Tanzania, 2022: Promises Kept to Our Donors 🇹🇿

Imagine the excitement last week for some donors who received this photo of 19 children with their bedkits.

The money was raised at an event during Christmas 2019 and our donors have been waiting patiently for this very special photograph. Mama Wandoa, Benjamin, her family members and the Upendo team worked tirelessly to distribute bedkits to 5000 children over the past six days - an incredible feat.

During our post-distribution meeting on Zoom, we were impressed with our Overseas Partners’ on-going commitment to our Sleeping Children Core Values and the promises they are keeping to our donors.

Lala salama,

Peggy Morrison

Team Tanzania, 2022

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Tanzania, July 2022: Bright ☀️ and Early on Monday Morning: Another 1000 Bedkits Distributed in Kisiwani

 

The team in Tanzania wants to say ASANTE SANA (thank you) to all the generous donors for helping another 1000 children sleep better tonight.

According to Benjamin and Mama Wandoa the teachers and the school children at the Kisiwani site are also helping the team a great deal.

Mama, of course, is supervising all of the volunteers and her eagle eye does not miss a thing. Here is her grandson, Nathan, sitting by her side tracking the labels.

Her nephew, Peter, checks the mattresses that arrive from Super Banco early in the morning and he counts them to make sure they have sent the correct number. Peter counted twice because the delivery documents showed 1000 but he was getting 999. He checked again and again and still got 999. Mama called Desai at the factory and Desai immediately sent the one mattress by motorcycle to the site. Amazing work, Peter. 👍

In Mama’s words, “I am proud of being surrounded by the hard working young generation of my family.”

With Mama as their role model, we too understand completely why this distribution is progressing so well.

Peggy Morrison
Team Tanzania 2022

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Tanzania, July 2022: It Is A Family Affair!

        

 Mama Wandoa and Benjamin have lots of support from their family and Upendo Volunteers as they continued with another distribution of 1000 Bedkits on Thursday, July 13th.

Nathan is the 15 year old son of Benjamin and one of Mama’s grandsons. We met Nathan in 2019 and he was a tremendous help to our Canadian 🇨🇦 team members. He arrived in Tanzania last Saturday and was eager to help with this distribution.

Here is what he told us: "Today we distributed 1000 Bedkits as we need to do it in 6 days rather than 10. It’s nice to say that things went pretty well. A few boys from the school came to help fold the mattresses and to offload the truck."

What an incredible family and I know we at Sleeping Children thank them for all their hard work and dedication.

Peggy Morrison
Team Tanzania 2022

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Tanzania, 2022: They're Off and Ready to Go!

 

                        Beginning the Distribution with Mama Wandoa and her team

Jambo,

The incredible Mama Wandoa is doing it again during July as she is ready, along with her family members and volunteers, to distribute 5000 Bedkits to children. Mama has stored these Bedkits in her home since 2020 as Covid prevented that distribution from happening. 

The above photo shows Mama and her helpers getting ready to take the backpacks from her house to the truck as the distribution starts on Wednesday, July 13th. Her son, Benjamin, is her capable co-leader and he will be taking our Sleeping Children photographs.

Due to the country census (happens once every ten years) taking place in Tanzania at the end of this month, Mama and her team are facing the challenge of compressing the number of days available for this distribution as the schools are being closed early. The government needs their teachers to help gather the census data.

Stay tuned as we follow this amazing woman and her team of dedicated and caring volunteers.
Lala salama (sleep well).

Peggy Morrison
TeamTanzania, 2022

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