The Giving Gift: Service Learning, Sports, and STEAM for my 10-year-old American Daughter in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

When the opportunity arose to volunteer at Camp NexGen™ in Tanzania, I knew immediately that I wanted to go and that I wanted to take my 10-year-old daughter with me. It would be her first international trip. But along Tanzania’s Indian Ocean coast, in East Africa’s largest city, Dar es Salaam is where our trip went from once-in-a lifetime, to life-changing. 

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#CampToCareer

In September 2022, launched a new initiative - #CampToCareer. Identifying two campers from our Zimbabwe cohort in this new initiative, LGRRG has sponsored Lean and Leon to go through 18-months of drone-specific training in partnership with Zimbabwe Flying Labs. Once training is complete, they will be licensed drone pilots with a sub-specialty of their choosing, and have the ability to launch their own drone companies, or serve as contracted drone pilots / instructors in Zimbabwe and across the globe!

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Camp NexGen™ Through the Eyes of the LGRRG Village

On August 6, 2022 at around 5:00PM Central African Time, we wrapped Camp NexGen™ Zimbabwe. Huddled around the registration tables we’d set up just 10 hours prior, we raised our cups to toast the end of a camp well done. Feelings of excitement and uncertainty at the start of camp, morphed into deep appreciation and admiration of the campers, volunteers, partners, and, the assignment. We all basked in the profundity of what we were able to accomplish over the 3-days for the local children, all while still processing the deep effects the experience had on ourselves. In the video below, hear the impact of Camp NexGen™ Zimbabwe through the words of those who were there to make it all happen.

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Progress Through Partnership – You’re only as strong as your Team

A camp like Camp NexGen™ Zimbabwe is a direct result of the foundation built through many partnerships. While there are practical reasons to co-host our camp with other organizations, we particularly love doing so because we find that our local ties get deeper, stronger, and more sustainable. It validates our work when local and international organizations lean into LGRRG’s vision and come alongside to share their time, talent, and resources to see it come to fruition.

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