...and more meetings

Hey all,

So since we last updated we've mostly just been going to more meetings with other NGOs. After today our list will be up to 7 organizations. They are as follows:

Mokombozi Vocational Training School
Pamoja Trust
Quohelith
Traditional Irrigation Project (TIP)
Tanzanian Traditional Energy Development and Environment Organization (TaTEDO)
Masadonia Ministry
Kilimanjaro Industrial Development Trust (KIDT)

Of these organizations at least three were not really looking for volunteers right now and some of the others didn't quite align with our interests or have their acts together well enough to support volunteers. The organizational structure here is much looser that what we are used to at home, and it is only through meeting with these different organizations that we can come to understand each group's state of affairs. In addition, many of our meeting feel like moderating a political debate, as we try to ask people what specific work they are actually conducting, only to get very vague and rambling replies. We are getting closer to a decision though, and we hope to start actual work next week.

On a side note, we ran into our friend Alice from Brown on the street two days ago. She had just returned from hiking Kili with her uncle and spotted us from inside her taxi. It was a very bizarre coincidence. We ended up having dinner with her and catching up a little bit.

Anyway, that's about it for now. We posted some more pictures, so definitely check those out.

More to come soon,
-Z&M