Hello from Mama in Canada!!

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A Message from Mama . . . I am sitting at my desk (in Ontario, Canada) and a chickadee (a small bird native to our area) has been trying desperately, AND I MEAN DESPERATELY, almost all day to break through the glass of my windows and join…

Volunteers of Tumaini...

May I start by wishing all a very happy and loved filled Easter holiday. I unfortunately fell ill for Easter (I am fine now), but our Tumaini family enjoyed mass/church/mosque services, celebrated pamoja (together) and enjoyed the blessings…

Report Cards from our Class II Students here at Tumaini!

Happy Birthdays, Liadi, Latifa, Zawadi and Gerehad

I am hoping all is well with friends and family of Tumaini as we are doing quite well here also. No serious illnesses despite remarkable rains and variable temperatures; hot, hot days and quite cool nights along with ideal malaria breeding grounds…

Ahsante for Swimming Party!!!

Enormous thanks to Mama Lotte (Esther's sponsor) and family and to Ella and Maya (and Mama and Baba) (Martha and Anna's co-sponsors) for hosting our family swim day and picnic.  We had a wonderful, if not chilly time of it and I think the…

March 5th from Mama...

First off, my heartfelt thanks to so very many of you for embracing my daughter Amanda’s medical emergency in the U.S. For so many prayers and well wishes sent to her, thank you. I am so very grateful to report that they have discovered her…

Jan 22nd – Feb 5th (Happy Birthday Dad) from Mama under the Net . . .

We are well for the most part . . . it is HOT! And no rain . . . the children are WONDERFUL and so big and doing incredibly well!! Our climbers summited successfully, all but one who was brought down with pulmonary edema. The other three stood…

The dogs and roosters continue to serenade us through the night . . .

Mwaka Mpia kutoka Tumaini . . . Happy New Year from Mama under the Net . . . 2:18 a.m. Jan-3-13We’ve arrived! It was not the easiest of journeys this time (technical error preventing us checking in our seventeen hockey bags - 24 hr. delay…

Please help Tumaini supporter Dave Egles and friends in their fundraising climb of Mount Kilimanjaro!!

Dave Egles (Kelvin and Connie's sponsor) and friends are climbing Kilimanjaro in January and we'd love your support!  Please visit www.climbkilifortumaini.com for further information.  Asante!! Help HES Build a New School for the Tumaini…