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Gearing Up For Tanzania: November 2015

Since 2008 Kilema Support fund has supported the educational aspirations of 65 children from the Kilimanjaro Region. Since then many of these children are no longer children! They are young adults who have developed confidence, an broader skill set, a sense of purpose and power and finally hope for the future. Educational aspirations and success are top priority in this country where 85% of the working poor live below $2 per day (UN 2014). Getting children through school can bankrupt impoverished families.

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Gearing Up For Tanzania: November 2015

Since 2008 Kilema Support fund has supported the educational aspirations of 65 children from the Kilimanjaro Region. Since then many of these children are no longer children! They are young adults who have developed confidence, an broader skill set, a sense of purpose and power and finally hope for the future. Educational aspirations and success are top priority in this country where 85% of the working poor live below $2 per day (UN 2014). Getting children through school can bankrupt impoverished families.

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Partnerships and Deo Kundi

    Sometimes when groups work together, each contributing various elements towards a final goal, the chances of achieving the goal improve and of course all invested share in the rewards. Such was the case with Deo Kundi and his prosthetic leg.  It is worth recounting all the partners in...

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School Can Be Thrilling

         As Dr. Anna Nyaki says,”The village tells you everything you need to know about how people really live.”  It was Anna Nyaki  who referred Maximilian (above) for help with schooling costs given his academic potential and his mother’s illness.   It was ideal for us to...

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Beached

        We are at the coast after a long (8 hour!) but fascinating drive yesterday. We had everything from beautiful new road to incredibly rough, unfinished and very bumpy long sections, all in blazing sun and heat. True desert with red, red earth. The colours are startling....

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Hymns for Health

                Voices rise up in harmony as the Sisters and hospital staff make their way down towards morning hymns, the official start of the day at the Kilema Hospital. We were wishing we could incorporate the spirit of this “team huddle” at the...

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Internet …to be or not to be?

    Joke: Text to student in Arusha……….”Do you have Wifi there at your school?” Text reply: “No mama, I am single.”   Every year people in Canada ask me why I am not on Facebook with the KSF Tuition Project and every year when I arrive here I remember...

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“Who’s Got the Leg?” Deo !

                                                      A Prosthetic Leg for Deo Kundi   At Central Middle School, we (Solana, Lockie and Lauren) held a fundraiser to help buy Deo Kundi a prosthetic leg. He has been without a leg for 3 years. To raise the money, the three of us decided to hold a...

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