From a report by Bridget Withell on her visit to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
In August 2002 O.S. sent a container to Women in Action, a project in a poor, predominantly Muslim suburb run by 15 local Christians.  The container has been established within a secure compound on a concrete base, with a corrugated roof.  Doors and windows have been cut, electricity supplies put in and partitions used to divide the space up into a very small office, a nursery school and a sewing class.  The nursery school is rather cramped but accommodates 25 children aged 3 - 6 years.  The older children attend in the morning, and the younger ones in the afternoon.  The furniture in the schoolroom came from the UK in the container.  The sewing class trains 6 or 7 students in mchine embroidery and simple dressmaking skills using mostly treadle sewing machines, many of which also came with the container.  The skilled teaching is given voluntarily by one of the project members.
From Margaret Mpango, Tanzania
"Thank you for the materials, sewing machines, crafts and so many things.  It has helped a lot to the women and sewing classes.  You have been an example to our Diocese in Tanzania."