http://www.tzkids.org/home Orphanage and outreach center Sat, 15 May 2010 19:29:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back in December we sent little Mohammed back to his grandparents to live. He was two years old at the time, thriving, and his grandparents had the ability to care for him since he was walking and talking. At first we worried about his adjustment, but recently, Glory and George ... http://www.tzkids.org/home/mohammed-hajambo-mohammed-is-doing-ok/ The Baobab farm is a lush, green wonderland these days due to all the rain.  What great timing that the Rotary Club of Dar es Salaam donated about 600 fruit trees to the Baobab Home this month.   Thanks to their generosity, we now have Avocado, Mango, Soursop, Coconut palm, Guava ... http://www.tzkids.org/home/thank-you-rotary-club-of-dar-es-salaam-for-trees/ Bahati, (meaning - luck), is The Baobab Home's newest family member! Social services informed us of an abandoned baby girl that had been living at the hospital since birth. Bahati is four months old, and has a very healthy appetite for milk! She arrived at The Baobab Home on April ... http://www.tzkids.org/home/karibu-welcome-bahati/ [caption id="attachment_557" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Omi,Hadija and Faiza"][/caption] Teresa, a professional speech therapist, recently visited The Baobab Home, to meet and work with Omari and Faiza! The small piece of skin under Omari's tongue was too short, which made it difficult for him to made different sounds and learn to speak. We took ... http://www.tzkids.org/home/omari-and-faidha-learning-to-talk/ Volunteer Coordinator Martha Richardson of Canada will be taking over some of the blogging to keep you all updated. Here's her first interview with Lead Caregiver Glory. As you will see, Glory makes a hard job look easy! Thanks to Martha and Glory! Mama Glory is close with each child living ... http://www.tzkids.org/home/mama-glory-lead-caregiver-at-baobab/ We took the photo for the shirt, but Juma is a terrific kid and deserves his props. He's been neighbor to the Baobab Home for 5 years. He's incredibly creative, building his own toys out of garbage. He builds miniature houses out of mud. He's a lefty, and he thinks ... http://www.tzkids.org/home/juma-dynamite/ [gallery] A few weeks ago when all of our summer volunteers were still here Laura, Laura, Ali, Rachel, Skye, Helen, Terri, Vivian, George and Mohammed all crammed in the car for a road trip. Eight Wazungu Women, a Man and a Baby- a new Feature Film. Our poor truck has never ... http://www.tzkids.org/home/visiting-mohammeds-family-and-wamangati-friends/ [gallery] Here are our Wee Ones! Laura Baraka is standing with confidence and just about to walk. She does the (seated)happy eating dance before every meal and likes to crawl without benefit of her knees. She is a little peach. Mohammed seems to have a blossoming comedic personality. His first words ... http://www.tzkids.org/home/babies-on-the-bed/ Welcome Home Muba!! Muba and his mother (now 'Mum') are back from England and we are so happy to have them. Muba has grown up so much in the many months he spent in London. He made a lot of friends at the school he attended at the hospital and ... http://www.tzkids.org/home/muba-healed-and-home-in-bagamoyo/ [gallery] We left facing what, in hindsight, seems like very low odds. We were pretty sure we knew the village where her family was from, but according to what little Debora remembered and had been told, just about everybody was dead. But it had become clear that Debora and her daughther ... http://www.tzkids.org/home/debora-and-baby-ester-go-home/