Kingili handover ceremony

Today is the day that our unique project reaches the highest levels of power in Tanzania.  Mrs. Tullia Akson, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, participated at this handover ceremony and wanted to know all the details of our project.  She promised to bring this project under the eyes of everybody, who matters in education.  This is a great step forward for us as hopefully we will get now support from the highest levels.  It could open the door to some funding from Tanzanian side or a least some better coordination of our efforts on district level.

Kingili is a problematic situation. They only had 4 decent classrooms for nearly 900 kids as another building has become too dangerous and is at the edge of collapsing.  So these 3 new classrooms are most welcome.

We told the village that this year we would start rebuilding the nearly collapsed building (4 new classrooms). In 2018, we will renovate the 2 other buildings and make them as new.  In 2019/20 we will add 5 extra classrooms to make this school complete.

As we had to wait quite some time for our high-placed guest to arrive, we had ample time for traditional dancing, kids performances, dance competitions, etc.  Once our guest had arrived, we could open the new building.  After that, we received beautiful gifts.  Frank Neumann, managing director of our partner Biolands and his wife Jean were also present.  She and Louisa got a beautiful African dress and Kim's Chocolates and Biolands were presented a "Certificate of Appreciation". We left the village with a lot of pottery, so we have everything to do simple local cooking :-)


Fons Maex