Miwani for Mwanza: Swahili Class with Pastor Ben

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Swahili Class with Pastor Ben

Here is Pastor Ben during our Swahili class back on April 2nd. Ben is a Swahili man who now lives here in Kansas City with his family. What a joyful smile!

Ben is a pastor of a local church and has donated his time to our group on several occasions to tutor us in the Swahili language.

Jerod was very impressive in his conversation with Pastor Ben - and I think I have heard Jerod talk more in Swahili than English, as he is usually so quiet.

The class truly enjoyed the lesson. Ben has offered to join us one more time before we depart for Tanzania - and recommended he join us for a group dinner, a good setting to practice our Swahili in action.

More info to come later about the dinner/Swahili lession.

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Miwani for Mwanza Mission

In July 2009 the “Miwani for Mwanza” mission team from Atonement Lutheran Church traveled from Overland Park to Mwanza, Tanzania. “Miwani” is the Swahili word for eye glasses.

While in Tanzania the team worked with International Health Partners to begin the construction of an eye clinic at the Nyakato Health Center. The eye clinic is critically needed to serve over 200,000 people in the Southern Lake Victoria area.

Dennis and Paula Lofstrom and IHP-TZ oversee the Nyakato Health Clinic through the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania.

In June of 2012 another team from Atonement will travel to Mwanza with the goal to finish the eye clinic as well as to serve in various medical roles. Several members of the M4M team are Health Care Professionals and during the trip will be providing medical & eye exams, treatments and eye surgery for the people in that area of Tanzania.

$36,000.00 US is needed to to purchase the supplies to complete the Ahlrichs Eye Clinic, and $21,000 of that has been raised already through a Golf Benefit last fall and the "Spread Some Salt" Gala & Silent Auction this past March.

Your contributions toward the final $10,000 needed to complete the Eye Clinic are greatly apprieciated by the M4M teams, IHP-TZ and the people of Mwanza. Asante Sana!

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