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SCAW Blog: Tanzania - Distributions 1 and 2 - July 25-26 - Blogs #2 and #3

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🇨🇦

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SCAW Blog: Tanzania - Pre-Distribution Preparations - Blog #1


WHERE IT ALL BEGINS

We had an early start to our day visiting the place where a good night’s sleep for the children begins.

We visited the Super Banco mattress factory, a good partner for Mama Wandoa for 22 years. Did you know that the word “banco” comes from earlier spring mattresses that Wendy remembers jumping on? As we arrived the trucks are being loaded for our first distribution on Monday. How impressive are the colourful fabrics on the mattresses?

Some of the 6000 mattresses that they make, store for us and deliver to each distribution site. Impressive … inside the factory.

Our first meeting with Team Upendo/Sleeping Children at Mama Wandoa’s house with Mama, Benjamin and Wendy.

Mama Wandoa with ‘just a few’ backpacks stored in her house.

All of the backpacks, clothing and the kangas are made by Mama’s tailors upstairs in her house.

Benjamin showed us the cottage industry.

We are ready to go . . .

Lala Salama.

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Tanzania Is Planning Ahead

Here is an update from Mama Wendoa and the Upendo Information and Counselling Centre, our OVPs in Tanzania.


“We are getting ready for 2023 distribution. Upendo Information and Counselling Centre an OVP from Tanzania, has started preparations for the July 2023 Distribution.

Materials for uniforms and for the school/carrier bag.

 

First and foremost we want to thank our donors and SCAW for the generosity of their support.

 

This year donors, SCAW and Upendo will see 6000 children go home smiling with their bedkits which will comprise of sleeping items which are a foam mattress, a treated mosquito net, a bed sheet,  a t-shirt and a piece of wrapper (kanga) which will give the child a sound sleep, making them more ready for the next school day. Another happy moment will be them going to school wearing a new uniform. Donors have made it possible for a child to have a new white short sleeve school shirt, a pair of new shorts for boys and a new skirt for girls. They will also have a new school bag to carry their new exercise books, pens and pencils, eraser and sharpener, all these items given to them by donors in the bedkit.

Wrappers (Kanga)

As you can see in these few photos, Upendo has made it possible for the small cottage to stitch some of the bedkit items for the 6000 children. 

 

Our July 2023 distribution will also be supported by SCAW Volunteers from Canada whom we have missed for more than 3 years due to COVID 19 pandemic.  We are excited to have the team back again with us in Tanzania. KARIBU."

 

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