This afternoon we are visiting Mkoani Primary School who we started supporting last year. Today we are bringing them one more computer to go with the 3 they received from us last year along with a printer.
When we arrive we are met by the Head Teacher who explains that they are in the middle of an inspection. He shows us to the computer room where we meet up with Leah, the teacher who writes and sends me their reports.
We all have a chat about how the school have been using the computers and how they could improve things before we give them the extra computer. They are very happy and now have some ideas about extra things they could use the computers for in the future.
We keep the visit fairly short and let the teachers get back to their inspection.
Now at present we have 3 spare computers and a printer that were originally allocated to the school we visited yesterday. Frank has suggested that we might like to visit another school close by where he recently trained the teachers. Apparently the school wanted to apply to us for some computers but didn’t manage to sent an application in on time.
The school is called Cheyo A Primary School.
On arrival we are greeted by the Head Teacher, as well as a large group of children.
We have a talk with her about our project and she shows us a couple of rooms that she thinks might be suitable for use as a computer room. We make some suggestions as to things they would need to improve but as the teachers are already trained they will be able to apply next year. In the meantime we decided to donate them one of our “spare” computers to encourage them to keep up their ICT skills and to help them start using and teaching ICT. As you can see all the children got very excited about this and crowded around the car, so much so that Pete didn’t really get any good photos. Anyway I am sure they will make good use of it and hopefully will send us a full application next year.
So that concluded our school visits for the day and we return to our hotel with an arrangement to meet up with Robert and Shabani later for dinner.
Back at the hotel we check out our room but the bathroom still has quite an unpleasant smell to it (although they say they have had a plumber in to fix it) so we decide to change rooms. The only other available room is smaller but we take it anyway.
Tonight we go for dinner at Nazareth Canteen which we have used before and does good food.
So the next day is Wednesday and we are driving to Kahama. However Robert has some business to attend to first so we don’t leave until mid morning. When we check out we are pleased to find that they have only charged us TSH 50,000 per night (around £15).
Our journey today has us driving back along the road to Nzega. It’s not particularly interesting scenery, just quite long stretches of road through open countryside/farmland punctuated by various villages along the way where you have to slow down to 50Km.
But the road is good and we are back in Nzega by 1.30. We stop here for lunch at what I can only describe as a truck stop!!
It is now about another 2 hour drive to Kahama. This seemed a more interesting journey. Here are a few photos
Firstly it always amazes me the amount of stuff that can be loaded on to 1 bicycle.
The scenery has also improved. Note the interesting outcrop of rocks in the centre of the photo below as our road will go in front of them later.
Of course we often see vehicles being repaired on the side of the road but this lorry seems to have had its whole engine removed.
At this point we now pass in front of the rocks.
On this stretch of road we see lots of people drying corn on their driveways. They use the tarmac that has been taken just off the main road to do this.
We also see a young lad who is looking after some goats but seems to be using a hand pump on a well.
Further along the road we see a huge amount of pipe work, which we believe is for a new oil pipeline from Uganda to Tanga on the coast. Apparently the route through Kenya would have been shorter but would have displaced more people so the Oil Company have chosen to use the route through Tanzania which is through more open land.
We arrive in Kahama at about 4.30. We had pre booked a hotel here but when we rang to check everything was ok they said they now only had a more expensive room available at TSH 120,000 so we said no.
We looked at a couple of other hotels but then pass the Sunshine Hotel where Robert wants to stay so we decide to have a look at what they have to offer.
They showed us a large room for TSH 30,000 (under £10). It seemed clean, had a bathroom and we could get dinner there as well. They were also really welcoming so we decided not to look any further.
We had a decent meal of fish and chips there that evening and slept pretty well.
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