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  • Welcome Community Market 28 March

    Welcome Community Market 28 March

    Happening this weekend! Visit the community market at Isamilo International School (9am until 3pm) for nice drinks, food, crafts and arts! We have prepared a fun creative activity for the kids, so bring them along! (we will only be there on the Saturday). Welcome all, karibuni! Isn’t it cute? Come and make your own Easter-chick-in-egg..!

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  • A bright (yellow) step forward!

    A bright (yellow) step forward!

    Things are starting to come together at the Work&Shop! We’ve started painting the building, and the outside is now turning into a beautiful, bright yellow. It already feels so different — warmer, more alive! It’s amazing what a bit of color can do! Step by step, the space is transforming from a construction site into

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  • Celebrating Women’s strength and creativity

    Celebrating Women’s strength and creativity

    On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the strength and creativity of women in our community. At our Work&Shop Creative Center, we are working hard to establish an innovative sewing space where women can rent sewing machines and sell handmade clothing, bags, and other beautiful products. We are committed to inclusion and will actively seek ways

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  • Children helping children – across the world

    Children helping children – across the world

    Thanks to the generosity of students from EMBSAY Primary School (UK) and Kinabalu International School (Sabah, Malaysia), the Work&Shop made beautiful school bags and donated these to 112 students at Kilimo Primary School in Mwanza! Bags included notebooks and pencils. The funds were raised through a non-uniform day in the UK and a cake sale

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  • We wish you a Happy & Creative 2026

    We wish you a Happy & Creative 2026

    The Work&Shop team wishes you a happy, healthy, joyful, and creative New Year! This year is especially meaningful for us, as we will be opening our community workplace! Work&Shop is an innovative workplace equipped with essential tools and machinery for carpentry, sewing, welding, and other (hand)crafts. In addition, we will offer practical entrepreneurship training and

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  • Entering the final stage of construction

    Entering the final stage of construction

    After a period of fundraising and careful planning, we are ready to continue building once again! We have entered the final phase of construction, which includes finishing work such as skimming and painting the interior and exterior walls, installing zinc boards, tiling the shop area, fitting large shop windows, and placing toilets, sinks, and wooden

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  • A small act with a big impact – Thank you Mona!

    A small act with a big impact – Thank you Mona!

    After the difficult days around the presidential elections in Tanzania, many privately owned businesses were damaged — for many, rebuilding was simply not an option. Mona is only 5 years old, yet she chose to take action. When she saw what had happened, she started a GoFundMe page to help her family friend Dalmas and

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  • Join us in congratulating Elizabeth

    Join us in congratulating Elizabeth

    Exactly two years ago, we began our fundraising efforts for the Work&Shop, including a budget to support Elizabeth’s education and prepare her for her new role as Finance & Operations Assistant. Thanks to the generosity of our donors and Elizabeth’s perseverance, she has now graduated! Join us in congratulating her on this wonderful achievement –

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  • Elections in Tanzania: join us in prayer

    Elections in Tanzania: join us in prayer

    We are in the week of elections in Tanzania. We pray for Justice, nonviolence, peace and healing of our Nation. Join us in prayer. Amen. PRAYER    “What is nonviolence?”   Voice 1: What is nonviolence?   Voice 2: It is a strategy for social change that rejects violence.   Voice 3: It is a philosophy of active peacemaking.  

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  • Welcome! 29th of November  ‘Christmas’ market

    Welcome! 29th of November ‘Christmas’ market

    Welcome on the 29th of this month at Isamilo International School for some nice Christmas holiday shopping and a warm ‘get together’ with friends, families, and our communities. For the kids we have prepared a fun activity to do: making these beautiful Christmas tree ornaments of colored paper. Suitable for all ages and there will

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