Team Trip - November 2020
The dates for our trip are tentatively planned for departing Tuesday, November 17, and returning Friday, December 4, 2020. We are spending the majority of our time at our community in Tanzania this year. We will be meeting with the Ishide Village elders and the District Commissioner for a banquet. We will worship with our students and staff during the Sunday church service and have daily devotions. Our plan is to build the chicken house and yard as a team project during our stay. We have $7,000 donated towards our chicken house project, and we are in the process of applying for a matching grant for the remaining $7,000. We will conclude our trip with a visit to the Masai Mara Game Reserve to spend a couple of days observing the animals during their migration.
Read about the experience of a team member:
"Trips like this are hard to describe. Many people are familiar with the idea of large, well organized mission trips that have a focus on major construction or evangelistic projects. We understand that large construction projects can be helpful to underdeveloped communities all over the world, yet we have also come to understand that the impact of these projects is usually less than we envision, despite our best intentions. We often come up against the wall of the native culture that continues long after we leave, and the communities we seek to support with our one-time projects can suffer when our resources leave with us. Although our mission trips to New Dawn Communities include activities like this, our focus is entirely different.
Read about the experience of a team member:
"Trips like this are hard to describe. Many people are familiar with the idea of large, well organized mission trips that have a focus on major construction or evangelistic projects. We understand that large construction projects can be helpful to underdeveloped communities all over the world, yet we have also come to understand that the impact of these projects is usually less than we envision, despite our best intentions. We often come up against the wall of the native culture that continues long after we leave, and the communities we seek to support with our one-time projects can suffer when our resources leave with us. Although our mission trips to New Dawn Communities include activities like this, our focus is entirely different.
The focus on New Dawn mission trips is personal connection. We get the opportunity to join Pastor Ron on his trip every summer. This isn’t a one-time mission, but a lasting relationship that we are building. We seek to personally connect with the New Dawn students to impart wisdom and encouragement. These students are orphans, and it is a strange and rare thing for them to feel connected and loved. We have terrific teachers and staff who treat the students well, but once a year we get the opportunity to show the students that people from across the globe came to spend a week with them, all because of love.
These trips are packed with many activities, it is the quiet times, though, that leave their mark. Conversations, countless hugs, and times when we can just love on some kids are what these mission trips are all about. While physical buildings will eventually wear and fall, the legacy of love always endures.”
These trips are packed with many activities, it is the quiet times, though, that leave their mark. Conversations, countless hugs, and times when we can just love on some kids are what these mission trips are all about. While physical buildings will eventually wear and fall, the legacy of love always endures.”
Next School Opens in Tanzania
We always envisioned New Dawn Communities being established in other countries. Having already done ministry in Tanzania since 2003, we had developed a good leadership team there. In 2012 some tribal Elders from Ishinde Village heard about New Dawn and offered us 50 acres of land for our school. So began the intentional planning and preparations for our next community. In 2014 we formed our indigenous board and officially incorporated with the government. We fenced our property, drilled a well, installed a generator and built a water storage tank. The campus was designed and our initial building plans were drafted. The first permanent structure was our Assembly Hall. In 2015-16, we started our Self Sufficiency efforts with greenhouse crops and maze. By 2017-18 we had constructed the dormitories and classrooms. With a lot of hard work, and approval from the Dept of Education, we were permitted to open our school. In January 2019 we received our first students.
We are also mindful of our relationship with our Village neighbors and have done a few community outreach projects. We installed windows in the local elementary school, built soccer goals for the Village and piped well water to a community spigot for our neighbors. These gestures have helped develop genuine respectful relationships with the Village and County representatives. We have even had the Vice President of Tanzania visit our school! Each year we host a banquet for the Ishinde Village Elders and our Same County Officials in an ongoing effort to maintain good will and foster collaboration on future endeavors, as our ministry grows.
The future is bright in Tanzania with New Dawn off to a very good start.
We are also mindful of our relationship with our Village neighbors and have done a few community outreach projects. We installed windows in the local elementary school, built soccer goals for the Village and piped well water to a community spigot for our neighbors. These gestures have helped develop genuine respectful relationships with the Village and County representatives. We have even had the Vice President of Tanzania visit our school! Each year we host a banquet for the Ishinde Village Elders and our Same County Officials in an ongoing effort to maintain good will and foster collaboration on future endeavors, as our ministry grows.
The future is bright in Tanzania with New Dawn off to a very good start.
New Dawn Tanzania has the ambitious goal of opening in January 2019 to its first class. The goal is in reach. Funding is needed for operations and continued construction as they prepare for additional classes in the coming years. Learn more HERE. Below are chronological slide shows of the progress to date.
Tanzania Vice President Samia Suluhu visits New Dawn, Nov 2018
New Dawn Tanzania Welcomes the First Class
ISHINDE VILLAGE, TANZANIA- A NEW SCHOOL UNDER CONSTRUCTION 2018
ISHINDE VILLAGE, TANZANIA- A NEW SCHOOL UNDER CONSTRUCTION 2017
2017
Team Returns to Kenya and Tanzania
A team of New Dawn supporters will be returning to Kenya and Tanzania from July 17 to August 5 to support our kids in school in Laikipia, Kenya and to begin building a new high school for orphans in Ishinde Village, Tanzania.
In Tanzania, the team will celebrate the first production from the new greenhouse which was supported by Sunrise Rotary of Napa.
The greenhouse provides an immediate source of revenue and will help feed the students in the future. Last year a water well was completed and water was made available to the local community and made further development possible. This year we will also be laying foundations for the main hall of the New School.
Team Returns to Kenya and Tanzania
A team of New Dawn supporters will be returning to Kenya and Tanzania from July 17 to August 5 to support our kids in school in Laikipia, Kenya and to begin building a new high school for orphans in Ishinde Village, Tanzania.
In Tanzania, the team will celebrate the first production from the new greenhouse which was supported by Sunrise Rotary of Napa.
The greenhouse provides an immediate source of revenue and will help feed the students in the future. Last year a water well was completed and water was made available to the local community and made further development possible. This year we will also be laying foundations for the main hall of the New School.
Slideshow of Greenhouse Construction
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2016
We hit WATER in Tanzania!!!! Praise the Lord!!!!! – 2016 April 15
Plan for the New Dawn Community in Ishinde Village, Tanzania:
(As of June 2015)
The overall plan is to build a facility similar to New Dawn Community in Laikipia, Kenya, which currently houses, clothes, feeds & educates over 100 orphans and/or disadvantaged high school students.
We hit WATER in Tanzania!!!! Praise the Lord!!!!! – 2016 April 15
Plan for the New Dawn Community in Ishinde Village, Tanzania:
(As of June 2015)
The overall plan is to build a facility similar to New Dawn Community in Laikipia, Kenya, which currently houses, clothes, feeds & educates over 100 orphans and/or disadvantaged high school students.
- Grade and pave access road (3 kilometers from property to Highway)
- Dig a well, Build a water storage tank
- Get the electric company to extend power to the property
- Build Phase I (dormitories, classrooms, kitchen, auditorium and multipurpose room)
- Open school in January 2017
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