So we finally did it!

In August 2006, after 3 years of fundraising, planning and preparation our team finally left for Tanzania to realise a dream that had begun back in 2003 when a team of 12 volunteers from the UK were building houses in the capital Dodoma with the charity organisation Habitat for Humanity.

“These kids don’t have a school, can we do something about it?” That was the question posed at one of our evening meetings after a day on the building site.

We decided to finish the project at hand and reconvene for a meeting back in the UK to look at the question again.

After some deliberation and consideration of all the implications and a few deep breaths we came to a conclusion. Why not?

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