Kirabuni House

Welcome to our home at Shukrani College - Karibuni House. "Karibu" means 'welcome' and that is what we have felt. Our tmporary home is a step up from our caravan. The sitting room window looks out on to the grounds of the small campus that houses the Administration block, classroms, computer laboratory, library and residential acommodation for students and the principal, the local Salvo Corps and officers quarters and some pre-school classrooms.

A morning walk around the block is a religious expereince in itself. Apart from the local Corps the wall of the compound is a pictorial overview of the Bible. Turning right out of the gates you can work from the New Testament back to Genesis. There is an article about the mural that can be accessed via the Salvation Army International Headquarters website - just search under Shukrani.

Continuing around the corner to the right the Moravian Church own a block. Next comes the Church of God in Tanzania. Immediately behind Shukrani is a Baptist Church, and our second turn right takes us past the Baptist Medical centre. The religious experience is not yet complete, and as we make yet another right turn the Revival Assemblies of God are on one side, and a little further up the road is the entrance to the Evangelical Assemblies of God Tanzania.


Just to bring the religious balance to the locale as we take another right hand turn the local mosque sits on our left.
I am also reliably informed that there are at least another four churches within about 400 meters of this block!
Our days here begin with the call to prayer from the mosque at 5 a.m., but sometimes we sleep through that one. It is a bit harder to sleep through the thumping bass that comes through from the E.A.G.T. next door. At 7 a.m. last Monday morning it was not especially welcome!


For those not into religion there is a shop directly opposite the ccentre gates, and a local market less that 500 metres down the road. Now that is an interesting place - and it even has its own food court, just like the shopping malls back home (well almost!).