To build strength snd well being in mind, soul, body, spirit. We said yes. We are a registered 501(c)(3) non profit organization established to respond to the need for schools in Tanzania. Our project is to build a secondary school in northern Tanzania. We’re partnering with a Maasai community led by the village elders and Wilson and Rose Lengima, a young Maasai couple who have made the long jour
ney from illiteracy to a university education . Our valuable in-country advisers include Angelika Wohlenberg. Angelika has worked with the Maasai for 30 years as a nurse and has built two primary schools and a secondary school. We value partnership and local ownership and have agreed to help establish the school as a response to the Maasai community’s desire for this project and at their request. We have enthusiastically agreed to the tribal elders’ decision to provide such things as land, certain local building materials, simple road construction, and a safe school environment. When we say “building a school”, we mean much more than constructing a building. In developing nations, the lack of resources can result in classrooms jammed with seventy to eighty students, one teacher, and no student textbooks. With gratitude for all who join with us, we will develop a school with the resources and staffing in place for top quality learning of mind and heart with care given to encouraging an attitude of respect for traditional culture and a desire to invest in the future of the community. We agree with Wilson and Rose and our in-country advisers who tell us that education of the mind is only part of the vision. Knowledge and skill can be misused. Hearts tuned to compassion, gratitude, self discipline, and integrity – these are also goals of an education at the school.
