Enjoying Saba Saba Day!
24th July 2015
Saba Saba Day, 7th. July, is a public holiday in Tanzania. It celebrates the founding in 1954 of the political party, TANU, the Tanganyika African National Union. Like schools and businesses throughout Tanzania, Arise School was closed for the day. Tamsin, one of our three volunteers at the school, sent us the account below of […]
The Road to Independence
17th July 2015
All donations and sponsorship money received through ACE go directly to Arise School. The charity also supports several older young people to continue their education at a higher level where they would not otherwise have the opportunity to do so. The young people concerned are all either orphaned and without any family support or from […]
Rose Queen Chooses ACE as her charity!
10th July 2015
St. Nicholas Church, Sutton, is one of the few churches in the St. Helens area that still has a Rose Queen. This originated from the walking day, a local tradition in parts of North West England. The coronation ceremony takes place in June each year after much preparation by the Rose Queen and her family […]
Enjoying a cuddle – and a lollipop!
5th July 2015
Emily, one of our volunteers writes: “I met this little lady today at Kisimani Kids Club that runs every Saturday in the school for all the children in the community. She is so tiny still so not old enough to go to school and spent most of Kisimani Kids Club joining in the games via […]
Some First Impressions of Arise School by Beth Robertson
3rd July 2015
We received this week’s blog, via WhatsApp, from Beth Robertson, one of the three volunteers from Newcastle University who arrived at Arise School on 22nd June for a two month stay. Beth’s impressions and sentiments are echoed by her fellow volunteers, Tamsin and Emily. Beth writes: “This week we began our volunteering experience through ACE […]
Cronton Children learn about Tanzania!
26th June 2015
Following a presentation on the work of ACE earlier this year, last week, pupils of Cronton C.E. Primary School held a Tanzania Learning Week. The children learned all about Tanzania – it’s culture, geography and lifestyle. They also learned how very different school and life in general are for children growing up in Tanzania […]
ACE Highlights of the Year!
19th June 2015
ACE held its first AGM on the 2nd June. Next month will mark 12 months since the charity was registered by the Charity Commission. It has certainly been a very full and busy year. It has also been a very satisfying one in respect of both our development as a charity and progress at Arise […]
The Community working for the Community
12th June 2015
When we were last at Arise School in February, Frank told us that he had been offered some donations of sand, cement and building materials by local businesses to start building a fourth classroom. In addition, members of the community were offering their time and labour free to start building it. We recently received some […]
My Tanzanian Experience – Part two
5th June 2015
Last week, Pauline Brown, Volunteer Coordinator for Kilimanjaro Community Support Project, wrote about her “Tanzanian Experience”. This week, Pauline tells us about some of the personal initiatives she took whilst in Tanzania last year. MY PERSONAL PROJECTS As I have been a volunteer and a Co-ordinator in Tanzania for many years, I know before I […]
MY TANZANIAN EXPERIENCE – by Pauline Brown, Volunteer Co-ordinator, KiCS
29th May 2015
As the Volunteer Co-ordinator for KiCS (Kilimanjaro Community Support Project), a Leeds based NGO linked with Leeds University, I went out to Tanzania with a group of Medical Volunteers in the summer of 2014. The medical volunteers work in the Hospitals in Moshi every day as part of their 4th year medical elective. It is […]
