It took me some time to sit down and look at my photos again, hence the delay on our blog. It brings back emotions from every direction. Since my return a day has not gone by that I have not thought of my friends in Tanzania. I continue to wonder about how to help, what we can do here, how I can help bring them clean water - which I think is a human right. I continue to struggle with the luxuries we have, that I give my girls, or myself. Ballet class, trips to the Dells, going to the beach to play in the sand, pedicures, massages, vacations...the list goes on and on! I still do it, which in-turn brings up another heaping amount of emotions.
My first day back I was excited to spend some time with Marc and the girls even if my body was telling me I needed to sleep. I prepared the girls bath and Ana said "lots of bubbles and water mommy". My eyes filled with tears - how lucky is she....the little girls I met, hugged and wanted to help would never have a bath like that and would never see clean water they could drink come pouring out of a tap. Marc ordered my favourite pizza and sushi - which I loved but I thought back to the kids at the school who don't eat or if they do it's rice on a good day.
Marc and I have had several discussions since my return, how to find a balance - like he said we aren't going to stop bathing, that isn't going to help anyone! ;-)
I am going to continue to help support CPAR - my hope is RETSD and my school KEC will be supportive with continuing this tradition of funding the material for another community to build rain-water harvesting tanks. I am going to teach my girls, family and friends what I have learnt and encourage them to support this cause - a cause I saw first hand help not just 1 family but a community.
A huge thank you to all our friends and family who supported Tanzania 2013 - you truly have changed the life of a community!
An experience of a lifetime that will continue to pull on so many emotions for the rest of my life - I am thankful for that!
Hope you enjoy my journey. I suggest you click on the first one so the photos are enlarged and view by clicking on the forward arrow. You can later go back to read the captions I wrote under some of the photos. In my opinion a photo is worth a 1000 words.
xo
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