From Tanzania with love
When Gemma Sisia talks, you listen. The affable Australian humanitarian speaks with enthusiasm as she tells the tale of leaving her homeland to start The School of St Jude in Arusha, Tanzania.
When Gemma Sisia talks, you listen. The affable Australian humanitarian speaks with enthusiasm as she tells the tale of leaving her homeland to start The School of St Jude in Arusha, Tanzania.
On the same day she graduated from university, Madeleine Kelly boarded a plane headed for Africa, to work in a school for underprivileged kids. After nearly six years in Tanzania she has now returned to Adelaide, grateful for the life-changing experience and armed with her first published book.
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Three years ago, at the age of 23, Maddie Kelly boarded a plane bound for Arusha, Tanzania, and began working in the School of St Jude. Here she writes about her experiences, including the impact of COVID-19 on the local community.
Students at St Aloysius College are helping to change the lives of the ‘brightest and poorest’ children in Tanzania, a school assembly heard last month.
One of the best things about my job is getting out to meet with people of all different ages and backgrounds, and to hear their more-often-than-not incredible stories.
As a student at St Aloysius College, Maddie Kelly was inspired by the work of Australian woman Gemma Sisia who established a school for poor children in Africa. Seven years later, Maddie is working alongside Gemma at the School of St Jude in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha.
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