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Workcamps 2010Event
DescriptionCONFIRMEDAn international group of volunteers are working one month per year for the Elu Children Care School in Morogoro, Tanzania. Erasto Luanda founded this school 1997 with the philosophy to create a human education for individuals with special values. We help to build up a big hall for the 350 children at ELU. This year we will finish the building.The preparations for the next workcamp are going on. It is still open for new people who want to join! CooperationThe next Workcamp will be a cooperation between the project partner in Morogoro the Elu Children Care - Nursey and Primary School, the Kenyan organization IYAP - Isiolo Youth Against Aids & Poverty, the German youth organization Steinschleuder e.V. and the international network IDEM. From 2004-2006 the young people from Steinschleuder e.V. engaged in Morogoro for Elu and built a Sleeping Room for the children. The youth from IDEM and IYAP are working toghter with the teachers of the Elu Children Care School and local workers since 2007 on a new dining room incl. kitchen for the 350 children of the school.
Workcamp costs:  Food, Accomotation and Transport in Tanzania: 300 EURO Flight: about 800 EURO Visa: 50 EURO Deadline to apply: Fabruary 15, 2010 (after deadline on request) To apply please click the button Apply Now on the top of this page Preparation Meetings: 1. Meeting, February 12, - 14, 2010 near Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2. Meeting, Mai 07, - 09, 2010 in Munich, Germany 3. Meeting in July 2010, exact date and place not yet known Arrival time: Sunday, 8th of August at 16:00 o'clock (local time) at the international Airport of Dar es Salaam The Workcamp will end on 31st August 2009 (departure date) Contact: If you need more information or if you have any questions and also to register for the preparation meetings please contact us by email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Downloads: ELU-Buildingprocess 07-09 images / Donation Flyer / Info Booklet Workcamp 2010 Workcamp Film here Aim of the WorkcampOur task is to continue with the kitchen and Dining Room begun in April 2007 for the 350 children, a number of whom live on the school property on a permanent basis. The present room accommodates only 50 children, and could be put to much better use for other purposes. During the three Workcamps and the time between the camps young people from all over the world worked together with the teachers of the school and with local workers and built the foundation, produced the reinforcement, fixed the pillar, mixed a lot of concrete and build the wall up to a high level. Local people finished the wall up to the roof height and started already with build the roof of the building. Our task of next Workcamp will be to finish the building. We have to pave and paint the walls inside and outside of the building and finishing the door and the windows. Another important aim is the culture exchange in general.ProgrammThe teachers of the school will be working with us for part of the camp and this means that, no doubt, there will also be other people taking part who are in some way connected with the school. It promises to offer many opportunities to really get to know the local people working side by side. The whole event should be a lot of fun. Besides the work, there will be excursions planned for the weekends in the surrounding area and the Mikumi national park. We are also planning to have a party (a children day) together with the children from Elu and an action day to do something tougher with the local people from Morogoro during the work camp. We will stay in a simple house a little outside of the town, cook our own food. For the last few days we will relax on the on the beach nearby Dar es Salaam and enjoy the Indian ocean... Connection to the ProjectWe have been working with this project for a number of years now, and Erasto Luanda, the founder of the school, attended conferences in Switzerland and was also at the Connecitivity conference in Brazil. 3 IDEM-workcamps have taken place there and we intend to go on trying to support this effort into the future.
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DescriptionThe Elu Children Care School
So he began to teach a small group of children in rented accommodation in the town of Morogoro, an initiative that found support from an older friend and led to the building of a school that today has a kindergarten and 8 classes with 350 children. Class sizes are 25 children per class, medium of instruction is English and the children are taught in a caring environment. There are many children from poor circumstances, including several orphans in each class, but the school has moved from strength to strength and today enjoys government recognition. However, all development still has to be financed privately, and as the school is now tying to build a high school, this is a costly undertaking and needs a great deal of support. The Elu Children Care also known by the names of ECC and ELUCCA is a Non-Government and Non Profit institution that was founded on February 6, 1997 and officially registered by Tanzania Government on June 20, 2003 with Reg. No. MG.01/7/005. It is an institution that is dedicated to promoting personal and social development. Registered Users:
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The ECC was founded by Erasto Luanda, a native Tanzanian who studied philosophy and community development in Ireland and Nairobi. In the course of that time, he worked with street children and was able to establish a warm relationship with them that led him to question the whole educational system in his own country. He realised that few children had the opportunity to really develop their potential in classes with 50 - 100 children, taught in Swahili throughout the primary school and then exclusively in English in high school.