This is my first post of my first ever blog. How exciting. Debra and I are about to become volunteer teacher trainers with CUSO-VSO. On October 1st we should be flying, to paraphrase an old jazz ballad, over the oceans on a silver plane to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. After an in-country training course and some lessons in survival Swahili we will make our way by public bus to our posting in Kiteto. You may not be able to find Kiteto on a map. It’s in central Tanzania a few hours away by bus from Dodoma, the capital city.
CUSO-VSO is a non-profit, international development agency that works through volunteers. For fifty years CUSO-VSO has sent over 15,000 skilled volunteers, rather than aid money, to more than 40 developing countries. We will be working and living in the heart of Kiteto, teaching side by side with co-workers in the Community Education Resource Centre (CERC). We will be living a similar lifestyle to them.
I aim to share my teaching skills with Tanzanian teachers who are committed to building better futures for their students. I hope to learn as much as I teach and I hope you will follow my postings on this blog.
Peter
What an adventure Peter and Debra! Good for you!
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