Jambo! My name is Mary Hill Brooks, and I am from Charlotte, NC. I graduated from Charlotte Country Day School last May, and am currently in the midst of a gap-year! Last semester, I travelled with a program called Thinking Beyond Borders to Thailand and India to study and work on development in the fields
It was a special day, a day of its own kind, when all TFFT scholars, their guardians and TFFT Staff came together for the first TFFT Family Day, on Saturday 13th December 2014. It was a day of celebration, celebrating the achievements our scholars have made in their academics and other skills they demonstrate after
As I talked about in the last blog, Full Circle is very busy with a new and exciting pilot project! Well, as promised, now you get to hear all about it! What started out as a quest to encourage teachers to incorporate life skills in their teaching, has turned in a much large project than
Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, and now ... Giving Tuesday! Isn't it apropos that this sequence of events begins with giving thanks and ends with giving back? As we enter the holiday season, it’s time to celebrate the beauty of family! Families support and uplift each other out of love. This holiday
To witness TFFT's mission in action is to believe in TFFT's mission. While not everyone can hop on a plane to Tanzania, we desperately want you to SEE and UNDERSTAND the impact of which you are a part. And now—thanks to the brilliant talent of Tyler Wohlford with the Halle Project—we have the opportunity for
It is jacaranda season in Arusha! For those of you who don’t know, the jacaranda is a tree that blooms a beautiful shade of purple in October and November. It is my favorite time of year in Arusha because it reminds me of the trees changing from green to hues of orange and crimson during
Snippets of Outcomes or Impact: A bird’s (Hawk’s) eye view: Sometimes I imagine that I am an angel, watching over what is happening on earth and taking stock of the things I see. I hope that someday, in my rich imaginations, this oversight over mankind will provide reflections for the most vulnerable children. If
TFFT Scholars Richard Francis and Dickluck Ephrahim wrote this post on Edmund Rice School, where they are enrolled for A-Levels. As a reminder, the full explanation of how the Tanzanian school system works is over here, but the quick explanation is that A-Levels consists of Form 4 and Form 5, the last two years of
I will take you back to this Chinese proverb which says, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”. It is better to teach someone how to do something than to do it for them. Giving someone a fish
We recently had the opportunity to connect our partner, Star High School with the African Youth Leadership Experience (AYLE). AYLE, In collaboration with In Movement: Art for Social Change, hosted a 10-day camp in Kampala for students from 6 schools in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. The goal of the camp was to cultivate and sharpen