Tanzania Donation

Thankyou for your donation of suits that I was able to take to Tanzania.

My husband and I worked at the School of St Jude, Usa River Campus, twenty minutes from Kilimanjaro International airport in 2009/2010 and we planned to return in September this year. My goal is to take the Certificate 3 course in Library/Information services from the Tasmanian Polytechnic back to further the education of teachers and others who work and run school libraries.

A fellow volunteer from Australia who had worked with us at St Judes also planned further education and she was setting up a two week course for Amahs, baby minders and owners of early learning centre and crèches. One of the field trips planned as part of the course was for her students to go in groups for hands-on experience at the Cradle of Love, http://cradleoflove.com/ an Orphanage at Usa River established and run by, Davona Church, from the United States of America. We visited the orphanage and were greeted by about twenty-five children in the toddlers’ area. There were five carers, three Tanzanian women and two young women from Germany. The large airy room had play equipment and a shelf of books which the children were keen to access and have stories read to them. At one end was the dining area with the kitchen close by.

Ten suits were donated to the Cradle of love. The other ten were given to Plaster House, http://www.plasterhouse.org an initiative of a young woman from Australia. Children are sent here after operations in the hospital, that require clean careful after care which would be impossible to sustain in the young patients’ villages.