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Education that goes two ways

By Ros Green, manager of Just Learning in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. I first became interested in the plight of the Tanzanian people when my husband went out for two months in 2002 to do water harvesting for Youth with a Mission in Morogoro. The charity has an eight-acre site there that is designed to reach out to the local tribes and villages. On hearing about its efforts to start a pre-school, I decided this was something Just Learning could be involved with. The directors agreed and gave 1,000 for playground and classroom equipment.

I first became interested in the plight of the Tanzanian people when my husband went out for two months in 2002 to do water harvesting for Youth with a Mission in Morogoro. The charity has an eight-acre site there that is designed to reach out to the local tribes and villages. On hearing about its efforts to start a pre-school, I decided this was something Just Learning could be involved with. The directors agreed and gave 1,000 for playground and classroom equipment.

At Just Learning's bi-annual conference the consensus by nursery managers throughout the UK was that here was an opportunity offering much in the way of resources and learning to children and adults on both continents.

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