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Jan Hansen
June 3rd’s GALA was amazing as the ETI board and family celebrated the milestones of the past and cast vision for Opportunity Centers in Karagwe. ETI is building on its successes and broadening its partneships to bring opportunity to rural communities in Tanzania. Silent & Live Auctions Brought in Record-Setting Funds WELCOME Jan Hansen (President,…
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Join Educate Tanzania Inc for the June 3rd Gala! ETI will host its 6th annual dinner and fundraiser at Hazeltine National Golf Club on June 3rd. Great food, friends, a silent and live auction and of course, a wonderful program highlighting some key folks in ETI. The Silent Auction includes choice cigars, lovely wines,…
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One of the highlights of the Karagwe 2016 trip was to see provisions that KAD made for water since our last visit: The borehole and the water harvesting system. The only thing that would have made it better would have been if Team 2015 (Christopher Jones of Inventoris and John Wade of MSAADA) could have…
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Some of you joined us on the ETI Travel Blog as we headed to Karagwe, Tanzania this past two weeks. Our team is now 5 hours from heading home and 30 hours from being home. The trip, as usual, was eventful, rich, productive and downright fun. We were ‘gone’ January 21 – 31 and traveled…
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We’re off! The ‘two from Minnesota’ are headed to Karagwe. Bags checked, playlists loaded, and farewells made. And don’t forget the chapstick. We begin the lengthy trip that always unfolds in predictable and unexpected ways. We tend to meet good-hearted folks on the plane: some who work in Europe or beyond; others visiting family or…
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Join us virtually – as Educate Tanzania and the University of Minnesota head to Karagwe, Tanzania January 21 – 31, 2016. Click here to come along via our TravelBlog. Jan Hansen (ETI) and Chris Johnstone (of UMN) will do their best to blog and keep the ETI family informed of the latest adventures en route…
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______________________________________________________________________________________ Educate Tanzania spends over 90% of funds on its programs in Tanzania. We are a 100% volunteer-based organization with dedicated partners focused on doing the most good with what resources are available. You can be part of it. Please click donate on this website OR download the form, complete it and return to the…
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ETI and its partners have plans to open KARUCO next October and build opportunity in rural Karagwe. You can help make that happen. Amazonsmile Sign up for amazonsmile (it’s free and painless), and then claim “Educate Tanzania, Inc” (ETI) as your charity. When you do that, 5% of each qualified purchase through Amazonsmile will be…
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Give to the Max Day donation total = $7,735. Donations will be used to complete the water systems that will enable KARUCO to open in 2016. So what is it like to be an ETI Donor? Why do they give? Here is what they say: “I want what I can give to go to the best program I…
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