Umoja has a home! Yesterday's contract signing was successful, and the couple who owns the house left the meeting truly happy to have been able to help a new NGO get on its feet. The possibilities that having our own space opens up for us are basically endless. It is a HUGE step for the organization. It's given us new energy to keep working on the registration process -- Liza and I went to a government office today, where we were pretty much given the run-around by a bunch of incompetent employees, but we'll try again on Monday.
Government operations here are so unbelievable inefficient, I'll never whine about the RMV again. I now realize that virtually every US office is, by comparison, a remarkably smooth-running, clean, well-equipped office full of friendly, competent, well-trained people who know what they are doing. (I know ...)
If Monday's effort to penetrate the beaurocracy is successful, we'll take the bus down to Dar Es Salaam to try to continue the registration process ourselves there over the weekend. Time is flying by, and I'm happy to be busy.
(Happy almost Halloween!)
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