Sarah Kanowski

And we thought, this is it.

This is our chance to... Come and run the school.

Yeah, come and run it and lead it and just transform it.

We believe in you.

Get yourself down to Dar es Salaam by bus and we'll meet you and this will be great.

We'll pay you $100 a month.

So at the border between Kenya and Tanzania, we finally get online and we Google the place we're about to move to, this township or slum, by another word.

And we find that it has the highest rates of malaria in Africa.

We find that the life expectancy is 40 years old.

We find that they estimate half of the population in that township are HIV positive.

We get picked up by this American lady and she starts to tell us about the school that we're gonna go and lead and transform as these 24 year olds.

And she tells us that the buildings are collapsing because they're full of white ants.

She tells us that the staff aren't turning up, but when they do turn up, they're drunk.

She tells us that the best they've ever got is a student into grade 10.

And we're thinking, okay, this sounds ominous already, but we get diverted that first afternoon.

We're driving in a car out to the school, and she gets a text message that one of the only boys who's come to school that day has actually beaten up the only drunk teacher who's turned up.

So we go and spend eight hours trying to get this boy out of jail, and finally we're driving into the township.

It's dark.

There's no power.

There's no running water.