worth keeping in her culture while letting go of practices that no longer fit. Maria's Story For the Love of Teaching by Arlene McKechnie Maria is one of the girls that TEMBO sponsored to attend Secondary School. Then she wanted to be a teacher, so we sponsored her at the Tanzanian equivalent of Teacher's College. Just after she had completed her education, we met Maria in the village. She was waiting to start her first teaching assignment in January in another village. She was quite shy, spoke to us very deferentially, and was just sort of hanging out...having her hair braided, painting her toenails blue. In many ways she was still a school girl. We met Maria again about 6 months later, when she was home on a break. By this time, she had been teaching for three months. Maria had a new quiet confidence, a new intensity, an earnestness. She spoke to us about her school and some of the problems that she was facing. The most difficult problem was that the village where she was teaching had a serious outbreak of typhoid. Many people were sick, so they had to miss their work or their school. She wondered if we knew of anything that you could just put in the water to get rid of the typhoid. Boiling the water is just too expensive. You have to have fuel for the fire: sticks or kerosene. When we asked her about her classes, her face lit up. She was