About

I’m a Canadian living and working in Dar es Salaam. This blog is my effort to document my experience, with a focus on the small experiences, which when combined will hopefully provide a sense of the city and life within it. My posts encapsulate many of the details of life in Dar that go overlooked when writing travel blogs or recounting personal experiences. Expect to see the people I deal with, the places I eat, the stores I shop at and other, perhaps seemingly random, details that I feel help to shape Dar & make it the hectic, yet overwhelmingly friendly place it is.

I’ve come to Dar to work with Equality for Growth (EfG), a Tanzanian NGO seeking to empower women working in the informal sector through creating markets free of gender based violence, where women can operate on an equal footing with men. My role, as an resource mobilization/ monitoring and evaluation officer, is providing me an opportunity to see and learn, while also (hopefully) making a meaningful contribution to EfG.

I’m also intently working on my Swahili so I encourage those of you reading from Tanzania to test it out by commenting on my posts in Swahili and seeing if I can answer in any sort of comprehensible fashion (I hope so!)