Thanks so much for your feedback. Please let me know if I can help you with any more information, or if you have ideas about additional ways to spread the word. Going to Mali is an amazing experience. I've enjoyed working with the PCVs there.
Thanks so much for your feedback. Please let me know if I can help you with any more information, or if you have ideas about additional ways to spread the word.
I was blessed with the opportunity to share a geo-torism volunteer experience with Tandana in January 2009, Mali West Africa.
Something that will remain with me for many years. A marvelous, challenging and rewarding time for me. Not only a chance to meet and unite with a volunteer community of disparate North Americans and Europeans but the chance to be fully entrenched into a second family in the heart of Dogon country, the village of Kanshongo.
The honest, open-hearted joy and enthusiasm from the villagers who have so little and yet so much to give has left me with an ever-broadening perspective and daily benchmark of gratitude that no vacation brochure could ever put a price on. I continue to process the experience and am presently looking forward to receiveing a letter from one of my new village friends. The continents and miles melt away as we softly, gently reconnect the fractured pieces of the world. Thank you Tandana for this gift. I choose to carry forward the teachings to effect a greater real-world understanding for as many people as I may touch.
I was a participant in the Ecuador medical volunteer program this spring. This program is the real deal! The program leadership and philosophy educates its own volunteers about serving others in a way that honors and respects the assets of the community. Many of the participants were young and considering careers in medicine or human services. I'm glad this wise program was their introduction
This would truly be a gratifying and exciting experience. I look forward to learning more about Tandana. It gives me a whole new goal to reach for in life. I look forward to saving for a trip soon! Keep up the great work, Anna!
We love how this organization embraces a global, far-reaching 5,000-foot perspective when outlining its mission but quickly drops to five inches in terms of action programs, e.g., the sometimes lengthy cycle needed for cross-cultural understanding but also new reading glasses.
Similarly, including structural education enhancements along with international visitors promises longer-term, instutional advancements while offering very real, immediate paybacks from the visits.
Tandana invites participants to a new way of traveling the world. You are invited to become a part of the community where you are visiting. Each day brought us into the often ordinary daily experiences of new new friends half way around the globe. We learned how to fetch water from the well, how to swing a hoe while singing in unison with our friends from Kansangho and we walked miles in the bare foot steps of the women as we gathered fire wood from the sand dunes. We learned to experience the joy of trying local delicacies, tried our hands at various artistries such as weaving, mud cloth dying and indigo arts. We floated down the Niger River, touched the colorful fabrics in the markets, held our breath as we passed some of the booths in the market selling things I have never seen before, and found amazing new friends and family. Since experiencing travel the Tandana way, my new motto at home is "I want to live the way I travel."
I had the opportunity to participate in the Tandana Foundation's volunteer programs in Ecuador in 2008. Because of the long-term relationships of trust and mutual respect that Anna Taft and the Tandana Foundation have built in these communities over the past five years, I was able to have an unusually authentic experience. I lived and worked in a small indigenous community where I was the only foreigner. Although it is a poor community where families struggle to make ends meet, I was welcomed with open arms and treated with overwhelming kindness and respect. I am excited to return to the community again this fall to visit my family and friends, work again with the Tandana Foundation, and continue to learn and grow in ways that are not possible without leaving the comforts of our own homes! Thank you, Anna and the Tandana Foundation, for the experience of a lifetime!
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Thanks so much for your feedback. Please let me know if I can help you with any more information, or if you have ideas about additional ways to spread the word. Going to Mali is an amazing experience. I've enjoyed working with the PCVs there.
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Anna Taft
Thanks for this valuable information. This web site is great.
Our kids have friends that have completed Peace Corp asignments in Mali, and continue to encourage everyone to do something similiar there.
Tandana Foundation sounds wonderful and certainly can help us achieve that goal.
Thanks so much for your feedback. Please let me know if I can help you with any more information, or if you have ideas about additional ways to spread the word.
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Anna Taft
I was blessed with the opportunity to share a geo-torism volunteer experience with Tandana in January 2009, Mali West Africa.
Something that will remain with me for many years. A marvelous, challenging and rewarding time for me. Not only a chance to meet and unite with a volunteer community of disparate North Americans and Europeans but the chance to be fully entrenched into a second family in the heart of Dogon country, the village of Kanshongo.
The honest, open-hearted joy and enthusiasm from the villagers who have so little and yet so much to give has left me with an ever-broadening perspective and daily benchmark of gratitude that no vacation brochure could ever put a price on. I continue to process the experience and am presently looking forward to receiveing a letter from one of my new village friends. The continents and miles melt away as we softly, gently reconnect the fractured pieces of the world. Thank you Tandana for this gift. I choose to carry forward the teachings to effect a greater real-world understanding for as many people as I may touch.
I was a participant in the Ecuador medical volunteer program this spring. This program is the real deal! The program leadership and philosophy educates its own volunteers about serving others in a way that honors and respects the assets of the community. Many of the participants were young and considering careers in medicine or human services. I'm glad this wise program was their introduction
This would truly be a gratifying and exciting experience. I look forward to learning more about Tandana. It gives me a whole new goal to reach for in life. I look forward to saving for a trip soon! Keep up the great work, Anna!
We love how this organization embraces a global, far-reaching 5,000-foot perspective when outlining its mission but quickly drops to five inches in terms of action programs, e.g., the sometimes lengthy cycle needed for cross-cultural understanding but also new reading glasses.
Similarly, including structural education enhancements along with international visitors promises longer-term, instutional advancements while offering very real, immediate paybacks from the visits.
Congratulations to you Anna on your amazing work. You remain an inspiration to us at Akili Dada!
-Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg
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Tandana invites participants to a new way of traveling the world. You are invited to become a part of the community where you are visiting. Each day brought us into the often ordinary daily experiences of new new friends half way around the globe. We learned how to fetch water from the well, how to swing a hoe while singing in unison with our friends from Kansangho and we walked miles in the bare foot steps of the women as we gathered fire wood from the sand dunes. We learned to experience the joy of trying local delicacies, tried our hands at various artistries such as weaving, mud cloth dying and indigo arts. We floated down the Niger River, touched the colorful fabrics in the markets, held our breath as we passed some of the booths in the market selling things I have never seen before, and found amazing new friends and family. Since experiencing travel the Tandana way, my new motto at home is "I want to live the way I travel."
I had the opportunity to participate in the Tandana Foundation's volunteer programs in Ecuador in 2008. Because of the long-term relationships of trust and mutual respect that Anna Taft and the Tandana Foundation have built in these communities over the past five years, I was able to have an unusually authentic experience. I lived and worked in a small indigenous community where I was the only foreigner. Although it is a poor community where families struggle to make ends meet, I was welcomed with open arms and treated with overwhelming kindness and respect. I am excited to return to the community again this fall to visit my family and friends, work again with the Tandana Foundation, and continue to learn and grow in ways that are not possible without leaving the comforts of our own homes! Thank you, Anna and the Tandana Foundation, for the experience of a lifetime!
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