At the end of September 2026 the first GLOBAL HELP mission left for Tanzania. 15 women, one primary school near Moshi, and 13 days of real work. We named the group Imani, “faith” in Swahili.
This was not a school tour. The mornings belonged to the school: paint, brushes, soil and pupils. The afternoons and weekends belonged to Tanzania.
What we did at the school
The work list was built in advance together with the school management. We did not arrive with a plan of our own; we came to work alongside the local staff on what they asked for.
- We renovated and painted classrooms inside and out, including repainting the blackboards.
- We set up a library and a play corner: shelves, books and a painted wall with the words “one book, one pen, one teacher” in Swahili.
- We painted murals in the classrooms: a baobab tree, a giraffe, a Maasai shield and a Disney corner for the kindergarten children.
- We built the Imani Garden: raised beds made of tires and stones, with vegetable seedlings to enrich the children’s school meals and signs in Swahili.
- We repaired and sanded desks and benches that had been standing broken in the storeroom.
- We ran a sports and games day with the pupils.
What we did outside the school
Between the work days we got to know Tanzania from the inside. We visited a Maasai village, danced and talked with the women of the village. On another day we ground coffee beans ourselves at a local farm and looked out over the green landscape all the way to the mountains. In the evenings we sat in a circle, talked about what we had been through that day, and got to know one another.
The last-day ceremony
On the last day the school staff held a closing ceremony for us, and every volunteer received a certificate of appreciation. The next mission will continue from where we stopped.
What one of the volunteers said
“I had no idea what to expect, and I certainly did not imagine how much I would receive in return on a journey I set out on in order to give. The experience exceeded all my expectations, largely thanks to the organization and to Tali’s care. I discovered a kind of volunteering that I definitely want to do again.”
– Member of the Imani mission to Tanzania
The mission was led by Tali, together with the mission nurse, Milena, who accompanied the group all the way.
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