Friday, March 2, 2012

Jackson's story

First of all, there was Jackson's story. One of his clients, an Italian woman, wanted to help after he had taken her to his village to visit his mother. After seeing that Jackson's mother had to walk for miles to get water, which she carried home in a big heavy jug on her head, this woman went back to Italy to raise money to bring water to the village. As a result of her efforts, the village had water, the school had water which enabled them to give each of the 700 children fresh water and breakfast each day. We asked him how much the project cost, expecting to hear a very large number for something that would make a difference for so many. $5000 was the figure and we were inspired that we too, could make a difference in some lives in Tanzania.
Jackson tells us about a village water project
And then as we drove along on our way to the Serengeti, we knew we wanted to do more and Jambo Creations was born over the next 10 days in our Land Cruiser and midwifed by our guides, Clamian and Jackson. Andrea had the initial idea. Why not create a line of fashion products to sell on Etsy, http://www.etsy.com/people/JamboCreations?ref=si_pr with the proceeds going to help the school?

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