Amka Afrika Site is Live

Our good friend Ann is back in Tanzania living the life of a local in Babati, helping out at the school while waiting for the shipping container of school donations to arrive. 

To keep up with the happenings at Amka Afrika please visit the foundation page:  http://www.amkaafrika.org/  

Amka Afrika School

While we were in Tanzania in March, we visited the Amka Afrika school, a new school built by the Bushdrifters, our safari guides, in an under-served area  in the city of Babati.   What started as just a few hours spent with local children has now become a non-profit foundation and a shipping container full of donated school supplies (white boards, desks, books, etc). 

To get an idea of how the children at Amka touched our hearts please watch this video.



Here's a few pictures of some of our Tanzania team packing school supplies in the Quad Cities as well as the packed shipping container in the Chicago suburbs.     The Amka Afrika Foundation will have their website up and running soon.   It's amazing how quickly things have come together for this project.  As Margaret Mead said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Tanzania

Jambo!

We just got back from a great trip to Tanzania, with some of the group extending their stay into Kenya for a few more days in the African sunshine.

The main tour (not including Tarangire or Kenya) included:
Fly into Kilimanjaro Airport, overnight at the Arusha Coffee Lodge.
Two nights at Gibb's Farm.
Drive through the Ngorongoro Crater, with one night at the Ngorongoro Serena Lodge.
Drive into Serengeti National Park, with two nights at the Serengeti Serena Lodge.
Drive to Lake Manyara, with two nights at Kirurumu Tented Lodge.

Our guides:

In Tanzania, you tend to drive from place to place, so you'll have the same driver/guides for the duration of your trip as you bump along ("African Massage") in your Toyota Land Cruiser. We worked with Bushdrifters Tanzania, a small, local company owned by Tanzanians, and 5 of their guides for our group of 25. Patrick, Simon, Jeremiah, Daniel and Alphayo were all fantastic and a lot of fun.

Stories, Stories, Stories:
Rather than duplicating posts, you can link over to the blog of one of the travelers to see pictures, video and stories from Tanzania.  Click here.