Tanzania: Day 7 - Bunju B and Boko

From Tanzania Album 7

What a great day it has been! Another successful day of bedkit distribution is over and a unique one at that!

We visited two school sites: Bunju B in the morning and then on to Boko where over a hundred of the children were brought in by truck to have their photos taken and receive their bedkits. What a truckload went home this afternoon, loaded up with smiling children, their bedkit bags, and brightly coloured mattresses!

We also gained a new volunteer today. Avod is our new driver and upon arrival at the first site, immediately pitched in to help line up the children and help us out with our limited Swahili. What a treasure he is!

From Tanzania Album 7

Due to threatening rain clouds we opted to take most of our photos inside a schoolroom today working in very bare surroundings with no natural backdrop and a very uneven floor. But despite all that and the fact we had over 100 extra bedkits to distribute (left over from the “rain day” on Saturday), all went without a hitch and we were on the way back to our hotel by 3:00 p.m.

It is hard to believe there are only three more days of distribution to go. Time flies when you’re having fun!

Sally Sandiford for the SCAW 2007 Tanzania travelling team.

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