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I am from a nuclear family with poor economic status. We depend on a small plot of farm. Paying for my school needs is difficult. At the beginning of the first term of my school, I hoped to do better in my class and now I am. I worked with carpenters during the break in order to pay school requirements. It was difficult to keep reviewing in mind what we learned for the whole term. My father did not go to secondary school and he doesn't understand the value of education. My dream is to be an engineer I can reach this by learning good skills.

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Philemon's Funding history

Year	Grade	Receipt	Status
2018	Form 3
2017	Form 2

Journal

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Susan

Sun, December 9, 2018 at 9:45 pm GMT

Hi Students!

I just read all the journal entries I have received since October. Such wonderful letters! I am so impressed by how mature and articulate you have become. I’m realizing that I have now been reading some of your journals for 5 years. When I look at your photos, I don’t recognize the child I first knew. You are teenagers now.
I especially love the stories that some of you told in your journals. Moral tales, I call them.

So congratulations for working so hard. I’m hoping you will achieve your goals, go to a university if you want, and become productive members of your community, and able to help others as you have been helped.

I am enjoying retirement. My age of 76 is bringing on a bit of health problems, like arthritis, but I keep active physically and don’t let it stop me from doing what I love to do.

I read a lot. I travel. I go to jazz concerts in San Francisco. I would love to return to Kenya and Tanzania for a visit. I’d love to visit your school. Maybe it will happen. Who knows?

So keep up the great efforts. I know it can’t be easy, but this is such a wonderful opportunity.

Very fondly, Susan

Susan

Fri, October 12, 2018 at 5:28 pm GMT

Hi wonderful students!
I've read all your journals this month, and really am impressed with your honesty and hard work at your schools. Some of you talked about the poverty that makes living difficult, and your understanding of the importance of an education. Many of you want to be doctors. I suspect some of you will find other passions for your future, but studying to be a doctor is a great goal, and will teach you discipline and the value of hard work. So try your best, and be of a positive mind. I have been getting ready to take a trip to the Caribbean island of Jamaica. I have relatives there who I love to see. I'm very excited to go. One of my cousins grows oranges and other Jamaican fruit. He has asked me to bring California apricots, almonds and dates. I guess they don't grow in Jamaica. My suitcase is weighed down with fruit! I'll write again when I return. Please know I am thinking of you, and wishing you a good school year. Susan

Susan

Sat, April 7, 2018 at 6:48 pm GMT

Hi WEF students
As always, I was inspired and happy to read your latest journals. You are a group of hard working students who care about your studies and how important education is to you, and to those who will benefit from your future endeavors. Many of you write about global climate concerns, and how climate changes affect life in Africa. Some are struggling with ideas of God. One student sent in a beautiful photo of a musk ox on a plain in the Gorongoro Conservation area. Another wrote a ode to Judy, the “Mother of WEF”. I’m sure the poem will touch Judy’s heart.

So thank you all who write in these journals.

I have been working in my garden. We have a few days of heavy rain, so it is a good time to weed. Also studying Spanish conversation. I’ve also been photographing some jazz musicians, which is very entertaining for me.

Take care. I’m guessing you are back from Easter break by now. Study hard! We are thinking of you.
Susan

Susan

Thu, February 22, 2018 at 7:33 pm GMT

Hi Students
How are you all? I’ve been reading all your journals, and enjoying them so much.
I learn a lot about your lives and about your struggles, challenges, and rewards in school. I so hope that you are going to succeed in school and that you will come out of school prepared to face a good future.

Your journals are all interesting. Sometimes someone writes a letter that is funny. Tariqaziz wrote a wonderful story about being chased by a bull on his way to market. Francis wrote about his daily routine in the morning before school. Very interesting to me to learn a little about your life out of school.

I have been gardening. A friend who is moving to another town gave me two large Azalea bushes to plant in my yard. In order to plant them in the right spot with enough shade, I dug up some other plants and moved them to a warmer spot. It was a long process. Now I hope the plants live!

Also I have an old house. The water pipes under the house have rotted and I have to replace them. AND there are rats under my house that chew the wood.

So that is the boring news of my life. HaHa
Susan

Susan

Wed, January 31, 2018 at 7:32 pm GMT

Dear Students
I understand you are all back from your vacation. Welcome back, and I hope you will find school interesting and rewarding. We support you and hope for your continuing success.

Philemon

Sat, December 2, 2017 at 8:44 am GMT

Hello Susan. For sure i am okay. I was reading the topic .It is about
Humidity
Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air. High humidity increases the chances of clouds and precipitation.
Relative Humidity
Humidity usually refers to relative humidity. This is the percent of water vapor in the air relative to the total amount
the air can hold. How much water vapor can the air hold? That depends on temperature. Warm air can hold more
water vapor than cool air.
Humidity and Heat
People often say, “it’s not the heat but the humidity.” Humidity can make a hot day feel even hotter. When sweat
evaporates, it cools your body. But sweat can’t evaporate when the air already contains as much water vapor as it
can hold. The heat index is a measure of what the temperature feels like because of the humidity

Susan

Tue, November 28, 2017 at 6:05 pm GMT

Dear Students

First, let me wish you good luck with your national exams. They must be over by now. I hope you all did well, and will be happy with your results.

Secondly, a very Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate Christmas, and I hope you all enjoy your holidays and New Year celebrations.

My family celebrated Thanksgiving last week. Thanksgiving is a time when friends and family make a big feast, and enjoy being together for the meal. The traditional meal has roast turkey, potatoes and other root vegetables, cranberries, and pumpkin and apple pies for dessert. This year I contributed cranberry sauce and cornbread stuffing. I love this holiday so much.

Of course, many people in the U.S. are poor and don’t have such happy holidays. I worked with a group who filled 1000 boxes with food for struggling families.

I had a wonderful trip to Morocco. I wonder how much of the food Moroccans prepare is also common in East Africa. There is a French influence and dry hot climate there. Spices such as cinnamon and turmeric and coriander are important in their food.

One letter from you talked about the importance of cooperating with others to achieve success. I was reminded of my grandfather, who was a bee keeper and a pastor. He was a great story teller. He gave sermons on the lives of bees who depended on cooperation to survive.

Much affection for you all.

Susan

Philemon

Sat, November 18, 2017 at 11:09 am GMT

Hello Jenny.It is my pleasure to see this day because it is very great day. I was very busy within this week because I was in form two national examination up to this moment I have remained with one subject to finish as you know that we are about to close the school next week and go for a holiday during the holiday time I expect to prepare for the next year physically and mentally so as to be fit.I have been informed that you are not okay healthly but I am vert sorry I hope that you will okay by the presence of God to whom we believe. I really consider your presence in my studies because you helped me a lot in paying my school fees and other important issues that are very essentials to me.

I would like to share few things with you about the climatic change because now in Africa the temperature is very hot to most of the areas the solution about this increase of temperature day to day the environments are to be conserved well and afforestation asa well to those areas where deforestation had taken place as well industrial activities so as to minimize the increase of temperature in Afica.
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH YOU ALL, I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST.........mary christmas and happy new year of 2018.
[...........................philemon Daniel.................see you more next year thank you and God bless you.......]

Philemon

Sat, November 4, 2017 at 1:00 pm GMT

Dear Jenny.how are you.let as share about life
In life process there are so many of the difficulties that a person pass to reach to the point of life.
I experience this to many of my friends who was pretended that the life is so simple especially those who are living in town plus those small workers so one of its impacts are like when one of this gets the problems for examples those who are working far away from their home areas when he/she gets the problems it will be very difficult to get the help .Especially those who are unfamiliar to a certain area .
But I like the one who is struggling with the life and the one who never for give up when looking for the success .my advice for those who are misusing the life such as drinking alcohol and prostituting ,because this may sometimes leads improper behavior that is not more acceptable to the societies.I like every one of us to consider in any of the profitable work that make the person to enjoy the life.
……………………………….thank you by Philemon…………………………

Jenny

Sat, November 4, 2017 at 7:40 am GMT

Dear students,
Welcome to the TSF family. It is a privilege for me to work with you. Though my welcome may come a little late. Please know how lucky you are to be included in this big family. Hope you are happy and do your best to achieve your goal. Opportunity does not come by easily, you need to remember to grab this chance and make your life different. Put your greatest effort and make your dream come true.
I am having some health problem; hence I am not able to reply to your journal promptly. Please know that all the TSF staff do care a lot about you. I will try to write to you more often after I gain my health back. Thank you for your understanding.
-Jenny

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

Philemon

Thu, October 26, 2017 at 11:01 am GMT

Thank you very much for your coming to us. We were very happy to see each other. it is true that you did a very long trip welcome again

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.

Philemon

Sat, October 7, 2017 at 9:52 am GMT

Dear Susan;
I hope that your fine as well as performing well your daily activities on my side I 'm also doing well with my studies. I'm so happy to see Judy when she came to Tanzania because we discussed so many things about education matters ,I learned so much things from her .I wish you a nice journey to Morocco God bless you in every things that you do , I real appreciate you because your the one who make me studying without any challenges about my school fees. I promise you that ,I will reach to dreams that I have.
................thank you and have a nice day........... philemon.

Susan

Tue, October 3, 2017 at 6:20 pm GMT

Hi Students

It seems you are all studying hard. I’m enjoying your letters.

We in the United States have been experiencing severe Hurricanes with much flooding and destruction. This has happened in the southern part of the country and on some islands off the eastern coast.

I am taking another trip soon. I’ll be going to Morocco for two weeks, to study Moroccan food, and to travel to the coast, and into the Atlas mountains to hike.

I hope you all are well, and working hard at making your dreams of successful school come true.
I hope you got to see Judy. She cares so much for you.

Susan

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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Bertha

Tanzania

Notable experiences in my life are, first, passing my standard seven examination and, second, entering secondary school. My most difficult experience was when I started to learn English. I have learned that if you want to do something, you have to work hard. I felt proud was when I entered secondary school. My most memorable and happiest thoughts are from when I celebrated at my birthday party. My dream is to be an electrical engineer. I will get there through studying hard and doing well in science subjects. If I had the power to change my country, I would like to improve the electricity supply especially in rural areas because there are shortages of electric power.

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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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