The first official meeting is a courtesy call to the Regional Commissioner Magesa Mulongo in Arusha. Discussed issues are climate change and the current situation in the region.
Afterwards Mr. Heiderich is invited to visit the new EAC-Building. Everything is explained in model...
… and by the real construction by Architect Dipl. Ing. Jens Malte Neuhaus.
On the next day a working breakfast deals with the issues of landgrabbing and climate change in the region. The experts, Jörg Gabriel and Geoffrey Mwanjela, provide plenty of input.
Right afterwards the small delegation inspects a KfW-funded water project in Moshi district - here you see the Kiuo Hill Tank.
Mr. Heidrich also visits several villages and gets an insight in the water-pump system at the Artesian-source.
People in a villiage show proudly how they mangage their water consumption.
A Massai woman honours Mr. Heiderich with a gift - typical Massai decoration.
Dinner and discussion with members of the KAS partner party CHADEMA, here with CHADEMA-founder Edwin Mtei (left) and Director of Administration and Finance, Anthony Komu.
On the last day Heiderich visits the German research project "Kilimanjaro". The project with a duration of three years is located on the hillside of Mt. Kilimanjaro. With a short presentation the researchers inform about their project in theory…
… and also very practical in the project owned garden. The students demonstrate Mr. Heiderich their different experiments with plants, the composition of the soil and how they "catch" fog with a special machine.
At the end of his stay Mr. Heiderich visits the oldest Christian Church in Tanzania - including the original German bells.