Back on the Road Again!

We're off on our next adventure -

We are back in Moshi, Tanzania for our annual technology education trip, this time for 4 weeks, instead of 2 weeks.  Moshi is located in the northeast corner of the country, near the Kenyan border and at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro.  The country is as beautiful as ever.  We have a spectacular view of Mt. Kilimanjaro from our hotel window.  Below, we see the bustle of street activities, little shops selling their specialties – shoes, clothing, plumbing, plastic chairs, tailors, electronics,  shoes, vegetables and so on.  It’s a colorful hodgepodge of capitalism.

A few years ago we decided to volunteer on a project in Africa.  The opportunity we found where we could work together was to teach Microsoft Office skills to at-risk women.  Unbeknownst to us, the volunteer organization we signed up with switched their focus to primary schools and we found ourselves at Jamhuri Primary School with 6 old computers, one teacher who spoke English well and a head teacher who wondered what the heck we were doing at their school.  

Mark & Betsey