Aid2Africa.co.uk
UK Registered Charity 1119045
Building on success - Making a difference

The aim of the project is to build a canteen which can be used by the school children. It will provide shelter from the burning sun in summer and the cold and rain in winter. It will provide the community with another building which can be put to good use at other times.

A brief History of the project in Nkwawangya
from Jennifer

Jambo!
 
In August 2007 I set out on a journey to Africa.  Part of the journey to Africa involved voluntary work in a village called Nkwawangya, Tanzania where I met a fantastic group of people who were to be the group I would work with to finish off an Education Centre for the community.  Basically, this building would be used to teach skills such as carpentry and sewing, the community could use it to further their skills in many different manual, non academic, industries.  This was necessary because in Nkwawangya there isn't a lot of money and although Primary Education is free in Tanzania, secondary education is not and not everyone gets the opportunity to go.  The building was built with the Charity, Madventurer.  They have had a massive input in building and improving some of the Education buildings in Nkwawangya and surrounding villages.  It was there that I spoke to Edgar, one of the villagers and Nkwawangya African project organisers, who explained to me that there is a need for a canteen because the children at Nkwawangya Primary School have to eat outside in winter and summer.  In winter is can be very cold and rainy and in Summer incredibly hot and difficult to find shelter from the sun.

Nkwawangya is based in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, it is stunning, a place full of banana trees and plenty of beautiful surrounding villages, a poor place where there is poverty and lack of money to develop the village.  It's a very warm and friendly place, smiling faces of people in the community line the roads whilst people chop the bananas off the trees and the closeness of the community means everyone works together to improve the actual growth of the village's school and community facilities along with the help from Charities.

So here we are, ready to begin our challenge.  Every penny raised will go towards improving the lives of children in Africa!  A canteen will start to be built by liaising with the headmistress in Nkwawangya, Madam Urassa and Edgar Urassa, who have provided us with valuations and timescales.  The project will be lengthy and done in stages, the end result will be beyond worth it!  As a group, along with Aid2Africa, who we are delighted to be working in conjunction with, are delighted to start making a difference to the community we love so much back in Africa! 

Please visit our donation page on the Charities Trust website and make a donation if you wish Click to make an online donation and see what is being done to raise money for the Tanzania project or email admin@aid2africa.co.uk for more information from us.

 Asanta sana
(thank you very much in Swahili)
 
Jen

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Two young women, Kat Slot and Jennifer Thomas-Whittington who have worked as volunteers on the community project wanted to extend it by building a communal kitchen / dining hall. Having spoken with them at length, Aid2Africa.co.uk are proud to be able to help them with this worthwhile project. It reflects our desire to live up to our name. We are actively working with communities the Zimbabwe, Kenya and now Tanzania.

Peter, Edwina, Roger and Janine

Welcome to Amelia Robinson who as made contact with us. She was one of the group working on the original project in Nkwawangya and wants to be involved again, with us, on this latest development. May 2009. Anjana Daniel has contacted us, she worked on the project as well.