It has been quite a shaky week Anna and i have been a bit ill with a flu, but am glad we are fine now. We have been visiting the women who are doing business in the market through WOCHIVI (women and child vision) who is giving them loans to start the business as capital.

We have had an opportunity to talk to some of this women who were once selling the brew, which is gongo and have now stopped, and are doing non harmful business. Like selling vegetables and starting up saloons. We began this exercise last week and we have been doing it for two days now. Its has been quiet touchy to listen to the women giving their experiences about how they struggled with the business for almost six years.

This week however, WOCHIVI, is giving a workshop to the women who have already received loans, and those of whom are yet to get the loans later the objective of this workshop has been to give the women knowledge and skills on how to run different business of their choice. We have been attending the workshops and also giving facilitation on DRUG AND DRUG ABUSE. We have mainly been talking about alcohol since it is the most abused drug.

Apart from being so occupied with the workshop we also got a chance to visit the INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL OF RWANDA. To listen to the proceedings of the Rwanda genocide killings it was quiet interesting to listen to the proceedings

It has been an informative month I have learnt a lot both from the different ways of doing facilitation and also shared a lot from the women, it has been exciting to play with the children in the nursery school at CWCD (centre for women and children development) teach them new songs from my childhood that surprised me that I could actually remember most of them maybe it was because I spent most of the time with, them I also have been learning a lot of Swahili sanifu from the children as I teach them English.

I have a few days left me and Anna will be leaving for Kenya on Friday. It has been nice to have Moses and Lynda for three days before leaving to Kampala . This has been a challenging month as well, with me getting sick and trying to work on limited time it has been really busy with working with two organization but at the same time I have learnt to exercise the spirit of teamwork.

I will surely miss Tanzania as a whole I have learnt a lot about culture and different lifestyles, of living That are quiet different from Kenya and yet this two countries are neighbours. Among the things that I will not forget about Tanzania is the experience of travelling in full daladalas that are a means of transport, the Tanzanian food that is mostly rice mixed with coconut, and many more. All in all I am looking forward to going home where I know how things work from the roads, to what greetings I should give and what time, just to feel like am in control of things again.

Hej do,
. triza