July 13 - Departure Day

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the Korogwe Project Blog! We will start out by using this platform to keep everyone updated as to what we are doing on the ground in Tanzania. To stay fully updated, click on the RSS Feed at the bottom of the page to receive updates as soon as we post them.

At 6pm EST, Sam Bonsey and I will be boarding Swiss Air Flight LX017 bound for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. We will arrive in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest port city, and hopefully be picked up by the Peacock Hotel staff.

From the airport, we will be taken to our hotel in the center of the city, where we will probably pass out after the 20hrs of travel (actually much less time than the 54hrs it would have taken from Seatac, according to several itineraries on kayak.com).

The following two days will be spent in Dar es Salaam, meeting with aid workers we know in the area and exploring the markets scattered around the city. Then the morning of the 17th we will leave for Korogwe, Tanzania, about 150 miles northwest of Dar es Salaam by bus. There we will be hosted by Canon Edward of the diocese of Tanga, and we will spend the next 50 days working with he and others in the community on improving their agricultural goods distribution system.

More updates to follow, hopefully every few days if not sooner.

Thank you to all who were involved in this project over the last few months and to those who are now supporting us with your prayers and encouragement. Please feel free to email Sam and I at any time during the next two months (Jesse.Uddenberg@thekorogweproject.com). We would love to hear from you!

Until the next time, many blessings,
Jesse Uddenberg