Apologies if you've had problems finding our main website lately - it's been down for some time but we will get it back up as soon as possible. In the meantime, we're going to resurrect this blog to keep you up-to-date, and hopefully put a widget into the new website (when it appears) so news from this blog appears there too.
In the meantime, there is a page for Hoja on COCO's website, which can be found here. Feel free to direct anyone there.
Hoja is looking very exciting these days. Yesterday we held a volunteers' meeting at Julia's house in London, attended by around 15 people, to discuss progress and future plans.
Lucy from COCO was there, to tell us about her recent visit to Tanga ward, and showed us what she'd seen and how she thinks the project is going, which seems to be around 95% positive (Lucy has corrected me to 100%!).
COCO have been kind enough to support the Hoja Project for some time now, and are taking on the Vocational Training Centre being built there, which is hugely appreciated, as it would be a massive project to be taken on by volunteers.
A number of us also gave accounts of our impressions and feelings when we have visited Tanga and Mpandangindo in the past, and it was reassuring to hear how positive everyone felt about the project.
Some of the day was also set aside for discussing fundraising and awareness raising ideas, and there certainly seemed to be a general feeling that we would like to put on some bigger events and get some smaller regular events going as well. Watch this space.
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