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I always learn that life changes according to difficulties which we face in our life. I am living with my mother after my father died. I was living peacefully with my mother, but times became hard when I want to start my Ordinary level study. When I was in form 4 my last year, I was returned back home because I had debts at school. My mother was not able to pay. My mother decided to do hard work to pay the school fee, which made her unwell. I will never forget this time. I was so proud and happy when my form 4 results came with good marks. After my Advanced studies, I will go to University and this will complete my dream. I wish become nutritional officer, and I will help other TSF students who need help like me. The happiest moment of my life is to know that I am getting all my basic needs met and can study with no difficulty.

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Carolina's Funding history

Year	Grade	Receipt	Status
2017	Form 6
2016	Form 5

Journal

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Carolina

Sat, February 22, 2020 at 12:25 pm GMT

Dear Indy,
How are you doing,how is life over there,I am glad that you are doing fine and I am fine too.
Iam happy I have seen your post
Iam doing well with my studies here thanks to God. I wish a grateful weekend.

Carolina.

Indy

Fri, February 22, 2019 at 1:00 am GMT

Hi School fund students

How are you? How is school?

I enjoy reading your journal. I would love to learn about your life. You can write back to tell me about your family, like how many brothers and sister do you have? Do you have good friends? What do you do with your friends? Do you like music? Do you like to sing or dance? Do you like sports? What makes you happy? What do you do when you are out of school? What do you do to help your families? See, I have so many questions. Please write back to tell me your stories.

Thank you and hope you have a new school year.

Regards,
Indy

Indy

Fri, October 26, 2018 at 5:48 pm GMT

Hi School Fund Students

Sorry it took me a while to write to you. For those of you who is receiving my journal the first time, let me introduce myself.

My name is Indy. I am currently living at the same town as Ms Judy. She and I went to high school together. I am so happy to have this opportunity to get to know you.

I used to work with computers for many many years. Do you like to use computers?

Yesterday I met with some of my old school friends for lunch. These are the friends I have for almost 50 years. We talked about our school days when we were 12 years old.
It brought many happy memories.

Do you enjoy your school? Now is the time to form good friendship with your classmates? What do you do with your classmates? Do you study together? Do you talk and share secrets? I know you have a lot of study to do. Hopefully you can find some time to do some fun stuff with your friends.

Please write back to let me know what interests you.

Until next time,
your friend,
Indy

Indy

Sun, July 22, 2018 at 2:54 pm GMT

Hi Students

How are you? How was your time off?

I enjoyed reading your journal very much. You mentioned quite a bit of your time at school. I am a bit curious about your time outside of school.

What do you do when you are home? Do you need to help taking care of family members? Do you need to work in the field? Do you need to help with cooking the food? Do you spend time with your friends? Do you like to sing? Do you like to dance? Do you like to play ball games?

It will be great if you can let me know what your life is like.

Now you are back at school, I hope you have a successful term.

Please write back.

Until next time

Indy

Carolina

Fri, January 19, 2018 at 9:04 am GMT

Dear Jonathan,
I hope you are fine, back to my side I am very fine.I feel very happy to see that you want to know our countries celebrations,i have seen yours and thank you very much because i have learned something.In our country on 12 of January we do celebrating revolution, and also on 8 of august we are celebrating farmers day.those are just some of our country celebrations.
I hope you will learn something also as how i learned from you,have a good time.
Carolina.

Carolina

Fri, January 19, 2018 at 8:54 am GMT

Dear Madam Judy,
How are you doing together with your family.to my side Iam very fine and Iam doing well with my studies.thanks be to the Lord that we have seen the new year and i hope too you celebrated well the new year.
I always feel proud of you Madam that you provided us with computers which are almost helping us to get different materials concerning with our studies and also getting enough chances of posting journals.
May dear God bless you always in your life and have long and happy life.

Carolina.

Jonathan

Mon, November 27, 2017 at 4:38 am GMT

Dear Students,

This week, the US celebrated one of our largest holidays: Thanksgiving.
In the United States, Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day is a public holiday on the fourth Thursday in November. On this day, people remember the first American Thanksgiving, when the first European settlers had been taught how to grow food by the NativeAmericans, and they celebrated the successful harvest together.

For many of us, the meaning of Thanksgiving usually includes feasting, four-day weekends, football games, floats, family reunions, or a forerunner to Christmas festivities. The “first Thanksgiving,” however, was neither a feast nor a holiday, but a simple gathering. Following the Mayflower’s arrival at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620, the Pilgrims suffered the loss of 46 of their original 102 colonists. With the help of 91 Indians, the remaining Pilgrims survived the bitter winter and yielded a bountiful harvest in 1621. In celebration, a traditional English harvest festival, lasting three days brought the Pilgrims and natives to unite in a “thanksgiving” observance.

This year, I celebrated Thanksgiving with a very nice dinner with my family with traditional food such as Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, etc..

Do you have a tradition similar to ours in your country? I’d love to hear about it.

Best,
Jonathan

Karen

Fri, November 3, 2017 at 7:21 pm GMT

Hello Young Ladies of the Iringa Girls School,

I hope you are all well. My name is Karen, and some time ago I was known to some of you, because we wrote to each other on The School Fund journal system.

If you have the chance to write to me I would like that very much. I promise to write back to you.

I am an older lady with one married son name Chris, and whose wife is named Jenny, and a granddaughter who is named Sheena and who is 15 years old.

I have worked with books my whole life, in bookstores and for a large publishing company in the United States. I live in the San Francisco bay area close to where Madam Judy lives.

I look forward to meeting you and reading about your school, and family, and friends, and activities, and what you are learning and thinking.

be well,
Karen

Jonathan

Fri, October 27, 2017 at 3:43 am GMT

Dear Students,

I love to collect wisdom from different sources that are meaningful to me.
Below are a few of my favorites that I would like to share with you:

1) When you master your emotions, you master your life
Anger. This is one emotion that is sure to pop up sometime during the day. How you deal with your anger says a lot about who you are as a person. How well do you manage your emotions? Do you have a harsh reaction if someone says something insulting to you? Anger can be a destructive emotion if not managed properly.

2) Respect other people’s opinions even when they differ from your own.

Conflict. It’s rare that two people agree on most topics. Conflict is everywhere. It happens at work, home, with family and friends. Disagreeing isn’t the problem (although most people think it is). The problem is not giving value to the opinions of others.

3) Experience The Joy Of Learning
Each time you learn something new you gain more knowledge and with more knowledge come more confidence. Learning helps us become more adaptable and flexible to new situations. Learning encourages us to be more creative and innovative in our thinking and we are therefore more comfortable with the unknown.
Reading books is a great way for us to learn. To fully embrace the joy of learning, never stop reading and searching for more knowledge.

4) Touch someone’s soul with your kindness
Random Acts of Kindness. It’s the little things in life that matter most. Hold a door, smile at people. Kindness does not cost much and it touches the soul of another person.

5) Speech is a powerful tool.
Your words. Watch your words carefully. They can be daggers or building blocks. You can crush the spirit of someone or make them feel like they can conquer the world. Taste your words before you spit them out. Words are your thoughts coming to life. It’s your choice.

What are your favorite quotes and wisdom to live by? I’d love to hear your thought on that.
Cheers,
Jonathan Gilbert

Carolina

Fri, October 20, 2017 at 9:03 am GMT

Hello Karen,
How are things over there, in Tanzania we are great fine.
I am going well with my studies.
How is climatic condition there,in Tanzania it is hot time there is hot in every where during day time with exception of few places.
Have a nice weekend.
Carolina.

Carolina

Fri, October 20, 2017 at 8:44 am GMT

Hello madam Judy,
How are you, i hope you are great fine, I am also fine and I am going well with my studies.
I thank God that he was with you in all your journeys and you are now at home safely.
I feel proud of you madam Judy, i was very happy to see you in Tanzania we enjoyed a lot,thank you very much for your gifts may God bless you every day in your life .
we are now enjoying our studies very well together with posting journals because you contributed computers which are almost giving us great chance of performing our academic issues,thank you very much madam Judy for your contribution you help us a lot.
we are now in preparation of form six mock examinations which we are going to start on 13 November 2017 up to 28 November 2017. Our aim is to reach university so i try my level best so as i can reach my goals.
Have a nice weekend.
Carolina.

Judy

Tue, October 10, 2017 at 12:13 am GMT

Hello students,

I finally got back to the US last week.
It has been a very long trip to Tanzania this year total three weeks.

I was very happy to meet all of you and know everyone better.

My trip started from Karatu. I visited 5 schools in Karatu and I learn where do you go to school every day.

I am very happy to know all of you are doing well and every of you has a dream that you want to be successful one day. I encourage all of you to try your best to reach you own destination.

The get together was so well prepared and done by each of you. I am very happy to saw all your science presentations and poems you wrote to TSF and me. I will treasure them all my life.

I can say I am very proud to all of you. Keep up the good work I want to see each of you one day get to
good University/College to reach your own dream.

After Karatu, I went to ARUSHA attended the TED Global conference and visited couple schools in ARUSHA.
I enjoyed the TED conference this year. It was focused on the Africa, specially in agriculture, health and education.

Mr. Amos was a volunteer there, he had great experience being this Global conference and met people from around the world.
He had a life experience at the conference, where he was able to meet a group of bright inventive and talented group of people.

Later I went to Iringa. Iringa almost the second hometown for me. I have been there six times.
I visited all 8 schools in Iringa and meet all of you in person. I was very happy to meet you.

I had a great time at the get together party. All of you did a wonderful presentation. I am very happy to know all of you had fun that night.

My this year Tanzania trip was set MMM computer center for most of the 13 TSF schools.
At Iringa, We build total 5 new computer center in Iringa girls, Klerruu, Lugalo, Ebenezer, Miyomgoni and Update one MMM center at Ummusalama. We build one new computer center at Karatu Secondary School and update one MMM center at Ganako.

I am very proud of building the MMM computer center in most of the TSF schools. I really want all of you to go to the computer center to learn every subject you are interested from the RACHEL PLUS.
In the future everyone work will be on the computer. I hope that every single of you tell me what do you learn from the RACHEL PLUS.
I would like you could to start the debate team in your school so you all could practice how to speak in the public. Have the Math Club and challenge each other on the Math.

They will all benefit your long-term confidence.

I hope I will hear from all of you soon.

Jonathan

Sat, September 30, 2017 at 12:22 am GMT

Dear Students,

I ran across a very interesting article about 15 life lessons. I like it a lot and thought that you might enjoy reading it also. So here it is ..

15 Life Lessons people most often learn too late in Life

1. Never compare your weaknesses to other people's strengths.
2. Own your life, or someone will own it for you.
3. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
4. If you accept your limitations, you go beyond them.
5. Comfort is the enemy of achievement.
6. No matter anyone says to you, you don't have to eat dinner with them, live with them or go to bed with them.
7. If you risk nothing, you risk everything.
8. Don't give others the power to control your emotions. Those are only yours and it is only for you to manipulate.
9. Victory introduces you to the world, but defeat introduces the world to you.
10. If you don't do stupid things while you are young, you will have nothing to smile about when you are old.
11. Don't waste your time with an explanation; people only hear what they want to hear.
12. Don't rest after your first victory, because if you fail the second time, more lips will be waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.
13. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves.
14. The person that you will spend the most time with in your life is yourself, so better try to make yourself as interesting as possible.
15. The only person you can trust fully is You.
Nobody is going to stay forever.
Social media friends can like but will not likely be there for you.

Best,
Jonathan Gilbert

Karen

Mon, September 4, 2017 at 2:11 am GMT

Hello Students!

I wanted to write to say hello to you all and to ask how your school year is going?

Almost all of the United States has been watching and reading about the hurricane that came ashore in the state of Texas last week, bringing very large amounts of rain up to 52 inches in 3 days. They had named the storm

Judy

Sat, August 19, 2017 at 5:36 pm GMT

My fellow student:

Welcome back to school! This is a new semester, it is time for new goals. new ideas and new learning.
At end of last semester, I wrote to you to write to me about the most remarkable or important thing that happened to you during your holiday! I am looking forward to reading your reply when you next write your journal.. Now while I really interested in what are you taking this year what will be your favorite subjects.

Knowledge will give you the power to be known you must read everything you can the more you know the more valuable you will be as a person and to your society.

I am coming to Tanzania at end of August and beginning the September.
I am looking forward to seeing you all.

Have fun and stay focuse! Best wish for all of you!

Seraphine

Tanzania

The experience that I had early in life was to score good marks in my class, whereby I got good grades which encouraged me to study hard in class. The difficult experience that occurred in my life was an accident on my way back home. I learnt that I should not play again in bad areas. In my life I am proud of myself. I was getting low marks in class but now I have managed to improve a lot. The most memorable and happiest thing in my life is to play football. It exercises my body regularly and hence strengthens my body system. My dream is to become a mechanical engineer. The best way to reach it is through studying hard in school, in physics, mathematics and chemistry. If I had power in my country, I would change the education system of the country so that it helps graduates to depend more on self-employment.

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Gideon

Tanzania

I have experience planting vegetables because my parents do that. Also, we have a garden at our home. Therefore, that is experience I have had in life. Apart from that experience, I also had a difficult experience when I failed my geography exam. That enabled me to learn how to cooperate with other students. I was so proud of myself when I performed well in my national exam. The memorable and happiest moment in my life will be when I reach my dream of being pilot. I will be so happy. My biggest dream is to be a pilot. I will get there through studying hard in physics, geography, and mathematics. After reaching my dream, I will help my parents to modify their cultivation system and to become professional farmers. From there they can expand the area of cultivation into a large plantation. Once I get a chance to have the power to change my country, I will build many airports in each region and some districts. This will help in the flexibility of transportation in my country.

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Godfridi

Tanzania

Experiences in my life are when I failed my examination during primary education and also when my parents failed to pay food for me. My difficult experiences in my life are when my parents have insufficient enough money to pay for all my basic needs at school such as food and other school contributions. The thing that makes me feel so proud of myself is when I succeeded in joining O-level education. This makes me feel that I will, I must, I can do everything. The most memorable and happiest thing in my life will be to reach my dream of being a doctor general so as I can help other people in society. My future dream is to be a GOOD surgical doctor. After me reaching my dream, I will give back help to my society and family, but also to WEF. I need to work hard upon reaching my dream in my life. Once I get chance to have power of changing anything in country, I will improve the education system by converting science subjects from theory to practical. In most of our schools, they teach science subjects mostly theoretically. I will start from there because as we know education is the key to every success in our people.

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