Health & Fitness
Members of Darien's Youth Group Global Girls & Guys Unite Travel to Tanzania!
Earlier this summer members from the youth group Global Girls & Guys Unite - a global service & education club at both Middlesex and DHS - traveled with Unite The World With Africa to Tanzania to serve, share and discover. SEE THEM IN ACTION HERE! The students spent this past school year connecting with, learning about and raising funds for their peers in East Africa. This two-week service tour combined field visits to 10 of Unite's partner non-profit organizations with a few days of traditional wildlife safari in both the Ngorongoro Crater (the 8th Wonder of the world) and the Serengeti National Park (home of the Great Migration).
Highlights of the tour include visits with:
* The Matonyok Family Trust Orphanage for whom GGU raised the funds to build a chicken coup and purchase 200 chicks; new beds and mattresses, sheets, pillows and blankets; solar lamps; shoes; and more. SEE THE VIDEO HERE: GGU AT MATONYOK.
* The Tumaini Junior School where GGU sponsors the education of a young girl Catherine Pascali.
* The Plaster House, a pediatric orthopedic rehab center for children in Arusha.
* The Hadza, the last living hunter-gatherer people in East Africa, for whom GGU has been working with Tanzanian Nurse Ruth Matiyas to provide essential medical & food relief.
* The Red Sweater Project, a secondary school in Mungere Village that provides a high-quality affordable education to the Maasai, where GGU built a sports playing field.
* A private drumming circle with Umoja Arts - teaching our children African dumming, dance and song. Unite will bring Umoja Arts camps to the US next summer, 2014. Interested? Email anne@unitetnz.org.
* Moyo International's Mkombozi, a vocational center in Moshi, Tanzania, for whom GGU had raised the funds to launch a soap making business empowering young school drop outs to earn a living.
Our GGU students will be posting photos and stories about their experience so please stay tuned!!!
For more information about Global Girls & Guys Unite (GGU) and how your middle- or high- school age child can get involved, please email GGU Director Simone Quinn at smquinn5@gmail.com or Unite Founder Anne Wells at unitetnz.org.
