Just a reminder--P640 has their own blog where you can read about their experiences and adventures volunteering for PHF. Read and see more here but you may have to be a little patient--they are currently sunning Zanzibar for a couple more days!
In the meantime, you can see what they've accomplished, and it's a lot! The herb garden is HUGE and beautiful and the firepit will be greatly enjoyed by so many groups to come.
Of course, I would hate to give the impression that hard back-breaking work was all that this group did. One thing this group know how to do, in addition to raising money and working hard, is having FUN! IN addition to the usual fun of cooling off at the pool or a good meal iwth friends, there was also cultural entertainment. Our Masaai friends came from Eluai (the village I had visited and posted on previously) to do a little singing and dancing for us one evening. They were kind enough to let us all join in, too!
There are other kinds of Tanzanian music, too, that we sampled as well. Again, participating was not mandatory, but this group definitely knows how to have a good time!
There was more work, a trip to a couple other Tanzanian secondary schools to see how things work and what we may have to deal with or measure up to in our own future, and finally...
The end result! The final pics don't do justice to the amount of work that these 11 volunteers did. You'll just have to come and see for yourself. What the pictures can never show, though, are the friendships that are built and the change that takes place when someone comes on this adventure. No matter what their past experiences, each member of this group took a risk to come here in some way or another. To repeat what Isaya, our landscaper said, "You can never lose by helping an orphan." Eleven more people know exactly what he means after this week.
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