We look for sponsors!

Here, you can see a presentation of the project: past, present and future: http://prezi.com/mlltnlntzd9p/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

If your basketball team or sports shop or brand is interested on sponsoring a team, just contact me: irego@tatuproject.org
If you want to donate smaller amount or just material, it is also welcome! Check the presentation!

Aquí tenemos la presentación del proyecto: pasado, presente y futuro: http://prezi.com/azolu9yk6mof/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
Si tu equipo de baloncesto, tienda o marca quiere tener su equipo en la liga local que comienza en Msitu Wa Tembo, escribe a: irego@tatuproject.tatuproject.org
Si prefieres donar otra cantidad, o simplemente material que nos pueda ser útil, ¡bienvenido! ¡Mira la presentación y verás cómo puedes ayudar!

Basketball project VIII: Setting up second phase of the project. Badaaye (see you later)

Last week on the field for Javi and me had come. Then, it was time to set up the conditions for next weeks and months, for basketball trainings in Msitu Wa Tembo. Actually, we couldn’t train on Monday and Wednesday that week, as children had vacations. We took advantage of free time on Monday to organize the meeting in TATU office (in Moshi).

Seven of the trainers who had been training the kids (Pascal, Ema, Dennis, Jonhatan, Edgar, Hilary and Ismaeli) attended the meeting. Three sports teachers from Kikwete and Msitu schools also came (Max, Kisaka and Massawe). The team was completed by Albane, Javi and me, representing TATU Project.

After discussing during two hours, we got a nice list of agreements, setting up tasks to be done by trainers, teacher and us, during the next months, until December, when a tournament will be organized to close the scholar year and basketball season (they finish school in December and start in January in Tanzania). Trainers committed to keep volunteering during this second phase. As examples of arranged tasks, teachers take over water, first aid and are supposed to learn the basics of basketball to take part in the trainings; trainers are supposed to plan daily and evaluate monthly, as well as register attendance; and TATU members (we) will look for sponsors to keep improving the conditions for future phase three.

La última semana de nuestra estancia en Tanzania había llegado. En ella, teníamos que asegurarnos de que el proyecto de baloncesto iniciado sigue funcionando tras nuestra marcha, que sigue habiendo entrenamientos en Msitu Wa Tembo. Paradójicamente, no pudimos entrenar durante esa semana porque era de vacaciones para los niños; así que aprovechamos el tiempo que quedaba libre el lunes para organizar la reunión en la casa-oficina de TATU.

En la reunión contamos con siete de los entrenadores que habían empezado ya con los niños (Pascal, Ema, Dennis, Jonhatan, Edgar, Hilary and Ismaeli), tres profesores de educación física de los colegios implicados (Max, Kisaka y Massawe), y también estábamos Albane, Javi y yo, en representación de TATU.

Después de dos horas de reunión, teníamos una bonita lista de acuerdos, estableciendo las tareas de entrenadores, profes y gente de TATU durante los próximos meses, hasta el torneo que se organizará en diciembre para cerrar el año escolar y temporada de baloncesto en los coles (en Tanzania, el curso escolar dura de enero a diciembre). Los entrenadores se comprometieron a seguir trabajando de forma voluntaria hasta el final de esta segunda fase. Como ejemplos de tareas acordadas, los profesores se encargan del agua y primeros auxilios y de aprender lo básico sobre baloncesto para poder participar en las sesiones; los entrenadores deben planificar cada entrenamiento, entregar una evaluación mensual y comprobar la asistencia; y desde TATU nos encargaremos de buscar patrocinadores para mejorar las condiciones de cara a la tercera fase.

So it was time to prepare some notebooks for head coaches (following model from CB Zona Press in schools in San Sebastián de los Reyes, Madrid), and some small guidelines for other trainers and teachers (contacts, tasks, rules, first aid protocol…). On Friday, they were done for last training. Albane, Javi and me took over last details, while Dennis, Hilary and the others were conducting the training. As it was a special training during vacations, less than half of the children were there.

Así que tocaba ponerse manos a la obra para tener listos los cuadernos de entrenador (basados en el modelo del CB Zona Press para los coles de Sanse) y pequeñas guías para entrenadores ayudantes y profesores (contactos, tareas, reglas, primeros auxilios…). El viernes, ultimamos algunos detalles durante el entrenamiento, dirigido por Dennis, Hilary y los demás entrenadores. Como era un entrenamiento excepcional en época de vacaciones, ni la mitad de los niños pudieron venir.

The training was great. Seeing it from outside, how Dennis explained shooting technique, step by step, nobody better than Fish for explaining shooting! I think all of us felt proud of our work. When saying goodbye to teachers (oh, Mwalimu Max! we will miss you so bad!) and children, I just thought how well they will play basketball next time.

Ver el entrenamiento desde fuera fue genial. Dennis explicó la técnica de tiro, paso a paso, como si de un vídeo de Jota Cuspinera se tratara. ¿Quién mejor que Fish para explicar el tiro? ¿Sabéis de dónde sacó ese mote? Del sonido que hacía el balón al entrar por el aro en una buena serie de triples. Es un mote de jugón, ¿eh? Las despedidas siempre tienen su punto de tristeza, pero cuando puedes pensar en lo bien que jugarán al baloncesto la próxima vez… Es imposible no sonreír.

But that was not all for our last day. We finished going to Baptist court for the last game, enjoying playing with our friends one more time. We said thank you, they also said so, and we finally said Badaaye, marafiki! (see you later, friends!).

Para terminar nuestro último día, fuimos a Baptist a disfrutar el último partido con nuestros amigos. Agradecimos el trabajo realizado, y ellos también; y nos despedimos con un ‘Badaaye, marafiki!’ (¡Nos vemos, amigos!)

Health project II: Teaching mamas

I didn’t expect teaching mamas was going to be that great! They are participative, dynamic and funny, so funny. And I didn’t have that much trouble to catch their attention. They had told me that it could happened that they fall asleep at class…

I guess having advice from Jimena, Itxaso and Javi has been paramount in this successful experience. They suggested me to do a lot of things for catching their attention: well, we did quizzes, jokes and a lot of theatres. Even when a dead bat fell down from the ceiling, I pretended to be doing CPR: oh! We laughed a lot during these two seminars.

By the way, we talked about first aid, about unconscious casualty in the first day, and more common cases in the second day: foreign body obstructing airway, wound disinfections, alarm signs in head trauma, nose hemorrhage… In all cases, we (Mwalimu Sara and me) focused in three main things: check for Danger, ask for Help, and use GLOVES. I prepared the seminar based on the European Resuscitation Council Guidelines, adapting the info using a book specialized on these kind of coursed in East Africa.

The good thing of this group of women (empowered by TATU) is that all the knowledge I spread between seven women on Tuesday and Friday, is spread on Saturday to all the rest, around one hundred women.

I think the seminars have been useful for them (I hope they will improve for example the way they disinfect wounds in their children), and I really enjoyed the time spent with these seven women.

Basketball Project VII: forth and fifth trainings for trainers

After discussing about main individual skills, time came for tactics. We did two sessions. We were not able to talk about many things, but discussion about the few of them was really interesting.

The first one was about man to man defense. Using the coach board, we set up several rules for defending, as orientating towards the side, defending aggressively in one-pass distance, being ready for rotations when you are in two-pass distance… We talked about them, they were very participative giving other ideas, and then we applied everything in 3 on 3, and then in 5 on 5.

The second consisted on transitions. We first discussed about the number of players who should try to get offensive rebound and the number of them who should go straightly to defense (defensive transition). Then, we did an exercise for practicing one of the models. Javi took over offensive transition. He explained a model, and we did an exercise for practicing. We finished with 5 on 5 applying both parts.

Health project I: Just considering ideas

TATU Project is a little organization, like a baby. It’s growing fast and I believe it’s growing in the good direction, or even better, it is not growing only in one direction, but it is observing all the ways, before advancing so much. Well, the fact is that I love the way they (we?) think and act. What I wanted to say is, inside a small organization, the health project has just been born: so, we are trying to get a lot of information (by the social study we talked about but not only) and making the correct contacts.

As Albane, one of the founders, has come back and we are having less work in the last two weeks, we managed to have a couple of interesting meetings.

First, it was with Wazo, a local organization which is focused on HIV prevention (look at this, TATU touches many fields of action but only in one place, as Wazo focuses just in one specific field, just one disease, but spread its action geographically). We got to know them through basketball, and our goals are complementary, so we will work together for sure, having to determine the accurate way. A possibility is empowering some members from group of mamas to be able to teach about stopping transmission of HIV.

Some days after, we met with 3 medicine students (Lugano, Adams and Hans), who are studying “MD” 5^th at KCMC. I met Lugano by chance when visiting the hospital. As they are interested on community health and they know already a lot because that’s an important subject in their curriculum, they are probably the best for being asked for advice in health issues. They like the project, and future collaborations will happen.

Besides all these, Jimena, Javi and I have been working with the group of mamas, giving seminars about basic health topics. Mine is being first aid. I will talk later about it.

Basketball project VI: Second week of trainings

The good progresses with dribbling and passing by the children allowed the trainers to start with some skills about shooting. Let’s say individual skills are being learnt without problems, children are really enthusiastic about them and really pay attention. But when it comes to team work… It gets complicated!

Our advice is being to play different games which need children to collaborate and think together about the solution to a problem. It opposes the traditional, and quite established in Tanzania, method of direct commands. Actually, you may pass by a Tanzanian class and hear repetition of the numbers until infinite. The idea is giving another vision through sport. Trainers like the idea and we can see some very original games played in Msitu Wa Tembo playground.

Also, during this second week, Javi and me, initiators of the project, have taken some distance. So, trainers have more space for designing and performing their sessions. We are happy with progresses, and, which is so more important, trainers also.

At the same time, sports teachers of the school are getting closer, showing interest for participating on the sessions, what would be taken into account at setting up of next months (coming soon).

Basketball project V: Second and third trainings for trainers

During the second week of the program, we met on Tuesday and Thursday with our friends in Baptist. They kept showing interest and we went through more individual skills: dribbling and passing on Tuesday, and defending skills and pivots on Thursday. We agreed on teaching first dribbling and passing to children in Msitu, giving them the basic skills of movement before starting teaching shooting, lay-ups…

We kept going with the same scheme, with the way of teaching the skill form zero at the start, performing some games that can be done with children. Then, we talked about what we can do for improving further, doing some exercises for improving the speed and control.

In the pictures, some of the (already) trainers are performing a game for passing, and ‘mirror game’ and ‘king of dribling’ (for teaching protection dribbling).

Our friends, players/trainers from Baptist court, started to be more participative, and they reminded us about ball handling without dribbling, and passing with two balls, practicing two kind of pass at same time.

This last picture is from Javi’s display about pivots and first step.

Social study II: getting lost in area B

Msitu Wa Tembo has 6500 inhabitants and is divided into 5 areas, with original names (Majengo, Londoto) and not that original (A, B, C). My home visiting is being focused mainly in area B. It’s not the biggest at all, but it’s enough to feel lost between sand and clonic houses. With the sun above us, thinking while walking gets hard, and after some mistakes during first days which made me walk some extra kilometres, I decided the solution was… drawing a map!

How hadn’t I thought of it before? I could count steps from every point to each other and make a perfect map of area B for next volunteers coming! Hahaha, of course, it came out that counting steps was not doable at all, so I had to do it counting electricity poles. For now, it is just a draft, but in few days it will be ready for updating google maps! xD

Well, I was supposed to talk about how is the home visiting going. We are starting to work quite efficiently, I think we realize quicker now which the problems are. However, it is hard to talk with people in such a difficult situation and not be able to help immediately. We have to keep our goal in mind: the more information we get, the wiser our actions will be.

Anyway, there was a very good new last week. We would meet Cre.Aid, a friend NGO which develops architecture projects, to select some cases from Msitu Wa Tembo in order to help them rebuilding their house or business. We met them and there were several interesting ideas, which will give sense to the work we have been doing.

Basketball project IV: An idea which becomes true

When I sent the first message to my friends in Baptist during May, this was the image I had in my mind. Of course, I would have been happy with any partial success. I didn’t expect to find people as Mwalimu Max, the head coaches Dennis and Hilary… They have been so enthusiastic and they are the reason the first idea became true.

What I did expect was that working together with my Spartan friend Javi would be great. So it is being.

In this important day basketball landed in Msitu Wa Tembo, we first checked how was the final outcome of the home-made playground. I love it.

 

Then, we made sure we had the list with the children who will take part in this activity. For starting, 27 children aged 11-12 and 26 children aged 8-9.

When the trainers from Baptist arrived, we wore our t-shirts and prepare ourselves, reviewing the plan. Here, the red team, composed by Javi, Hilary (head coach), Emanuel and Zacha.

 

Children arrived and games started. They were quite shy at the start, and they are not used at all to this kind of training. There is much work to be done, but also a lot of energy to make it possible. Trainings last 90 minutes, and in this case, we shared the basketball court, so each team had half of the time of basketball, and half of the time of other games, including games to get to know each other. Here, orange team during basketball part. We were Dennis (head coach), Peter, Alpha and me.

The younger red team finished the training shouting together!

After the training, evaluation meeting with all the sports teachers (who were observing the training, as well as hundreds of children) and all the trainers. As I said, there is much work to be done. Anyway, today is a good day.

Batalla a los pies del Meru

Nuestros soldados, compañeros de Baptist, nos invitaron a lo que debía ser un encuentro amistoso el pasado sábado. Javi se iba de safari, así que sólo yo pude aceptarlo.

Las tropas tenían orden de reunirse a las 12.30 (6:30 en swahili), para partir hacia el campo de batalla. Haciendo gala de las costumbres tanzanas, los coches a reventar de contendientes no salieron antes de las 13.30. Aún así, hubo tiempo para reponer fuerzas ya en Arusha, territorio enemigo: un buen wali na samaki (arroz con pescado) para afrontar el regreso al campo de batalla, después de más de cuatro meses en los que tuve que conformarme con entrenamientos.

En torno a las 16:00, llegamos al escenario; sería pues, a los pies del Mt Meru donde nos enfrentaríamos a un ejército que llegaba con cuenta gotas. Nos preparamos a las órdenes de Soster: todo estaba listo.

Pronto quedó claro que la batalla sería a muerte, nada de amiguismos. Las canastas y los golpes se repartían a gran velocidad, recibiendo nuestra cuadrilla muchos más de ambos. No había reglas pese a que sí estaba el encargado de aplicarlas.

Sólo siete u ocho de nosotros tomamos parte en la contienda, dando idea de la seriedad del asunto. Con la mitad del tiempo cumplido, tuvimos que cambiar la estrategia defensiva, de zona a hombre, para poder tener alguna posibilidad. Dio resultado, pero poco a poco, mientras se acercaba el final del partido, y con ello, más intensidad, más piques, rozando la pelea. Dos minutos y habíamos conseguido empatar tras otros dos minutos de defensa a muerte.

Triple de Peter, hay que seguir defendiendo como antes del tiempo muerto y lo tenemos. Pero esta vez falla la presión en el medio del campo, el base encuentran la salida, y anota fácil. No pasa nada, aún tenemos un punto de ventaja. Anotamos. Tras su pérdida de balón, ya casi está, pero me equivoco en la salida del contrataque, roban y anotan. Siguiente ataque, a solo un punto ellos están crecidos, nos atrancamos, Dennis se queda aislado en la esquina, consigue pasarme el balón, venga, ¡me la juego! Mierda, ésta era la esquina mala (el aro mira hacia el otro lado). Tarde para rectificar, pero… ¡Sí! ¡Triple! Ahora atacan ellos, se precipitan, corremos el contrataque, hay que parar y asegurar la victoria; da igual, ¡Zacha anota rápido!  ¡Ganamos de 6!

Social study I: consiguiendo información para planear acciones eficientes

Como había dicho, gran parte de nuestro trabajo con TATU se basa en realizar visitas domiciliares a gente con problemas, de modo que podamos emprender acciones apropiadas en un futuro, desde conectar gente con habilidades sinérgicas, hasta la creación de espacios adecuados para la expresión y la ayuda mutua, pasando por dar ideas o seminarios a sectores concretos de la población.

Msitu Wa Tembo tiene 6500 habitantes y no es para nada lo que yo me imaginaba en cuanto a extensión y distribución de las casas. El paisaje es casi desértico, a excepción de la franja de tierra cercana al río, y las casas se extienden muy dispersas en una amplia llanura que va desde el río hasta las ‘Silver Mountains’, donde están las casa de los masáis.

Partiendo de las entrevistas realizadas previamente, creamos un nuevo modelo (con la ayuda de Ainara, trabajadora social y pieza clave de TATU) que intenta profundizar especialmente en temas de salud. De todas formas, cualquier información es útil. Por este principio, tampoco rechazamos sentarnos un rato con personas que no estén en la lista y quieran contarnos sus problemas.

Formamos tres equipos de trabajo, cada voluntario con uno de los coordinadores locales de la organización. Yo voy con Yohana, quien me ayuda con el swahili y aporta también algunas ideas.

Tras la primera semana haciendo este trabajo (bienvenido fin de semana), empiezas a manejar los conceptos de futuro y dinero de otra manera. Esto es lo que más me ha llamado la atención. No existen planes de futuro, ni siquiera a medio plazo. Prácticamente, para muchas de estas familias, sólo existe el día de hoy. Ir a la shamba (tierra de cultivo) y esperar que haya trabajo que hacer, poder hacerlo, cobrar 1000 TSH (medio euro), y comprar comida para ese día. Eso es todo. Generalmente, no hay un hobby o alguna otra actividad para pasar las horas restantes de día. Y ahí está nuestro trabajo, más allá de identificar necesidades de salud: ver qué motiva realmente a cada persona y si se puede iniciar alguna acción que de manera sostenible mejore la calidad de vida de un sector de esta población.

Dicho esto y aunque haya momentos duros, estoy encantado con la posibilidad de conocer a estas familias más de cerca, practicar swahili… Y, generalmente, se ponen muy contentos de recibir nuestra visita.

Al acabar cada jornada, comemos en la casa de Mama Hamida, preparando la comida en la imagen.

Basketball project III: first training for trainers, shooting and lay-ups

The idea of these trainings is to share information in multiples ways rather than just give our point of view on teaching basketball. First day, I lead the way talking about shooting, as Javi did the same with lay-ups.

We focus first on elements of the basic skill, then how to help children in their first steps. Later, we talk about which things we have to improve when we want to reach the next level, and we finish each skill with some games or exercises in order to train, correct each other, and also have a good time.

It made me feel happy how funny was playing the game we call in Spain “¿Qué apostamos?” You try to guess how many shoots will your teammate make, and people who miss have to run and make push-ups. So funny.

It was great as well to hear that they were training with these exercises the day after our talk. We think some good coaches will come out from this.

Basketball project II: building the playground at Msitu Wa Tembo

In Msitu Wa Tembo, there was not any basketball court. There is not an only meter of concrete ground. There is sand everywhere. Walls have usually roofs, so they are not suitable for attaching a hoop. Hakuna matata (there’s no problem). We are lucky that we are counting during this tough week with enthusiastic Mwalimu Max (mwalimu means teacher).

First, we were so lost that we even considered to place a hoop in this tree:

Mmm, plenty of children in that picture. Of course, each movement we have done during these days have been followed for an army of children, wondering what were these mzungus (foreigners) doing.

Mwalimu Max was more ambitious, and decided to build a structure for the hoops we brought thanks to CB Zona Press. Building had started. Removing sand, cutting trees for the support, digging, removing obstacles… Everything was going on so quickly that we got surprised. It is not being “pole pole” (slowly). Also, we needed to ask “fundi wa weldin” (the one who welds), to adapt the hoops.

 

 

Work was still going on, but we were happy that it seemed everything would be ready for starting on Monday, when basketball will start to happen in Msitu Wa Tembo.

On Friday, we could see the hoops already prepared for being buried in the holes. It was a hard day, cycling all around in order to get the bolts, necessary for attaching the pieces, but it paid at the end! It was also a good new that Hilary, one of the new trainers, came for taking a look and meeting the teachers.

Basketball project I: introducing ourselves and the project in Baptist court

It was a great moment when approaching to the court more than 1 year after I said “Kwaheri” (Bye). I didn’t expect I would come back, but I got the chance to be back in Moshi and initiate this promising project, with my friend Javi Herrera, and thanks to TATU Project.

Dennis came to say “Karibu tena” (Welcome again), and we just joined to the match. Lead by Dennis and Thomas, the team seems to be at least as healthy as 1 year ago, even though there were some absences. Basketball happens EVERY day, at 5pm, in Baptist court.

In the meeting at the end of the training/match, we had the opportunity to talk about the project, which had been already known and accepted by them. It consists in 6 trainings for trainers, during these 4 weeks, at the same time as basketball classes for children are initiated in Msitu Wa Tembo, a small village in the countryside, without access to sports education.

We went also other two days before trainings for trainers started. The project was officially running!

* In the pictures, some of the players who showed interest on coming to Msitu Wa Tembo from next Monday, becoming basketball coaches: Ismail, Hilary, Alpha, Dennis, Emanuel.

Nos ponemos en marcha

Una de las principales acciones que ya ha puesto en marcha TATU Project es la creación de un espacio de reunión y expresión para las mujeres de la comunidad de Msitu Wa Tembo. A través de asociaciones en un grupo grande y diez más pequeños, colaboran para optimizar los recursos de los que disponen y comparten ideas para mejorar individualmente y como grupo.

Pues ahí estábamos nosotros, en nuestro segundo día en Tanzania, y viajando en camión hacia Msitu Wa Tembo. Los sábados, hay reunión del ‘grupo de mamas’, y este sábado nos tocaba a nosotros presentarnos, a Jordi decir “adiós” y a Daniela decir “hasta pronto”.

Llegamos y ya estaban preparadas unas 60 mamas para empezar la reunión. Nos presentamos una por una con el respetuoso “shikamoo”, y luego nos presentamos públicamente diciendo nuestros nombres y explicando lo que pensábamos hacer contando con ellas. Haremos unos seminarios relacionados con temas básicos de salud. Diez mamas, líderes de los diez grupos pequeños atenderán los seminarios, dos semanales, y el sábado transmitirán lo aprendido al grupo total. Algunas de éstas, prepararon unas frases en español para saludarnos.

Eso va a ser lo que haremos nosotros en interacción con el grupo de mamas; pero lo más importante es ver cómo este grupo que TATU ha reunido, parece que no necesita de TATU para seguir funcionando. Tiene una estructura, con presidenta, tesorera, que garantiza la sostenibilidad, y ése es siempre el principal objetivo, a mi parecer, cuando se trata de apoyar el desarrollo de una comunidad.

Otra de nuestras funciones, que ya hemos iniciado, es la de seguir adelante con el estudio social que TATU ha iniciado en esta aldea de 6500 habitantes. Partiendo de entrevistas previas que dan una idea de qué personas (y áreas) necesitan ayuda más urgentemente, nosotros tenemos que profundizar en la situación de estas familias, y tratar de centrarnos especialmente en el punto de vista médico. Todo esto es necesario para poder plantear acciones eficientes y centradas en lo más urgente. Por suerte, contamos con un coordinador local cada uno, que nos ayuda a superar las barreras de idioma. Contaré más de estas visitas domiciliarias, que me están dando la visión más cercana posible del modo de vida en familias que viven a límite.

Javi, además, es encargado de realizar los contactos y conseguir la información para establecer un plan de control de VIH. De momento, hemos conseguido establecer contacto con otras dos ONGs que trabajan específicamente con este gigantesco problema de salud. Las interconexiones entre ONGs pequeñas me parecen una manera interesantísima de trabajar y que nos puede guiar a mejorar las condiciones de vida en Msitu Wa Tembo.

Por otra parte, Itxaso es la encargada de colaborar con TEACH, otra pequeña ONG con la que TATU planea acciones conjuntas, especialmente en el tema de higiene y salud femenina.

Hay muchísimo que hacer, lo cual es genial, ¡pero a la vez no me deja tiempo para nada!

Karibu

¡Hola! ¡Hello!

Con más de una semana de retraso, aquí llego con mi nuevo blog desde Moshi, Tanzania. Este año, con tres proyectos en mente que ya se han iniciado y de los que podréis informaros aquí, he venido acompañado de tres amigos: Javi, Itxaso y Jimena.

Trabajo con TATU Project, una ONG con una filosofía que engancha, y en donde me he encontrado de nuevo con Daniela y me encontraré con Albane, de quienes he aprendido gran parte de lo que sé sobre la ayuda al desarrollo y voluntariado. Trabajamos en Msitu Wa Tembo, una pequeña aldea a una hora en camión, en un terreno bastante desértico. Se respira un buen rollo genial en casa y estamos a tope de trabajo. Vamos.

With more than one week delay, here it is my new blog from Moshi, Tanzania.

This time, with three projects I’ll talk about, I came with my three friends Javi, Itxaso and Jimena.

I work with TATU Project, a NGO with a nice philosophy, leading to efficient actions taking into account the necessities of the community. I met again Daniela and will meet Albane. I have learnt from them a big part of what I know about development of small communities and volunteering. We work at Msitu Wa Tembo, a small village one hour by truck from Moshi, in a dessert-like area. Nice atmosphere at home and plenty of work to be done. Come on.

PD/By the way: esto de traducirme a mí mismo lleva su tiempo así que iré cambiando de idioma depediendo del tema/ this thing of translating myself takes a while, so I will rather switch from one to another depending on the purpose.

KESHO (hasta mañana/ see you tomorrow)