Today we went and visited our first school, Lemanyata primary school. We were welcomed as we pulled in by all of the children singing and holding welcome signs with our names on them. We went straight to serving them porridge made of milk, sugar, corn, and nuts. Seeing how happy the children were to receive this meal was eye opening to see how something so common for us is a gift for them.

Once we arrived at [Engorika] we were immediately welcomed with the warmest open hearts. The singing and jumping and smiles personally made me feel welcomed and just happy. We started with serving porridge and eventually ventured into serving rice and beans. As I was serving I truly recognized how much us being in Africa and at their school meant to them

When we first arrived [at Olkakola] we were greeted with a song in English that they had learned and lovely drawn posters that we hope to hang in the church. They performed a sort of line dance and the Masai performed as well. We were brought to one of the Masai chiefs home and were welcomed inside to look around and we got to tour around his beautiful garden. It was really cool to see the differences and similarities between the way people live at home and in Tanzania. I am honored to say I was one of the first people to be at the Olkakola school and cant wait to see what God has in store for the relationship between them and The Lunch Project in the future!