PEACE, LOVE, FUN: SCHOOL?!
Yes, that's right. These photos depict the daily peace, love, fun, friendship and that these children of the Mount Meru region experience on a daily basis at school.
Please enjoy these pictures, which I have complied...with fondness and poorly attempted selectivity as there are just so many!
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| Dressing up: looking pretty bad ass for a school show |
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| Water at the ready |
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| Students dressed for a performance |
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| Peace bro |
Smiles in face of the rain
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| Boys'll be boys! |
Natural flower picked for the clay pots
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| Just adorable |
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| Serious thumbs up business |
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| Rough and tumbles |
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| Ndizi (banana) time! |
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My personal favourite: art and design.
Clay mobile phones and flower pots! |
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| Typical classroom |
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| Typical clasroom take 2! Exploring nature |
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| Games: Three legged race! |
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| Riffling through the library books |
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| Little un's |
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| Music and Religion class |
Sustainable Staff
Peace Matunda started out with humble beginnings: a single room, one teacher and some international volunteers... now I am pleased to report that it is relatively self sufficient. There is a huge local work force at the school and orphanage, below are just a few of the people who make it happen.
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| Teacher Raphael: Maasai maths genius! |
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| Mumma Onesmo: 'Dinner Lady' aka makes mackande |
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Teacher Margaret
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| Teacher William: couldn't stop laughing for pictures! |
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| Best smile :) dinner lady/caretaker |
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| Stoic Head Teacher Chris |
Farewell and a final little note
This photo was taken in the last month of my placement.
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| With the 'baby class', one of Adam and I's final lunchtime classes |
At times I felt that I wasn't needed at the school: initially, in all honesty I felt this affecting me on a personal level but quickly I began to feel content with this situation knowing that the goal had been achieved, this wasn't about me but about the hundreds of kids who attended the school and will continue to in the future and the people who it employs in the local area. The opportunities that Peace Matunda is and will create for those in this area are incredible.
What all NGO's, schools, projects and the like intend to set out to do in Tanzania has in part, been achieved by Peace Matunda. There are classrooms for each standard of class, there is a teacher for each of them, there is food set out for lunch and break times and the children are receiving a much better standard of education than their government school counterpart.
Of course there's always room for improvement!? This comes at a grassroots, regional, national and global level and is a topic too vast and contentious to start a conversation about here.
There are two classrooms that need help and attention. When I left at the end of September 2012 they needed some superficial attention, decorating etc...and furniture and equipment. At the time I left the children were yet to move up to the next standard of education, by now they'll be well on there way.
Paper, pens and pencils are always needed for the classroom and monthly tests.
If you want to help you can find details of what they want and need by emailing coordinator@peacematunda.org and explaining your interest and info on how to help. Here you can be put onto the newsletter mailing list and keep up to date with it's progress.
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