allows you to meet people that you wouldn’t otherwise meet.

Of course my trusty Sony Alpha camera comes with me and I can’t resist making photographs of the people places and animals that I see.

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This book contains photographs taken during my 2015 visit to Arusha, in Tanzania where the my team worked with a local charitable organisation called Projects Overland. The team supported teachers and students at a primary school, painted a kindergarten in a Maasai church, helped teenagers with their homework at a home for girls, visited a baby orphanage and helped at a medical outreach in another Maasai village. Of course it isn’t just work, we did have an opportunity to visit the famous Tarangire Safari Park where, apart from the wildebeest, zebras, antelope, giraffes and much more, they have more elephants per square mile that anywhere else in the world. http://www.ajrtravels.uk/ http://www.projectsoverland.org/

Morning and afternoon assembly with the headteacher at Kijenge Primary School, Arusha | 2

3 | The plastic bottles that the children carry are filled with water and sprinkled across the playground, paths and vegetable patches to water the crops and keep the dust down

The children sing the National Anthem while a team of boys beat time on the drums | 4

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Teacher Joyce | 6

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Learning fractions

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A church in a Maasai village that doubles as a kindergarten during the week | 12

13 | Elders of the Maasai village relaxing after a busy day celebrating a wedding

Children outside a Maasai kitchen hut |14

Moran are teenage Maasai that have recently been circumcised (without anaesthetic) and healed and are just beginning the next stage of their lives as men. For a few weeks they wear black, adorn themselves with ostrich feathers and paint their faces with paint made from black tulip bulbs.

These moran were ‘showing off’ along the roadside.

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Maasai women are respobsible for raising the children and looking after the home while men go off for days at a time trying to find grazing land for the cattle and sheep | 18

The girls at the Pippi House in Arusha have all had really tough lives. They have all been found living on the streets, and brought to a place where they can be safe, raise their baby (they have often been raped or turned to prostitution to survive) and return to school. After a few years they are helped to find work, a place to live and to be independent.

They are amazingly bright, beautiful and fun ladies, some as young as 13 or 14 years, and all very keen to have their photograph taken.

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A walk through the food market and the tourist market is always interesting. Unless you buy something or give a little money no one wants to have their photograph taken so the only way to make pictures is to shoot with the camera at waist height using the display screen to roughly frame the shot.

Hope makes all of these beaded items herself | 24

Tarangire Park is the sixth largest safari park in Tanzania.

It has herds of upto 300 elephants as well and has the greatest concentration of wildlife outside of the Serengeti.

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