OCDEM, Churchill Hospital Donate two Computers for schools

The Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism in The Churchill Hospital, Oxford University have kindly donated two computers which will be taken out to Tanzania in July. The computers will be installed in secondary schools in the Rungwe District of Tanzania and will allow students to access some of the latest educational packages, and all for free. A big thank you to Bonolo and Liliane for making this happen!

Ashley

Race Night Raises an Impressive £1227

The Tanzanian Charity Link Race night which was held on Saturday 15 May 2010 at Whitehaven Rugby League Club raised an impressive £1227.

The event was supported by Members of the Cumbria Rungwe Community Link, family friends and work colleagues. The night was full of fun and games with people betting on race horses and participating in 'Toss the Coin' at a bottle of whisky and a bottle of wine which raised £40 alone!

The entertainment was provided by local singers Tom Salmon and Emma Dockray who did a fantastic job in keeping the crowd entertained during the interval. Neil Gribbin hosted the Race Night along with Gary and Louise McCartney.

One of the Link Leaders, Don Allen thanked everyone who had given up their spare time to support the Charity Event which was a huge success. The funds raised will be taken out to Tanzania in July this year and will be used towards the costs of building projects in schools in Rungwe and the local area.

Thanks to Paul Goodwin for allowing the Link to use the WRLFC clubhouse. 

Donations towards the night were received from High Grange Developments, DBD Nuclear, The Rum Story, Muncaster Castle, Oddfellows - St Bees, Indigo Indian - Cockermouth, Metier - Whitehaven, Westminster Café - Whitehaven, Yankees - Workington, Jamie Reed, MP, C Mason, Jennings Brewery, Plaza Cinema and various prizes donated by Tanzanian Link members, family and friends.

A great night was had by all. 

By Tamzin McCartney

Member of the Cumbria Rungwe Community Link 2009/10

Tanzanian Link Race Night! - Saturday, 15 May 2010

Hi everyone!
The Tanzanian Link is hosting a Charity Race Night at the Whitehaven Rugby League Clubhouse, Saturday 15th May 7:00pm, first race 7:30pm. 
Entertainment by Adam Amor, Tom Salmon and Emma Dockray
£2 Admission includes 1 free bet.
All proceeds go to Tanzania Project July 2010 undertaken by local student volunteers.
Come along :)

Check out the Facebook Event

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Chain-Gang Brick Action at Gillerthwaite

Prep Weekend - Group Work & Tanzania Planning

Saturday started with some good old fashioned hard work. With the help of John, one of the founders of the Low Gillerthwaite Field Center we managed to build a 'Bug Boutique' from scratch. You may find yourself asking, what is a 'Bug Boutique'? Well, it's basically a bug hotel. Around a ton of bricks were chain-ganged up a big hill to build the frame, which was then separated into different levels with various types of habitat for various types of bugs, nicely finished off with a sign skillfully crafted by Tamzin. While this was going on a few of us got to grips with sawing logs for the fire; people never believe you when you tell them the key to using a hand saw is not to try, but to just move the blade. It's like using the force...

After a well earned lunch of cheese sandwiches lovingly prepared by Baba Dons cook team we got back to it. This time 'it' was something a little less like hard work. The group had a drama, music and language session followed by a lesson planning session. When out in Tanzania we hope to show the Tanzanian students how our schools work and the different types of learning and teaching we have in the UK. The aim of the session was to prepare a 5 minute starter which would get a Tanzanian class warmed up and ready to learn all about what the teachers have in store for the lesson. My group focused on Science experiments which can be carried out using only materials found in rural Tanzania. We came up with exploring density by trying to float boiled and un-boiled eggs, but disaster struck when the egg cracked as we boiled it.

The evening led onto more lesson planning and the group contract, which lines out how everyone is expected behave and what responsibilities we all have while out in Tanzania. At the sandy eyed hour of 10pm we finished talking about serious stuff and had time for a bit more music, some games and a good old chat.

On Sunday morning, we finalised the group contact and had a mega clean up of the center. In 45 minutes we managed to mop with 5 mops, brush with over 6 brushes and scrub with countless scrubbers until the place was cleaner than we found it. We then had the review session and I think everyone agreed that we all had an amazing weekend and got to know each other a little better than we already did!

TANZANIA HERE WE COME

Ashley

Prep Weekend - Friday Night Arrival at Gillerthwaite

After a very, very, very bumpy journey along the lakeside, we all arrived at the Gillerthwaite field center. The evening started with everybody settling into the place and within 5 minutes the lads turning their room into an absolute stye, so basically they felt right at home. Before we started the evenings activities we had a michelin star quality meal prepared by Ben, Georgina and Fiona. With team testosterone reunited we started to do Charlotte's icebreaker/health and safety exercises which included playing rock, paper, scissors as lowly tomatoes and regal pineapples. The evening then turned a tad more serious as don gave his all important health and safety speech. Afterwards the evening ended with EVERYBODY in the room of team testosterone eating too many sweets and listening to music.

By Dan