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Join us this Saturday! Fun Fish Craft at IISM Community Market
Do you love colors, yarn, and fun crafts? Come and join us for a creative workshop where we’ll be making these cute string art fish out of cardboard, yarn, and beads! As we are living in Mwanza… the city of fresh FISH…!! Let’s dive into creativity and make the lake come alive with our art
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African vibes in North Holland
We experienced a touch of Africa in Middenbeemster, a small village in North Holland, the Netherlands. At Susanne’s home parish, the annual outdoor Mass that opens a week of celebrations was held this time with vibrant “African vibes” — complete with drums and beautiful songs (including one in Swahili!). A dedicated group lovingly sewed more
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300 jars of blackberry jam sold – special for our cause!
During Susanne’s visit in the Netherlands, she got amazingly surprised; Remo & Regina – who are having a farm with lost of fruits – dedicated their time and efforts to sell over 300 jars of blackberry jam as a way to support our beautiful project! In total they raised an amount of 1200,- euro. We
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Which set do you choose? Let’s keep on building!
Our coordinator Susanne is travelling to her home country in a few days and a great mission will be to raise new funds for the final building phases! Can we count on your support? Read here her latest blog post with new updates and how you can support. https://www.beentjesintanzania.com/en/post/which-set-do-you-choose-construction-update-work-shop-creative-center-to-the-netherlands We keep in touch! Work&Shop team
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Promotional video on Dutch TV !
Our partner from the Netherlands ‘Wilde Ganzen’ has a special channel on NPO.nl where they promote all of their projects which are initiated by Dutch people and implemented with the local communities. This time, a special video about our Work&Shop Creative Center! For our Dutch followers (as the video is in Dutch) you can watch
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Visit us at this Saturday’s Community Market
Happening this Saturday 9am-12h30pm at Isamilo International school! Welcome to all kids for fun and creative activity; make your ‘frame of love’ special for Father’s Day (or for anyone else who is special in your life!). Cost is 3,000/= Tsh per child and 100% goes to our Work&Shop Creative Center. See you soon! Here some
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Before you even notice… the roof is placed!
The building process went smooth and last week they finished installing the roof. So much wood was needed and we had to add a few bundles of aluminium roofing sheets, but the result is there! We are very happy that we have reached this stage successfully with no major set backs. Check out below pictures!
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Start of phase 2: building the walls
So far so good! The building process continues smoothly and this week we have started building the walls. Now it starts to get real shape and so cool to walk through it and have a feel about the space. Some minor changes we have meet regarding location and size of doors and windows, just to
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The foundation is almost set, so many manpower is needed..!
Phase 1 of the building project is almost completed, namely the building of the foundation. So many strong manpower is needed to carry all those heavy materials like stones, cement, and sand. So grateful we feel for their given energy! In this post below you can see a short video which was made last Saturday
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The next Community Market is just around the corner 🙂
This Saturday (March 1st) join us for a fun kids activity of decorating wooden birds! See a cool picture below of two sample birds. Make sure you come on time as the market is from 9am to 12pm only at Isamilo International School. Cost is 5,000/Tsh per bird and 100% goes to the realization of
