Southeastern CT Activities/Tanzania

In April, Platt Arnold and Bill Wernau made presentations at Fitch Middle School in Groton. Bill came down with a kidney stone attack during the initial class and Platt and the classroom teacher, Tricia Hird, completed the remainder of the classes. Platt had done the "basket presentation" at an earlier date at Wheeler Middle School in North Stonington. Thanks Platt!

Edna Gilstad of Niantic Community Church gave me some photos from a trip made by one of her friends, Nancy Levine, to Tanzania. The tour took them to a village on a mountain where they saw many women anxiously engaged in a variety of enterprises. All of this began with a woman, Mama Anna, receiving a cow from Heifer. She grew the business, got more cows, sold the milk, learned to make and sell cheeses and honey. Now the women's cooperative that she leads makes skirts, grinds and roasts coffee and markets cheeses and honey. Edna had tears in her eyes when she told me about this. Niantic Community Church has donated many "Arks" to Heifer.