Earlier this month, the husband and team at EGL were very happy to welcome some visitors from the United States, and provide them with a tour of our little garment manufacturing operation in Bukoba.
The visitors included: Dr Pamela Sawa from the Ministry of Health & Social Welfare, Smart Baitani (Co-founder of COSAD), Dr Susan McCormick Hadley (COSAD USA board member), Brittany Leitch, country director of COSAD TZ, and Pastor Ben Swanson (COSAD USA Board member). Their visit coincided with the Grand Opening of several Bukoba based projects run by COSAD, namely the COSAD Clinic, the Imuka Recording Lounge and the Bukoba Business Lounge. All fantastic achievements. So we were indeed fortunate that they were able to spare some time to fit us into their otherwise very, very busy schedule.
COSAD is a Minnesota based non-profit organisation founded to build partnerships that create sustainable community development through the support of projects involving micro-enterprise, health, education and culture in Tanzania, thus empowering Tanzanians to become economically independent. Each project will be run as a local, private business for profit, to support COSAD's other existing programs and goals. For more information on, or better still to support a COSAD initiative, click on the links.
The visitors were impressed by the EGL crew and made very positive comments about the quality of our garments, and the conditions in which EGL employees work. At the same time they were appreciative of our efforts to provide training, employment opportunities and some kind of economic security for our staff. And we, as usual, were proud of our team.
