Team Temeke Photo

Greetings from Team Temeke! We are a team of eight volunteers from Tanzania and the UK. There are two team leaders, myself and Judy from Tanzania. The photo was taken at VETA, one of the new colleges we are working in.

Top left to right: Sian, John and Toby. Bottom left to right: Swaumu, Hellen, Judy & Alice

Facebook Page

Please like our Team Temeke Facebook page by following the below link:

https://www.facebook.com/restlessdevelopmenttemeke

We will keep it updated with news, information and photos. The main use is for the students in Tanzania but also to raise awareness of the project.

VETA College Assembly

I was very proud of my team today. We presented in front of a whole college assembly at the Vocational Education and Training Authority (VETA) and had a great response from the students who want to sign up to our career education sessions.

Tomorrow we return to the college to start advertising by putting posters up around the campus. We met the President of the Student Union today and are looking forward to meeting the course representatives tomorrow who will help us to promote and encourage students to sign-up. We also need to start recruiting peer educators at the college to help support us as Restless Development has not worked here before. We are busy planning our first education session which will be held on Wednesday.

A great start to the project! Watch this space for more good news.

John presenting during the assembly

Sian presenting during the assembly

Hundreds of VETA students at morning assembly listening to our presentation

Judy taking the mic with the rest of Team Temeke behind her

Tribes and Language

Tanzania has over 120 tribes mostly Bantu speaking. All have their own unique traditions and language. My host family are from the Chagga tribe which is the third largest in Tanzania with an estimated population of about 2 million. They are traditionally located near Mount Kilimanjaro. We visited the Village Museum in Dar es Saalam to learn about the different tribes and to see how they live.

Kiswahili is the official national language of Tanzania which we have been learning. The language is a mix of Bantu with Arabic, Portugese and Hindi. The word Swahili comes from the Arabic "Sawa hili" meaning "the coast".

With my host family and UK Kaka outside a Chagga house

Training Week

During our second week the team leaders helped train the national and UK volunteers who arrived a week later. We covered topics including:

• Communication 
• Team working 
• Cross-cultural awareness
• Working in the community
• Monitoring and evaluation 

Group photo - 34 volunteers from the UK and Tanzania

Group work during training

A group presenting the different roles volunteers play in their team

We all now feel ready to start the project and help make a difference to young people in Tanzania!

University Visits

Apologies for the lack of posts since I arrived in Tanzania. Unfortunately I was unwell for a few weeks and had lack of internet access but am now back on track!

During my first week we visited the following Universities in the Temeke district of Dar es Salaam where my team will be working:

• Vocational Education and Training Authority (VETA) 
• The Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy
• Tanzania Institute of Accountancy (TIA)

National and international team leaders

Restless Development have not worked in these Universities before so it is exciting that the project is expanding. We met the Dean of Students, the Vice Presidents as well as the President of the Student Union. All were very welcoming and happy for us to carry out many peer education sessions with their students.

The Universities are currently closed and re-open for the start of the new academic year shortly. We are planning to attend their orientation (fresher) weeks so we can raise awareness of the programme and encourage students to sign up to our peer education sessions.