ABSTRACT
This study presents the voices of community members in Mwanza, Tanzania, where a group of Canadian university students lived for 3-6 months in 2012 while participating in a university-based international service learning (ISL) initiative. In 2004, consultations between Johnstone University and Wanawake, a Tanzanian women’s rights organization, led to the establishment of a women-run community kitchen to produce and sell probiotic yogurt. The East Africa Program (EAP) began as a knowledge and technology transfer initiative whereby knowledge concerning setting up kitchens, procedures for making the yogurt, and business and marketing skills were transferred from the university through ISL students and faculty members to the Tanzanian women at Wanawake.1 Since 2005, over 80 Johnstone graduate students have gone to East Africa to participate in ISL internships related to various projects associated with the EAP. This study focuses on the impact of one cohort of students on the Tanzanian host communities where they completed their internships in 2012.
