It's Official! Flights for Tanzania Team 2 have been confirmed! Also means that 8 of my team (and half of Team 4) get to play hide and seek with me around London Heathrow Terminal 3! Details of the game will be posted to respective participants in the near future.
Tanzania Co-Ordinator, Harry, is now in country and things are getting sorted an a fantastic rate, vehicle check, place to live check, placements mostly check. Harry is such a star!
Plans coming together for our arrival in Nairobi as well with transportation being arranged from the airport to a hotel right by the bus station, where we'll take our coach to Moshi. Looked into the possibility of taking the volunteers to the Carnivore for dinner in Nairobi, then had the brutal realisation of remembering just how expensive it is!!! Soooo maybe another time when everyones no longer a student....(and everyones decided they want to eat meat!)
It's now high past the time for Visa applications to happen, it's all very well sending reminders out to the team, just need to get it done myself! Must get all the paperwork and pictures sorted (should probaly get the work permit ones done whilst I'm there as well) by the end of the week.
On the fundraising side of things I've found being on Industrial Placement in a foreign country to make it rather challenging, however fantastic means of fundraising from around the world; Easysearch.org.uk! If you choose to search the web with http://faafrica.easysearch.org.uk/ then you'll raise money for us for every search you make :-) not only do you get great search results (from Bing, yahoo, Ask.com) but your helping us at the same time. 2 weeks ago we raised £2.48 in 7 days (508 searches) if we keep that up all year we can buy 1800+ bandages to send with the project to East Africa! O you can also use the easyfundraising search box I've added to the buttom of the blog which will take you directly to the search engine page, but best course of action, BOOKMARK it, or make it your homepage. Thank yoou :-)
Maddie showed me this great documentary recently (Welcome to Lagos), which was shown on the BBC in about april, unfortunately this means it's no longer availiable on iplayer, however I suggest searching for it on a popular video side and you might get lucky *wink* *wink*. Anyways the purpose of showing me the footage was to propose we look into doing something similar of the Moshi and Himo area. This will be a great little side project for our limited free time and one that integrates well with our joint interest in photography.
Can't believe its only a month and a few days till lift off now!
