Jambo! My name is Abdul and this is Salma [hi] and I'm going to show you what it's
like to live in Tanzania. If you haven't heard of this before
Tanzania is a country in East Africa and nearly 60 million people live here. It's
known for its amazing environment and of course all the African wildlife in our
country. The Serengeti is one of the most famous of our parks in the world.
And we live really near by - our home is Arusha. We love living
here but it can be hard. Lots of people live here on less than $2 a day
but our school wants to help change that.
This is where I go to school. The school of St. Jude. It has a special connection to
Australia. It was started by this Australian lady, Gemma Sisia, way back in 2002
with just $10. Thanks Salma. Yes so I'm from country New South Wales and came
over to Africa many many years ago to do some teaching and thought it would be
really really good to build a good private school pretty much like the
school that you go to for our students here in Tanzania. We have over 1,800
students now from primary to secondary and over 90% of their scholarships are
sponsored by good Australians like yourselves. And they do arts and music
what's your favourite subject? [Science] Ah, so they do science, PE, music and all the great
subjects just like you. To go to our school, you have to be really special. We
were invited to the selection there we attended with over a thousand others.
We sat a special test and then some staff from the school had to come to our home to
see our family. It was such a good day when I got selected.
We were one of the 150 students selected each year.
And we received our school uniforms.
And this is my classroom where my favourite subject is science.
This is our soccer field and my favourite team is Manchester United
This is our library where we have thousands of books.
And this is where we eat our lunch.
This is our art room.
More than 1,400 students in primary and secondary school stay at the boarding houses.
We have sixteen cooks at a school that work really really hard to make our
healthy meals every day. That's a big job and my favourite food is rice and beans.
I go home to my family on weekends and school holidays.
This is my home. It's a half an hour drive from school.
Come and meet my Mum.
And this is my mum. And this is my bedroom where I sleep with my mom.
We cook using this kerosene stove.
This is where we get our water and we pay a small fee.
if I did not get to go to St. Jude's I might not have been able to go to school
as girls in Africa don't always get an education. My family are very proud
knowing that going to St. Jude will make a big difference on us and our community.
When I was home with my family we speak Swahili.
[Speaks Swahili]
But at school we speak English
because it will help us in the future to get a good job. I want to be a
doctor but first I need to get secondary school then enter university. I know I can
do it because St. Jude's and sponsors from around the world are helping me.
Hopefully, now you know a little more about my home and what's like to go to the school
of St. Jude here in Tanzania. You can come to visit us, we always
love visitors. Hope to hear from you soon. Good Bye!
you