We are pleased to report that the students all safely returned to Musoma today! As the students arrived from their various locations, they were shuttled from the bus stand to the Mennonite Center. With each new group’s arrival, cheers of excitement went up and hugs were abundant! Small groups shared…
Ariel Ropp and Kaeli Evans are living in the small village of Nyabange, which is about a 15-minute drive from the town of Musoma. This has also been our home, so we’ve crossed paths with Ariel and Kaeli on the weekends when we were not traveling to visit other students.
Alison lives in Mwanza, the second largest city in Tanzania, which is also located on the shores of Lake Victoria about 3 hours south of Musoma. We left Musoma on Wednesday afternoon and arrived in Mwanza around 4:30 p.m. in time to meet Alison at her workplace. The drive is…
Abby Hertzler and Mark Meier are both living and working in the town of Musoma, which is nestled above Lake Victoria. They are living about 20 minutes from our home in Nyabange, so we have seen them a number of times during the 5 weeks. However, on Monday we arranged…
Shirati is a town of historical significance for the Mennonite Church in Tanzania. It is one of the oldest centers of missionary presence in Tanzania, with the arrival of Mennonites in the early 1930’s. Today it continues to be a thriving Mennonite community with the Shirati hospital and SHED (Shirati…
Mogabiri is home to the Mogabiri Farm Extension Centre, an organization run by the Anglican Church, devoted to improving the farming practices of local farmers and increasing their livelihoods through farming. Alain and Matt have been working here and we spent two nights at Mogabiri, staying in…
I hope the delay in posting has not been too long! We did not have internet on our trip through Nyarero, Mogabili, and Shirati. Goshen College also experienced some server problems on Sunday. However, now we are back online! Last week, after getting our car fully fixed in Musoma, we…
We arrived in Kemgesi late on Thursday night after our long safari through the rolling hills of surrounding villages. Kemgesi town is nestled on the slopes of a rocky hill in front of a treeless plain of green pasture. Our headlights didn’t allow us to gain a…
We left early Thursday morning for Kenyana, a very rural town about an hour west of Mugumu. We met Josh Miller and the pastor of the Mennonite Church in Kenyana along the roadside flagging us down. Otherwise, we may have passed right through Kenyana! Kenyana is a…
Emily Bowman and Laura Krabill are both living in Mugumu town, about an hour west of the Serengeti National Park. Mugumu is a town with connections to Goshen! Professor of nursing Jan Emswiler and her husband Kajungu lived in Mugumu before coming to Goshen. We met many…
