OUR LATEST NEWS : April 2009 LONG TERM PLAN

Summer Volunteers - This summers group of dedicated WIT volunteers will be heading out to Tanzania in the next few weeks. We have 13 volunteers that will be working with our partner projects in Meserani and Kisongo. A big thank to all who have supported their fundraising activities over the last few months. Any extra donations would of course be much appreciated! Please do get in touch.

Good luck and safe travelling to our volunteers. Look out for pictures of their trip in September!

Summer Term in Nottingham Uni...

With the sun just starting to appear, Working in Tandem are looking forward to lots of summer fundraising activities as we head towards the end of term.

Committee Elections - The new student committee to run Working in Tandem have been selected and are busy planning our next successful year! Look out for the up and coming events. Just some of this terms events include...

 Film Screening at the Savoy Cinema, Lenton -  Following the success of past film nights,  we showed the classic, 'Trainspotting' on April 28th. A big thank you goes to the Savoy cinema, for their support. Look out for some more showings next term and do feel free to send us any suggestions of films you would like to see on the big screen!

Nottingham University Summer Party - As usual the Tandem volunteers were out and about at this summer's party. Thank you to all those who bought glow sticks and donated their hard earned cash! 

 Upcoming Events: Sounds on the Downs - June 11th - Working in Tandem will be taking part in this summers 'Sounds on the Downs', as organised by Nottingham's SU. We will be doing some face-painting and fundraising here, so come along and show your support!

Africa Week 

This year Africa Week will ran from the 1st to the 7th March. Our awareness officer Alice worked hard to organise a series of events with Africa based charities across the university. The week was really successful and Working in Tandem managed to raise over £150. There were numerous events run by WIT, alongside other uni societies. These included a debate about aid given to Africa (which, our committee member Maya managed to win!), a club night at Market Bar in Nottingham, a pub quiz and film screening. Working in Tandem would like to thank all societies and local businesses which helped to make Africa week such a success. We hope to make it even bigger and better next year!

Autumn Term at Nottingham Uni...

This term we have had a number of successful fundraising activities - so thank you to everyone who has supported us!

We started the term off with a recruitment fair, to encourage some of this year's freshers to get involved! With their support we ran a cake sale and also a quiz night, at the Old Peacock. This alone was an amazing success, raising around £150! There were even people having to sit on the tables as it was so full! We hope to make this a regular event, so do come and support us whenever you can!

In November, we held another cinema screening at the Savoy in Lenton. This time we showed Jurassic Park! Again, we managed to raise an amazing amount of money - over £500. Look out for our next screening in the new year and send us any suggestions of films you would like to see on the big screen!

Feedback from the people we worked with in Tanzania this summer..

20TH JULY: VOLUNTEERS ARRIVE AT KISONGO!

The final volunteers arrived in Kisongo on Sunday, completing the group of six who will be helping at the primary school by teaching and developing resources. Two volunteers will also be helping to conduct research for the Youth Development Network and put together a long term plan for Ensue Community School.

25TH JUNE: TANDEM JOIN THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT NETWORK TANZANIA CHAPTER

Working in Tandem were invited to attend the introductory meeting of the Youth Development Network, which aims to empower young people to gain self employment and improve their skills in vocational subjects. We were also invited to join the network and we hope to work with them in the future. More information will be available on this site shortly.

16TH JUNE: VOLUNTEERS ARRIVE AT MESERANI!

Working in Tandem volunteers arrived safely at Meserani Education Centre to start assisting the staff with the development of the centre. We were pleased to see that the Kindergarten, built last summer, is now open and has a full class of around 25 children. Volunteers will be staying until the end of July to research community needs and self-sustainability, and to assist in the maths, computers and English classes.

3RD MAY: PAST VOLUNTEERS MEETING

The meeting of previous volunteers was a huge success, thank you to everyone who came! The next meeting will be on the 27th of September, where we will be hearing the debriefing from the volunteers visiting Tanzania this summer.

NEMA's VISIT TO NOTTINGHAM!

Between Tuesday 22nd of April and Thursday 24th of April Nema George visited Nottingham. Nema is the children's teacher at Meserani Education Centre, and spent her time here visiting the University and meeting the tandem volunteers going out to visit the centre this summer, as well as catching up with past volunteers who visited the centre in the last few years!

GREAT SCOTT!!
We sold out! Back to the future at the Savoy cinema sold 337 tickets and we ended up having to turn people away because there just wasn't any room left! It was a great night enjoyed by everyone and ended up raising over £600!! Not bad for a night at the cinema. This makes us the best one-off screening held by a charity!! Keep your eyes peeled next year for more 80s classics on a screen near you!

AFRICA WEEK proved to be a great success with some fantastic events drawing in large crowds. Everyone enjoyed themselves and the only unanswered question is: same time next year?

OCEAN MIGRATION was part of Africa Week and proved to be the best night out in Ocean for a long time, people were dressed as safari animals complete with inflatables, all completed by the sound of hakuna matata blaring out across the club!