East Africa Internship: Teaching/Community Service 2012

Submitted by Emily Trafton… After our eight hour ride into Uganda, the group walked about ten minutes to visit and work with an organization called Soft Power Education (SPE). Funded by the UK to give under privileged children a base education for primary schools and the US to give the public a very inexpensive health […]

We arrived in Tanzania via airplane and immediately after touching down we met our in country contact named Mohammed.  He arrived with a bus and took the entire group with all of our luggage to the hotel where we stayed for the next two days.  We took these two days to prepare ourselves for the

Posted by Admin after a long debrief with Chau… The group has spent the last two weeks in Uganda. It was a very busy time with lots going on, lots of travel, and times when people were completely out of cell range (hence the blackout period). Here’s what the group was up to. Well over

Written by Aaron DePetris… After deciding to end work on the school as well as an intense moraldilemma for the group, we got back on track this past week. Mondaystarted with a community meeting where numerous ideas for projectswere formed. These included an after-school camp for kids, building newsoccer (football) goals, painting a world map

Sept 15, 2012Today we arrived in Emurumba to children singing and dancing. The only way I can describe this moment is surreal.–Aaron Sept 16, 2012Today we went to church with our host families and ate delicious Ugali for dinner.–Aaron Sept 17, 2012Today was our first day on the construction site; we moved bricks from one