Jambo! Greetings and happy New Year from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Welcome to the Goshen College Tanzania SST 2025 Blog! We (the Graber Roths) are eagerly awaiting the arrival of our Tanzania SSTers. They land at Julius Nyerere International Airport here in Dar es Salaam in a few…
On Tuesday April 4 we took a bus from Musoma to Mwanza where we spent one night to enable our very early morning flight to Zanzibar. We lugged our bags to the bus at 4:45 a.m. and after a layover in Dar, we arrived in Zanzibar Wednesday afternoon around 2:30…
Monday April 3, 2023 Yesterday the students safely returned from their respective towns to Musoma! It was a joyous reunion for the students, as many had not seen one another for 5 weeks.
Friday March 24, 2023 Naomi – Lake Victoria Disability Center On Friday we visited Naomi and Trevor at their respective service locations in Musoma. Naomi is assisting at the Lake Victoria Disability Center, a non-profit that seeks to provided vocational educational opportunities for students, including those with…
Thursday March 23, 2023 We started our day meeting Destiny at Paroma Primary school on the outskirts of Musoma. This is a private “English Medium” school – meaning it teaches students all subjects using English instead of Kiswahili – for grades 1-7. Were we greeted with a flood of eager…
Saturday March 18 – Monday March 20 Saturday mid-day we arrived in Kemgesi, a short 1 hour drive from Mugumu. We met Billy and Emily who were hanging out in the their favorite canteen on main street Kemgesi. It was immediately obvious that they have been warmly accepted into the…
Thursday March 16 & Friday March 17 We left Shirati on Thursday morning and made a quick run to the border so that our family could extend our visas for another 90 days…. the 30 minutes in Kenya was a short and sweet visit! The drive from Shirati to Mugumu…
Tuesday – Wednesday March 14-15, 2023 After a short drive Tuesday morning from Nyayero to Shirati, we met the three students studying in Shirati, Annalise, Annika, and Tyson. The rains have begun which meant the drive was a bit slippery and our meetings with some of the supervisors were a bit delayed.
Monday March 13, 2023 Today we drove from Musoma to Nyayero to visit Irving Matute who is teaching at Nyayero Secondary School. We arrived in time to see the remaining 20 minutes of his English teaching lesson. Wow, he is doing great – commanding the attention, adoration, and respect…
Sunday March 12 Our silence on the blog has been noticeable perhaps! We have let the students settle into their service placements and now we are about to launch our service tour to visit each of them. We will leave Monday morning March 13 and visit Nyayero (Irving), Shirati (Annalise,…
