Immanuel Ismael
Kashu Longoi
Cleopa Joseph
Loshiro Saibulu
Elia Thadayo
Neema Lemburis
Saruni Orbosikan
Nyando Lekuti mugshot
Off the bus when the group arrived in Arusha is Cleopa. Many of the students had never come to the city before, though this one had. The bus ride from Engaruka to Mto wa Mbu, the nearest town, takes 2 1/2 hours and is about 60 kilometers (38 miles). From Mto wa Mbu to Arusha is 1 1/2 hours on paved roads.
The students in single file by the main bus stand in central Arusha.
Tailoring for uniforms trousers and skirts. The seven students who came this day required 9 meters of navy blue cloth. Each were given two trousers or two skirts.
Saruni gets measurements taken at the tailor on the street near Soko Kuu, the main market in central Arusha.
The group, shopping for uniform and school supplies near the busy Stend Ndogo, where passengers board the local public transportation (note the giant orange underwear above Venance's head).
Cleopa and Nyando on the right while Venance's bicycle is loaded up with their school supplies for the 3-mile trip to school. Venance and Kellen (far right) helped with the shopping, paperwork, transporting the students, and many other arrangements for the students.
Msseemmaa's apartment served as a staging area, where the supplies were sorted, counted, divvied up and given to each of the students before they could be admitted in the dormitories. In a red t-shirt is Amani Laizer, who worked with Msseemmaa to bring the students from their villages to Arusha.
The two scholarship recipients from Selela village are Saruni and Cleopa. Behind them, from right to left, is Cleopa's father Joseph, his mother Namayani, and their neighbor Maria.
Namayani Nailenya is a church elder at Selela and mother of one of the scholarship recipients, Cleopa. Here, she cooks in her Kitchen.
Inside the mud-and-cow dung church building, during worship at the Selela congregation of Engaruka Lutheran Parish.
An rooster is auctioned after church at the Selela congregation of Engaruka Lutheran Parish.
These 16 students from Engaruka Juu, Engaruka Chini, and Selela came together to take the entrance exam for the scholarship program at Selela Primary School. Thirteen of them passed.
Saruni, on the day the secondary school entrance exams were given at Selela Primay School. His father initially refused to let him sit the exam. Saruni was out herding cows when he was picked up and brought to the school to take the test.
The bush near Engaruka Juu, where three of the students come from.
Glory Longolie mugshot
