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Jan Hansen

Karagwe 2024: BE Design Arrives

January 23, 2024

January 23, 2024 Last blog of the day (unless anything more happens). BE Design: Bruce Engel and his staff arrived tonight from Rwanda. We enjoyed dinner together on the balcony of Bishop’s home. We got to know a little bit from Bruce’s staff members – Yves and Emmanuel who evidently had some interesting and comedic…

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Karagwe 2024: Mel Breed Day Service

January 23, 2024

January 23, 2024 From Karagwe Diocese Media We thank our Heavenly Father for the life he granted you and the chance we lived together. Your humbleness and the heart of helping others will always be remembered. Sleep well our dear Mel. You will always live in our heart. Till we meet again 🙏 The service…

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Karagwe 2024: Mel Breed Day

January 22, 2024

January 23, 2024. Everyone loved Mel Breed. He was a kind and gentle man whose first reflex was always compassion. He was a social worker and a savvy businessman. He combined those two things and built an entrepreneurial business that provided wrap around services for special needs people who had fallen through the cracks. His…

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Karagwe 2024: Dawn of a New Day

January 22, 2024

Best sleep I’ve ever had in Karagwe. The familiar rooster call woke me around 6:45 and made me aware of the beautiful scene outside my room. 11:55PM – 2nd half of this blog post. To say this was a big day would be an understatement. Please forgive the format of this post which will be…

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Karagwe 2024: Say “Hello” to Karagwe!

January 21, 2024

January 21, 2024. This is the second blog post today. I signed off this morning at the 2 Friends Hotel heading out with our trusty driver, Mr. Zuwa who arrived at 9:00AM and did an excellent job getting me to Mutukula, having arrived about 3:00PM. We arrived in Karagwe about 5:00, headed to Bishop’s new…

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Karagwe 2024: Not a Small Thing

January 20, 2024

January 21, 2024. Reuniting with friends after four years is no small thing. Meet Patrick and Irene from the 2 Friends Hotel in Entebbe who have hosted the ETI teams for the past 7 years. It was exciting to see them again. In some ways, it was a downright relief. As you can probably tell…

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Arrived Entebbe, Uganda!

January 20, 2024

January 20, 2024. Yahoo! I could not be happier to be in Uganda – “The Pearl of Africa” and thrilled to be at the comfortable 2 Friends Hotel. The flights were happy ones also. KLM has always treated me well and this flight was exceptionally good. The flight staff were so kind to everyone and…

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Arrived Amsterdam. On to Entebbe.

January 20, 2024

January 20, 2024 This little beauty got all 281 passengers aboard to Amsterdam just as planned. Come with ETI next time and find out what LSG Sky Chefs deliver. 🙂 And we’re all at Schiphol in Amsterdam. Upon arrival, most of us headed to the self-transfer kiosks and on to various gates. The flight from…

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Can't wait to see our friends.

Karagwe 2024! Karagwe Revisited!

January 19, 2024

January 19, 2024. Karibu tene: Welcome again and again! These are the words I crave to hear – in person, face-to-face as I venture forth enroute to Karagwe, Tanzania. This is ETI’s first visit since 2020 when the EVS Solar Design team (MN) and BE Design (NY) participated in the ETI/KAD Summit. Since then, COVID…

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Heading to Karagwe – January 19

January 14, 2024

The ETI/KAD Summit in Karagwe (January 22 – 26) will be a welcome event on many levels.

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