Do a Little Dance
Sometimes, life is best expressed without words....so, let's....GET DOWN TONIGHT! The Msaranga girls showing them how it's done at the Gabriella Center. Vumi and a parent bust a move. Gabriella's...
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The Many Faces of Edwin Ludovick
I feel like the title of this week's blog entry could belong to a short story by James Thurber or E.B. White but, in actuality, it refers to the child pictured below, one Edwin Ludovick Lema, Standard...
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Saving Grace
Meet Grace.She is a nine-year-old Tanzanian girl who was brought to The Toa Nafasi Project by an American volunteer named Gavin.Grace lives with her mama in the Moshi neighborhood of Majengo, but...
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Relax, It's SpedEx
From the June 7th edition of The Guardian: Tanzania Lacks Special Needs Education ExpertsTanzania has only 134 special education experts distributed in several municipalities, the Parliament was told...
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Tanzania's Got Talent
From the June 5th edition of the Tanzania Daily News: Identifying, Developing Your Child's TalentElementary to primary school is where it all starts in building and developing your child's talent....
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La Vie en Rosenbloom
Shalom vipi, dear readers, and my apologies for the last two newsy entries and today's unfortunate puff piece. It's been a busy couple of weeks and I have not had time to put pen to paper (or fingers...
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Happy Tanz-iversary to Me!
Okay, I know I promised no more silly posts, but allow me this last one as I celebrate my SEVENTH year of living/working in Tanzania! It's true, it was July 4th, 2007 that I first set foot in this...
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Movin' On Up
No, not to the East Side -- and, certainly not to a deluxe apartment in the sky -- but The Toa Nafasi Project has indeed moved up! Or rather, over, to be more precise, to a classroom in the nursery...
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Wals and Wags and Angi, Oh My!
Hello dear readers, I hope everyone is well this week. Things continue to go swimmingly at Toa Nafasi and big changes are afoot. I mentioned last week that we had moved classrooms and are now...
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Furahi-Day!
Okay, this post makes decidedly less sense since I'm way late to put it up, but the title refers to "Friday" nicknamed by Tanzanians the country over as Furahi-day, furaha being the Swahili word for...
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Additional Faces of Edwin Ludovick
This'll be real quick since I'm already running late to start my day/week, but I wanted to put something up since I haven't posted in far too long. A couple weeks back, I wrote about a young man named...
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Kicking and Screaming
Greetings from New York City, my dear readers! Bet you all weren't expecting that one!! I am more than pretty sure that what with my busy months of June and July (travel, illness, wageni, personnel...
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Jenga
Okay, so this entry does not actually feature the game of Jenga in which players take turns removing one block at a time from a tower and then attempt to re-balance each removed block back on top of...
View ArticleBlink Blink, or Can't Stop the Cuteness Redux
This is just a silly, throwaway post as it is a holiday weekend here in the U.S. and I am actually swamped with other work at the moment - finances, fundraising, and feelin' funky (I jest....) - but...
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Angi of the Morning
I feel like I've not been posting very linearly lately about the events that are transpiring around Toa Nafasi and that that is indicative of either just how cray-cray busy the past few months have...
View ArticleSuccess Academy, 'The New York Times Magazine,' and Public Education
Once again, I must apologize for the long delay in posting a new blog entry. As usual, there is too much to do and not enough time in which to do it! At any rate, a personal update on Toa Nafasi to...
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It's Fun to Stay at the K.C.M.C.
This post isn't particularly timely, but I finally have a moment to write it, so here goes....I have mentioned several times that one important aspect of The Toa Nafasi Project involves a "referral"...
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Climate for the People....?
In the last week, two things relating to climate change (and, subsequently, education) caught my eye.The first was the occasion of largest and most diverse climate march ever, in which more than...
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Saving Arts Ed
In today's edition of The Answer Sheet blog on the Washington Post's website, Valerie Strauss highlights the importance of arts education by featuring a piece by New York Times Magazine writer, Michael...
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"Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue"
The subject of this blog entry is taken from Deuteronomy 16:20, the fifth book of the Torah, or Hebrew Bible. Though I am not a deeply religious person (for those who don't know, I am...
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