Blog #2:
ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY
We know 750 children are sleeping peacefully tonight.🥰
Team Tanzania 2023
Upendo/SCAW🇹🇿🇨🇦
Blog #3:
Our Distribution….Every Step of the Day
The day begins with the arrival of the big ‘yellow trucks’ from Super Banco and soon the students, the Upendo volunteers and Banco drivers are busy unloading the 750 mattresses.
The team now folds and ties each mattress and stacks them neatly.
Once the backpacks are unloaded from Mama’s truck, they are sorted for big and little boys and girls.
It is time for Peggy to set up the camera for the photographs.
Meanwhile Wendy and her team are registering the students and putting on the kangas. Carol is showing how it is done as kangas serve many uses. This is how a kanga looks on the children.
Next, Benjamin calls the parents together and we talk about having a healthy, restful sleep and how all the items in the bedkit benefit and help the children get a good night’s sleep. The team shows the items to the parents to great applause.
We are ready to receive the children and take the photos. Jerome leads the way.
Before the picture is taken thumbs and kangas are marked.
Once the photo is taken backpacks and mattresses are handed out. The children proudly head back to their parents with their backpacks on and the mattress on their heads.
There are some unique ways of transporting the bedkits home.
Another successful day comes to an end.🌺👍
Lala Salama,
Team Tanzania 2023
Upendo🇹🇿/SCAW🇨🇦