August of 2023, a team from Canada ventured to Tanzania, East Africa, for a couple weeks to join the work of EastARM along the Rufiji River. In that time they taught in three different village schools, kindergarten to grades 7, fed hundreds of meals to hungry kids, experienced the true...

ADOPT A VILLAGE | DINNER CLUB A cool thing is happening in the Rufiji: land is being granted to develop ‘Dinner Clubs’ for the children and their families in villages dotting the tribe’s river! We sent out ten letters in total, containing ten proposals to Mloka Village, Mwaseni, Mibuyusaba, Msona,...

Across the villages that line the wild Rufiji River, though infrastructure is scarce, the thread that ties all the communities together is their love of the ‘beautiful game’. Called football on one side of the ocean, soccer on the other, each Rufiji village in Tanzania has a team. Baker &...

Two thousand eighteen was a big year for East Africa River Mission at Baker & Sons Safari Company, Rufiji River, Tanzania. A group from Canada (Chatham, Ontario) came to see an entire house built for a local family – husband, wife, and their 6 boys! Before making the 13,000 km...

At Christmas, 2017, a tractor was presented to the village of Mloka, in fulfilment of a promise made by Baker & Sons Safari Company to the farmers of the area. Rufiji District officials were on hand to accept the tractor, as were the media to record the day. The whole...

Late in 2016 East Africa River Mission finished construction of a playground in a Rufiji District village called ‘Mloka’. Mloka is last village at the end of a 100km bush road, the Final Outpost before the Great Selous Game Reserve, and where Baker & Sons Safari Company operates on the...