Set you Eyes on our Holy Milk Cow Prize!

I may be prejudice, but I think our milk cow is very very very good looking! I am just so grateful to donors, the Quest (Shannon and Julie), and the local partners (Jerusha, a local teacher Bruno Kapinga, and our Wagumu counterparts) for all of the efforts to make this project run smoothly in such a short time.

As one of the Quest donors stated, "Our project is Moovelous!"

Please see the link below from The Quest 2011 as some initial information they have gathered to tell you about the success of the Holy Milk Cow Fund!

The Quest

We bought a pregnant milk cow today!

YEA WE DID iT!!!!! Details to come! Compassionate Backpackers are having the adventure of their lives! And enjoying every minute! Let's just say their was a enormous celebration in the village today! AND with the money leftover we were able to buy a roof for a classroom for Wagumu Camp to teach health, reading, and life skills!

When "Holy Milk Cows Fly"...to DC!

Shannon and Juls are on their way to Dulles Airport in DC, a short pit stop on their way to Tanzania! I am set to meet them to go over the details of the Holy "Milk" Cow adventure. Stay tuned. I think there will be alot of surprises! While I wait for them at the hotel, I will think of random swahili words that relate to the Holy Milk Cow Fund 2011. yep. I am bored...

Swahili Lesson of the Day

Kumbe (Kum-bay)- Exclamation of Surprise!

Kazi (Kaa-zee)- Work

Wagumu (Waa-Goo-Moo) - People with Hardships

Ngombe (gnome-bay)- Cow

Maziwa (Ma-Z-Wa)- Milk

Fedha (Feh-the)- Money

Mungu (Moon-goo)- God

Nzuri (Nnn-zuri)- Good

Shannoni (Sha-no-knee)- Shannon's name in Swahili

kuku (coo-coo)- chicken

mbuzi (mm-boo-zee)- goat

Nagaga Kijiji (Na-ga-ga Key-jee-jee)- Nagaga Village

Maisha (My-isha)- Life

ni (knee)- is

Matamu (Ma-Ta-Moo)- Sweet

Upendo (Ew-Pen-Doe)- Love

Amani (Ah-Mon-eee)- Peace

Amani Everyone!

Cold Hard Cow Cash

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~Mother Teresa

Next week, Shannon and Julie are flying, on their way to Tanzania, by way of Washington, DC. I will be delivering to them the $1000, and we will be organizing our thoughts on the two week project that will be happening in early August. As of now, many details are pending, we are still looking for our livestock to purchase and looking into sending Bwilo to a quick conference on livestock and basically figuring out all of the details in the back and forth between myself, Jerusha, Wagumu Camp and Bwilo.

Thanks for the Moooo-La!

We have officially raised ALL OF THE MONEY for this project!

1000 dollars!!!

Thanks to our final donor, and birthday girl, Jessica Smith!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSICA!

This will translate into over ONE MILLION TANZANIAN SHILLINGS! Thanks to everyone that donated! And stay tuned for the details of the Holy Milk Cow Project which takes off next month!

It takes a village to raise a milk cow!

The Wagumu Camp Community Group and Mkangaula Village have been alerted to and are very excited to hear of our fundraising successes! We are very close to our goal! Phone conversations with them are going well and the budgets and logistics are being formulated. This will not be an easy project--there will be ups and downs of completing a project such as this in a rural setting--but the Compassionate Backpackers, Jerusha, Shannon, and Julie have been working hard to get their plans coordinated. We still have $80 to raise, but are so close to our goal thanks to the support of so many fabulous people!

We have raised $919.71 from our goal of $1000!

Today's Forecast: Cloudy with A Chance of Milk Cow

Another big Thank Moo to all the donors and a shout out to Marisa Hanson and Michelle Choy, two Returned Peace Corps Tanzania Volunteers from the same Deep South region and Michelle even served in the same village as me! They both know the culture, language, and people of the Deep South area first hand and both generously gave to the Holy Milk Cow Fund! We have recently begun to contact Wagumu Camp about this project and will be updating the site with the budget and developing plan for the two weeks in August when this cow becomes a reality!

WE ARE NOW AT $776.30 RAISED FROM OUR GOAL OF $1000!