Our Mission

To fight hunger and poverty among orphaned and vulnerable children in the Mkuranga region of Tanzania by starting a sustainable chicken farm at the Hananasif Orphanage Center.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Temporarily Displaced

This is Galen. Yesterday we visited the US Embassy, which was fun, never been in one before. Not exactly what I expected. We weren't able to go in to visit USAID without an appointment, but the Citizen Services at the Embassy gave us some useful info. We used that info to find the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Livestock Development and Fisheries today, got some good leads how to help the orphanage with government resources and info.
Today I went on a walk with Melinda that was intended to be brief, just to grab a coke. Ended up finding Pepsi, which is even better, tasted exactly like in the US. Somewhere in the process it became a 3-hour walk because we became temporarily displaced from the surroundings which we knew. Found Hananasif School a couple times, but not the orphanage. We found a cool cabbie named Steve who had a sticker that said "This car is under the protection of the blood of Jesus" on the dash and another that said "Jesus loves you, helps you" on the window. Steve knew very little English, but after visiting everyone he know that did, at a hotel, and then at some other friends' place, and then his sister, we finally got him to understand where we wanted to go. An hour after getting in, we were back. Fun times. Temporarily displaced.

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