Megeni Women’s Group
Thank you so much to everyone involved in the two care packages that have been send to me. Especially my mom and Elena. They are great, it is great to know that I have the supprt from home. I now have enough stickers to have every child in TZ love me. My students are on holliday untill May 5th so I have been focusing my time on health work here. I am now a member of the health dept for Megeni women’s group. It is a new organization didicated to helping the people of Shimbwe, in several different areas including Health, Orphans and Economics.
I am really starting to find my place here. The last 2 weeks I have met some wonderful people. Joelle is a a 23 year old woman from California that I am creating a health program for a Shimbwe a very poor village about 30 min outside of Moshi. She has come to the mother child “baby days” in Machame with me and I will go Monday and Tuesday to Rhombo to work in a hospital there for 2 days with her. I now have a group of friends here who are long term volunteers who are each fluient in Swahili which is really helping me progress. It is my goal to be fluient by the time I leave here. So when I return in the future……
I have met several other extremly hard working effective volunteers here that have told me that they are jealous of the work I am doing here because it is making such a concrete impact on the local communities. It was very nice to here coming from such established volunteers.
I am considering staying here in Moshi for many more months, as long as I feel I am doing effective work. I do not think I will be contiuning to be a volunteer with Visions in Action. I am with them, in my current house untill July then I will likly live in a house in the area, where the money I pay goes directly to the community. I am still waiting on my residency permit. My 90 day tourist visa has run out so I am laying low untill the paperwork in complete in Das es Salam.
Overall I am living very comfortably here. I have running hot water and electric great friends and family at home: what more could a girl need?
