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Jan Hansen
TEN BUILDINGS at KARUCO! There are 10 buildings at KARUCO, 7 constructed completely and 3 in progress. ETI salutes its partners, Karagwe Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania (ELCT) on its transparent and frugal use of funds to build such sturdy buildings on this gorgeous 1,000 acre site. Our architect partners, MSAADA…
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Educate Tanzania has known ETI Partner, Sarah Cohn since before ETI was born. As an Evaluation and Research Manager at the Science Museum of Minnesota, Sarah was hired by the University of St. Thomas during Jan’s first year as co-founder of the Center for Engineering Education at UST. Sarah did such a great job that when she…
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KARUCO’s Water and Energy Team is back at it in their respective home countries. John Wade (MSAADA Architects) is back in Mwanza busy with other projects in Tanzania as well as moving the KARUCO project ahead; Albin Mathias (Powering Potential) is back home (near Arusha) and Christopher Jones (Inventoris) and Jan Hansen (ETI) are back…
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TRAVEL BLOG 2015 : 1 On January 23, the ETI Travel Team ’15 will be in the air headed to Amsterdam, then Kampala, Uganda, then Kayanga, Tanzania. Our team of four is excited to carry out the program goals of: 1. Assessing needs and resources for water, and ‘fit’ for scalable system technologies; 2. Assessing…
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Project for Awesome – Educate Tanzania From her passion, zeal and impelling words to her ”weird hair flip” (@1:33 – don’t miss it!) Rachel Vipond really hit the mark with her creative piece to promote Educate Tanzania. Rachel introduced the ETI Board to Project for Awesome or “P4A”, which is a community-driven charitable movement on…
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Mucho thanks to Media Intern, Rachel Vipond at Iowa State who put her heart out there for ETI. Check out her video and then BE SURE to vote for Rachel’s vid. Voting is the whole point. Unless of course you are into Rachel’s “hair flip”. So please help us create some froth for ETI –…
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MEET LORI DUZAN. Having known ETI co-founders, Jan & Steve Hansen for over a decade, she jumped on board in 2010 during the formation of Educate Tanzania. Little did she know the ride she was about to embark. Lori signed on for a one-year stint as ETI’s secretary, and after four years, somehow still finds…
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Our supporters are the best! And for End of Year Giving – you can take advantage of our Matching Grant from the Oswald Family Foundation. It’s really simple. Every donation through Dec 31st – up to $10,000 – will be doubled. So click donate and help ETI bring Internet to KARUCO. You can make a…
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Check out Educate Tanzania’s new “Window to the World” – ETI Website 2.0. This new look was brought to you by Eric Johnson, owner of HardlyNeutral Consulting and his associates. Eric spent loads of time this past year interviewing ETI board and officers on what was wanted in a new website, then volunteering and donating his professional…
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Why Establish a University in Karagwe? KARUCO – Karagwe University College The aim of establishing KARUCO is to prepare young people from Tanzania to build entrepreneurial Agri-business committed to sustainability and social justice – – That will bring social and economic transformation to Karagwe and surrounding areas. Why Entrepreneurial Agri-business? Agriculture is the backbone of the Tanzanian economy. More…
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