The 5+ weeks of service are over. We gathered back in Musoma on Tuesday. On Wednesday we took a bus to Mwanza, and an airplane to Dar. Back in Dar es Salaam, students are staying at the YMCA once again—where they stayed the very first night. When you come back…
The other SST’ers living near Musoma came over to help celebrate! Everyone is working on a project. Maddy gave us a preview of some of her sketches from her project on designs and uses of kanga cloth. No oven, but we could still make a cake of…
Ordination of Emmanuel Matuntera and his wife Agnes Five new bishops were ordained at Shirati on Sunday. Elections back in January elevated a new generation to leadership positions within the Kanisa Mennonite Tanzania (KMT). SST service coordinator, Emmanuel Matuntera, is the new Bishop of Tarime. Sadie’s host…
Nat and Grant are working just outside Musoma. Grant lives in Nyabange and works at VI Agroforestry in nearby Bweri. At VI they raise all manner of vegetables, and grow demonstration plots showing interplanting of complimentary plants for pest control and/or increased income generation in small spaces. Grant has been…
There are four students in and around Musoma. We are visiting their work sites and families as their schedules permit. Maddy is working at the KMT Musoma Press, on the campus of the Mennonite Theological College of East Africa (MTCEA) here in Nyabange. She just finished typing the manuscript for…
Gabriel‘s host parents are farmers. They have fruit trees and maize / bean fields. Ga works on the farm on Saturdays. They have just about finished the second (and last) hoeing of the season; They don’t use any herbicides. During the week Ga is at the Kiabakari Bible College. The…
Isaac, Laura, Austin, and Cecilia are living in small villages north of Tarime. Cecilia is living and volunteering on an agricultural extension farm run by the Anglican church in Mogabiri. She finds herself editing grants, but has also learned to milk a cow. Her host mother is the director of…
Peter, Hannah, and Anna are living in Tarime. Peter is teaching physics and mathematics at Angel School–a secondary boarding school. His nickname there is Matiko Jr, since Matiko (Sr) has already been teaching those subjects at Angel. He lives on a shamba (small farm) with his father, a retired teacher…
Mara Region of Tanzania. Base map, Maps.me based on OpenStreetMap Musoma: This is the regional capital and largest town (population ~130,000) in Mara region. Paul and Kathy live just outside Musoma in Nyabange. Rachel and Maddy, and Nat and Grant are doing their service assignments in villages close to…
The first Mennonite missionaries to Tanzania came to the market town of Shirati, on Lake Victoria, near the Kenyan border, in 1934. Kevin, Kayla, and Sadie are doing their service terms here in Shirati. Sadie is working at the Shirati hospital, which has an impressive array of services including…
