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It’s no April Fool’s! The EARLY BIRD sign up ends on April 1. Don’t let your spring break distract you from saving $30/ticket for the ETI Building a Dream Gala on May 31st! Sign up before April 1 and save. Join us for great stories, entertaining program, outstanding meal and of course – awesome company.…
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Back by popular demand – it’s the ETI Gala 2019! Join us for Social Hour (6PM) followed by the Dinner and Program (7PM). You’ll get a great meal, program, entertaining updates and of course, an invite to be part of the story. With us will be Elgoodness Emmanuel, engineer from Karagwe and Bruce Engel, architect…
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Join us on May 31st for the ETI Gala: Building a Dream. Hear all about the students at KARUCO and the Rural Opportunity Centers. Sign up now for the EARLY BIRD ticket price! Join us!
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KARAGWE 2019 SUMMARY REPORT – ETI / KAD ANNUAL SUMMIT January 27 – Feb 3, 2019 Introduction I have been back for one week and am busy with follow up and TO DO items from the ETI/KAD Summit. The Karagwe 2019 Trip is well described as friendly, intense and productive. The two 8-hour flights, the…
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The flight from Kigali to Entebbe to Amsterdam went well. Now.. just one more flight and I am home. Arrived MSP. Home! What an amazing trip. So much accomplished; so much to look forward to. But I’m glad to be back in Minnesota in spite of the post-polar-vortex conditions. Thanks to Steve Hansen, I was…
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SAYING GOODBYE TO KARAGWE Bruce and I left Karagwe after settling up bills, emotional goodbyes and some last minute photos. Jan and Accurate, Karagwe Hotel Manager Bishop Bagonza took his personal time to accompany Bruce and I to Kigali. Bishop is a spiritual leader who is recognized globally as a national and community organizer; an advocate for…
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A DAY IN KARAGWE It has been an intense trip, full of connection, envisioning, planning, and refining. Our team is “on” all the time. Eight days “on” with a lengthy list of “To Do” items upon return brings us to a place of contentment with spark for the future. Our hope is to improve lives…
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The day started with a post from one of my sons who lives in St Paul. The timing of this ETI trip to Africa has rewards of all kinds. Elgoodness (engineer) and Dastin (driver) joined us for morning breakfast, then took Bruce on a mission to see traditional Tanzanian architecture and art. The excursion also…
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Another full and amazing day. Boiler Up! Our visits to Karagwe are always consuming. Leadership teams here make themselves available to the ETI team which makes our site visits very productive. This is a solid strength of our partnership with KAD. Our day started with the purchase of 80 “PICS Bags” from the Kayanga distributor,…
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