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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 a

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

TODAY – JANUARY 30, 2019 – is the day we’ve been waiting for since ETI’s inception in 2010 and even before! Today was the day that the the first class at KARUCO transformed from HOPE into a real-life, flesh and blood group of 18 young people with hopes and dreams. Let me i

Karagwe is nine hours ahead of Minnesota so we’re headed to dinner and closing in on the end of the day while many readers are just getting started. ETI is always treated very well at the Karagwe Hotel. Below are photos of Manager Accurate and friends, Rebecca and Genegeva. We look fo

Welcome to the Women’s Opportunity Center in Kayonza, Rwanda. I am so thankful for this absolutely amazing day. It started with breakfast in Kigali at the Five to Five, proceeded to the Women’s Opportunity Center in Kayonzo, trekked 6 hours to Kayanga across the Rwanda/Tanzania border

KARAGWE 2019  #2B KARAGWE TRIP TO REFINE DESIGN PLANS FOR RURAL OPPPORTUNITY CENTERS January 27. ETI is enroute to Karagwe for the Karagwe 2019 Summit. Visit this blog to hear and see the latest from ETI. I (Jan) arrived in Amsterdam early today, met up with Bruce Engel at the gate at

KARAGWE 2019  #2 KARAGWE TRIP TO REFINE DESIGN PLANS FOR RURAL OPPPORTUNITY CENTERS January 27. ETI is enroute to Karagwe for the Karagwe 2019 Summit. Visit this blog to hear and see the latest from ETI. I (Jan) arrived in Amsterdam early Sunday morning after a smooth flight from Minn

KARAGWE 2019   KARAGWE TRIP TO REFINE DESIGN PLANS FOR RURAL OPPPORTUNITY CENTERS January 26. ETI heads to Karagwe for the Karagwe 2019 Summit. Visit this blog to hear and see the latest from ETI. Jan’s flight leaves this afternoon, arrives in Amsterdam Sunday morning where she

KARAGWE 2019   KARAGWE TRIP TO REFINE DESIGN PLANS FOR RURAL OPPPORTUNITY CENTERS Jan Hansen (ETI) and Bruce Engel (Architect) head to Karagwe on January 26 to attend the ETI/KAD Summit and to forward the design phase of the Rural Opportunity Centers (ROCs) in Tanzania. Bruce has comp

ETI HEADS TO TANZANIA “Can’t wait!” said Bruce Engel, Architect, as he anticipates the visit to Karagwe with ETI. We depart January 26. Follow us on our blog, Facebook or Twitter as we chat with KARUCO students as well as share and refine plans for the Rural Opportun