Tanzanian Community Service

“Why do my nails always go in crooked?”

“This plank is so hard to cut!”...

At the Umoja Center, a local NGO providing educational opportunities for out-of-school children, Our students are assisting in building desks and bookshelves: from moving heavy planks, to measuring the cutting length of each piece, to personally wielding saws to cut the wood, and finally assembling it piece by piece with nails and hammers—every step is the tangible result of their active engagement and reflection.

Under the blazing African sun, weary from a day's labor, they watched as each desk and bookshelf took shape. These structures embodied not only their sweat and toil but also carried their profound wish to help local children gain better learning conditions—a tangible testament to each person's growth.

From their initial tentative grasp of tools to mastering skilled techniques; From their initial confusion—“I'm so slow, not as good as the volunteers, feeling like I'm holding everyone back”—to their exclamations of pride upon seeing the finished desks and bookshelves—“Look, I made this! Isn't it sturdy?”—resilient growth had quietly taken root. The power gained from the unknown lies not in speed or quantity, but in the profound meaning and weight behind it.

As the children embarked on their journey home, they carried back not only souvenirs and photographs from foreign lands, but also a profound inner harvest. The seeds of social responsibility had taken root in the soil of what they had seen with their own eyes and done with their own hands; the bridge of cross-cultural communication had begun to take shape upon the foundation of sincere cooperation and mutual respect.

The significance of this journey lies in its quiet achievement of two vital connections: first, linking distant global issues with personal agency, transforming “global concern” into “local kindness”; second, connecting diverse cultures with individual lives, turning ‘difference’ into a wellspring of “understanding.”

We believe that what they saw, did, and felt on Tanzanian soil will become spiritual nourishment for their future growth, helping them blossom into global citizens with greater inner strength, broader horizons, and a deep concern for the human community.

The children served a distant land with their own hands, and in return, that distant land gifted them a wider world.

This, precisely, is the moving essence of education in motion.

2025年11月28日-12月6日，12名广诺师生远赴非洲，开展为期一周的坦桑尼亚社区服务之旅。

这是广诺师生第四次来到非洲大陆开展社区服务。

每次远行，不仅是一次地理上的跨越，更是一场深入心灵的教育实践。

“我的钉子怎么总打歪”

“这块木板好难切”

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在当地为失学儿童重获学习机会的社会组织(NGO)Umoja中心，广诺学子正在这里协助建造课桌和书架：从搬动沉重的木板，到测量每块木板的切割长度，到亲自拿着锯子将木板切割，再到拿起钉子和锤子一下又一下地将其组装成型，每一步都是他们亲身体验背后积极投入和反思而成的劳动结晶。

在非洲的骄阳下，带着一天的辛劳与疲惫，看着一个个课桌和书架建造完成，这既是他们辛劳汗水的具体体现，也承载着他们协助当地儿童获得更好学习条件的深远祝福，更是每个人成长的实在见证；

当他们从起初拿起工具的浅尝，蜕变为后来驾轻就熟的技术拿捏；从他们发出“我做得好慢，也做得没志愿者好，感觉在拖后腿” 的困惑，到面对课桌和书架成型后发出“看，我做的，是不是很结实”的感叹，韧性的成长已经悄然发生：从“未知”所获得的厚积薄发，不在于其速度与数量，更在于背后的意义与分量。