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Has it been a cold season for you?
Hearts were getting warmed... 

If only we could hear their voices...                                                                                                                                        

Tug of War – who wins?

                                                                                                              
Spending time with the boys and girls of Open Learning School with approximately 50 students in July has been quite heart warming. These amazing teenagers like other teenagers, all desire to live lives that are godly. Our passion is to share with the young on building healthy relationships.
The students live in the slum and much of what they know is knowledge they receive from their one-roomed family houses and from what they watch on TV for those who have. At first, they seem like young people who have lost hope but with time, we see them open up expressing themselves and what they are going through.
 We still couldn’t have enough of each other as we were finishing the session because they were all beaming with enlightenment that life can be brighter. Best part was seeing them make up their minds to change.                                                                                                                                                                   

Students from Gentle Bells



            
Young Men from Machakos Boys School also had a taste of our CPR program that focuses on the whole person: Physical, mental, emotional and spiritual... They were surprised it was really short and asked that we go back to their school. We will go on a warmer day, hahaha. All the same, they insisted that we should keep going to schools and share CPR (our sexuality program: Creating positive Relationships- CPR) with other schools because we seem to understand the youth well.
We had to bring the fun to a halt as the boys could have gone on and on through the evening and disrupt their preps. Our time was over anyway so we had to leave! Tanari facilitators can only thank God because we were touched by these sentiments.      

It is our desire to not only see the young opening up & making conscious decisions to change, but also to train the teachers and youth leaders to be able to pass on the same message to the youth under their influence. We travelled to Kayole to meet up with Maisha Mema staff for 2 full days.
In the end, we can only say we are humbled to work with such a great team! Some of the comments coming from them were quite moving: ‘where has this program been all along?’ others recommended it saying ‘this program starts with me before it goes to my children’. This was indeed a touching time for us all and we can only say our July was warmed.

Did I mention that we have uploaded photos of other exciting stuff on facebook? Check them out on ‘Tanari Trust’ & you can like our page if you haven’t.



 




There are other things you can read from our blog : tanaritrust.blogspot.com & website:  www.tanari.org  pages, just have a look!!!
        
Ok, gotta go now, we have lots of activities this August, CPR at Nairobi School, CPR Camp for Teenagers, lots of different groups camping at Camp Malta, and Team Building Events (a little birdie said we are taking Nation Media group up Mt. Kilimanjaro – Exciting)
We shall also be visiting schools, Churches, organizations, and individuals holding conversations on how we can work together to guide our youth into living healthy meaningful relationships.
                                                                                                                                                
That’s why we are all rocking these ministry shoes! Hahahaha!!!


Below are some of our upcoming events:

     For Exciting Ex-candidates aged 17-20yrs        

   






       CPR Camp – Positive Relationships


 























This was a grand heart warming July!!! We look forward to a happy fruitful August. Until then, Hasta la vista!


If you want to know more about Tanari Trust, check us out on  www.tanari.org 
Wanna contact us?: http://www.facebook.com/tanaritrust or info@tanari.org

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