Day 20 - Banquet for Sponsored Students

Today Agape Lodge hosted 17 students sponsored by various Canadians to attend private school in the Mwanza area. These students have been carefully selected, coming from poorer families but willing to work hard to succeed. Their progress is closely monitored and feedback is given regularly to their sponsors. The ages ranged from Kindergarten to Form II-secondary school. Many of them declared they wanted to be a doctor when they grew up, but we also heard of plans to be a teacher, engineer, farmer, and soldier.
Once here, the children had the opportunity to write to their sponsors and I took a current photograph of each student. We were then well fed by the ladies here at the lodge. Many of the children enjoyed looking at the many photographs I had taken since being in Tanzania. They also had questions about winter in Canada. With the use of my mini-iPad, we tried a few games of 'Charades'. I also taught a few of the older students how to play X's and O's.
Below are some group photos from the day:

Just because . . . A picture of a mousebird outside my window.