From Support to Shared Effort in Tanzania

Expanding access to quality education so communities have the skills and opportunity to shape their own futures is a key pillar within our impact agenda. We believe education creates opportunity and agency, giving people the freedom to shape their own futures. In rural Tanzania, that often starts with supporting the learning environment. Last year, working with Kamitei Foundation, we directly supported over 20,000 primary school children, addressing educational needs through books, teacher training, and funding salaries of additional teachers to improve teacher-student ratios, as well as the provision of desks across 57 primaries schools, a 73 percent increase on the previous year.

This week, a group of multi-repeat guests and long-standing funding supporters joined us at two of the schools we support. While we no longer offer clients traditional school visits, recognising that they can disrupt learning and reinforce inequality, through our long-term partnerships these schools extended an invitation, to welcome this small group of long-standing supporters.

Together with teachers and students, they organised sports activities, prepared lunches, and repaired more than 60 desks. There was laughter, sawdust, and shared effort. The children were proud to show their classrooms. Our guests were equally energised, working alongside the community rather than observing from the side lines, in a way that was practical, purposeful, and built on genuine relationships.

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