VP1 Orientation and Village Move-in

The volunteer turned back, looking toward us through the rows of overgrown sunflowers and maize, as if to simultaneously assure us that she would be okay and also beg us to not leave her alone just yet. We piled back into the SIC truck, sides painted blue and red with a scene of the Boston Red Sox 2004 World Series championship, a last reminder of American life as the volunteers embark on their six weeks of village life in rural Tanzania. As we drive off, waving a temporary goodbye to the volunteer and accompanying Tanzanian teaching partner, as well as the hordes of young children who had gathered to welcome us, we breath of sigh of both relief and confidence, knowing that all 9 volunteers (3 from Harvard, 3 from the University of Arizona, 2 from UC Berkeley, and 1 from Harvey Mudd) and their 6 teaching partner counterparts entering the villages of the Kikatiti Ward are prepared to make as great or greater of an impact as they had hoped and expected when they debarked their planes at Kilimanjaro International Airport two weeks before.   Kikatiti Ward, some twenty miles outside of Arusha, between Arusha and Kilimanjaro Airport, consists of three separate villages: Kikatiti itself, Sakila, and Njeku. At a very basic level, the three villages are all very distinct and unique despite all being less than a two hour walk from one another. Kikatiti is the ward center, a village bordering on the size of a small town, consisting of more than eight thousand people, over sixty duk...
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