Poverty Eradication Network Trust

When Solveig Misner returns home to the US, she may be asked if she did anything special for her birthday while she was away in Tanzania. Solveig, alongside parents and villagers surrounding the Ikhanoda Secondary School, helped to prepare flooring to complete two classrooms and their verandas on her special day. The funds for the materials and skilled labor were made possible by another donor in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Feed My Starving Children representative, Patty Kleve, and friend Denise Spanbauer spent two weeks with PEN Trust visiting elders and families that had benefitted from the food we received from FMSC.
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Ikhanoda Ward is among the typical areas in Singida Region which is affected by low literacy levels. Every year there are more than 200 students eligible to go to secondary school that could not make it because of the non availability of sufficient secondary schools.

In 2003, PEN Trust donated school plans and subsequently donated skilled labour to realize the class rooms which will cater for more secondary school enrollment. In October 2005, PEN Trust donated the highly appreciated books from Books For Africa. Thanks BFA!

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PEN Trust was recently involved in coordinating the acquisition and distribution of vegetable seeds to area garden co-ops.

The seeds were donated by the Precious Blood Society here in Dodoma but originally came from Halifax Seed Company in Canada.

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In 2004 PEN Trust had the opportunity to distribute books sent to Central Tanzania by Books for Africa, a wonderful organization located in my native Minnesota.

These are some of the pictures that we took during the process of receiving, sorting, and distributing the books to schools and libraries.

This picture shows students at the Msalato Girls Secondary School unpacking their new books.

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