Category: Africa Collaboration

A second trip to Hanga was a very positive thing for all involved, both from Ireland, and from Tanzania.

Provision of a Satellite dish brought internet to the School for the first time.  This was a good use of funds.  But a big printer was a bad buy. We thought it would be good to have one in the school but paper proved to be hardly available at all, and there was not enough electricity!  It would have been better to take good advice.

The first visit to Hanga was preceded by a major windfall. The Irish organisation Camara was looking for a reliable contact in Dar es Salaam which could provide a base for its work of distributing computers for educational purposes around the country.  The Benedictines of Hanga Abbey offered to help and Camara immediately donated 100 computers to four schools run by Hanga Abbey.  As a result, the four students of Glenstal, who comprised ‘Tanzania Team #1’, as well as a crew from Camara, were invited to Hanga Abbey to teach computer skills.  It was a win-win situation for everyone and we all worked together.