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| March, 2007 | |
| Nyakato news : "This year we managed to get 40 students to Form Five (accepted at other schools)...The areas supported by TEAA have taken more students to Form Five." - William Mashimba, teacher and TEAA representative, Nyakato HS, Bukoba, Tanzania | |
| Peerless leaders: Sa Majeste El Hadj Naaba Kiiba, Roi du Yatenga, the 49th king of the Mossi in Burkina Faso, shown (left) with Brooks Goddard, TEAA leader, who also visited schools (right). | |
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| Old math in Africa was the topic of a recent conference on the bones of Ishango, found a half-century ago in what is now D.R.Congo. These 20,000-year-old objects may be the earliest evidence of numerical notation. plus | |
| February, 2007 | |
13 East African schools welcomed TEAA-ers Ed
Schmidt and Henry Hamburger during a journey around
Lake Victoria. Many of the schools have received TEAA assistance.
Great
progress
and a warm welcome awaited at A.C.Butonge in Bungoma Kenya.
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Foundation of education is laid down by mason's son Ed Schmidt during a TEAA visit to St. Joseph's, Gunga. (Photo at left, below) Better building with better bricks, and cheaper too, since the major component is the very clayey soil dug up to make the foundation. Just add cement and bake and you have another innovation at MacKay in Kampala, Uganda. (Photo at right, below) Please also note the water-catchment provision. | |
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Laptop handover: At a hotel in Mwanza, the Chicago of Tanzania, a TEAA visitor passes a symbolic laptop to Sylvester Cameo, the computer teacher at Bwiru Girls. Also in front is Jiganza Massaba who plays the same role at Bwiru Boys. | |
| Free secondary education is becoming a reality at 1,000 schools in Uganda, but participating schools will receive only partial funding for the students they must serve. | |
| January, 2007 | |
New principal at St. Joseph's in Gunga, overlooking Lake
Victoria in southwest Kenya, is our former teacher liaison at
Mukuyu HS, Okunya Milton. This voltmeter arrived by the time of
the February TEAA visit. He writes:
"We have been experiencing a rather erratic power supply at this end despite the heavy rains and the only cyber cafe in town has been most of the time out of use... We are in the process of procuring the equipment. I am indeed very grateful and now hope to acquire the first set of science equipment for this school." | |
Ship coming in: "The long awaited container of our computers is arriving at last !!!!!!! It will reach Dar es Salaam port today on Monday 8th January. We hope to clear the container on the 15th," (now the 17th) writes the person shepherding computers through the port for three TEAA schools in Tanzania. (The Stena Piper in the photo is not our freighter.) | |
| Tanzania lights up: After months of severe restriction, Tanzania power is back. more This means that the Internet facility at Bwiru Boys, founded and funded by Frank Mitchell, will be back in service shortly. A month ago, the World Bank reported that the cutbacks were costing up to a million dollars a day. more | |
| Strange weather and improving economic stability are reported for Tanzania by Kay Mongardi, just back from Arusha where her son teaches. | |
6.5 million cell phones in Kenya outnumber landlines 20 to 1. Soon they will be transfering money via "M-Pesa." Note the first menu item in the photo. | |
Black rhinos in Kenya numbered 539 at the close of 2005,
up
from 428 in two years, but
down
from 3,100 just 5 years ago, 10,000 in the early 80s and 65,000 by
original estimate. Together with those in Zimbabwe, Namibia and
South Africa and a scattering elsewhere in Africa, there are about
3,600 black rhinos on
earth.
Two subspecies have recently been declared extinct. For every
black rhino there are three white rhinos and almost 2,000,000 (two
million) humans.
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