Today was a cloudy and rainy day. It was about 29 degrees out and I felt cold at parts of the day, so I guess maybe I’m becoming more acclimatised to the heat! On our morning jog we had an unfortunate event happen to us. We were jogging along the beach and up ahead there was a man standing a couple meters away from the shoreline and he just dropped his pants infront of us!!!! So he was just standing there pantless, it was the strangest thing ever and we weren’t sure what to think and just sped up so we could get past him asap! Afterwards we thought maybe he only owned one pair of pants and needed to wash them or something, I donno, but it was weird! Tonight we celebrated two of the girls birthdays, one is on Mon and the other is on Tues, so we decided to go for dinner and celebrate both at once on Sat! We went to this neat little restaurant called The Arc about 15 minutes away from where were staying and it was in the shape of Noah’s Arc! They had really good food and me and another girl split a vegetarian pizza, it was delicious! It hasn’t been as hard as I thought it would be to remain a vegetarian here, so I’m happy about that!
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Earlier today I was researching different NGO’s in Tanzania related to children’s rights and I found this one in Arusha called SOS Children’s Villages, so I emailed them to see if we could visit it when we go on our week trip to Arusha at the end of June. Anyways it was just weird because later in the day I was reading the local newspaper, The Guardian, and there was a write up on this NGO!! In a nut shell the article talked about how SOS Children’s Villages is an organization that takes care of vulnerable children but after forty years in Africa are currently having funding difficulties. The formed a partnership with Customer Passion Point Limited so they can assist with fundraising instead of relying on external donors/donations, since these have declined substantially over the past years. Funds are needed to continue with their programs that are planned for this year. Although they won’t be able to have the desired number of 400 children, they are still able to raise 123 children at the center and 200 outside the center. The programs are family based care and family strengthening programmes aimed to help families in need so that children can stay with their families or relatives instead of going to orphanages. In cases where children have no family they are supported at the center and provided with health care and education.
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