Educate 500 Orphans and Needy Children in Tanzania

Summary

This project will provide grants enabling schools in rural Tanzania to keep 500 orphans and vulnerable children in school by paying for uniforms, supplies or fees needed to continue their education. progress report read updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

In rural areas of Africa, a small amount of money to pay for school uniforms, school supplies, and exam fees often makes all the difference between a child staying in school or dropping out. In rural communities, Camfed's Safety Net Fund helps children who are orphaned, or from child-headed households.This project enables schools in the Kilosa district of rural Tanzania to meet the pressing needs of 500 children at risk of dropping out, providing security and hope.

Activities

Safety Net grants empower primary and secondary schools to address the neediest children's difficult circumstances as they arise - often for as little as $10-20 per child - thus helping more children stay in school and continue their education.

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will meet school costs for 500 orphans and vulnerable children, enabling the neediest children in a community to obtain the education crucial to improving their long-term prospects and supporting their own future families.

Project Message

"Support to continue my education will help me achieve my goals, like being a doctor or a minister. At the end of the day, I have been helped, and I will help others."
- Innocent, from Iringa, Tanzania, Safety Net Fund beneficiary

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Brooke Hutchinson,
Director
369 Pine St
Suite 420
San Francisco, CA 94104
United States
415-963-4489
Email:

Project Sponsor

Skoll Foundation

Organisation

Campaign for Female Education (Camfed)
369 Pine St. Suite 420
San Francisco, CA 94104
United States
(415) 963-4489
http://www.camfed.org

Learn more about Campaign for Female Education (Camfed) and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Tanzania, United Republic of and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Tanzania, United Republic of, read the Human Development Report on Tanzania, United Republic of or the Wikipedia entry for Tanzania, United Republic of.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 23, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 28, 2008.

Latest Update from the Field

"To be able to show up with the proper books and shoes makes me feel better about going to school"

By Tanya Johnston - Development Officer, February 03, 2010 05:44 PM

Building on successful work in Iringa and Kilolo Districts since 2007, Camfed is delighted to have secured additional support to extend its reach and impact in Tanzania in 2009. Camfed’s education program was recently launched in Kilosa and Kilombero Districts and the investment creates vital security to enable a cohort of girls to complete school as well as supporting innovative work to empower students to lead improvements in the school environment.

After 5 years of successful adapting and implementing our best practice in girls’ education and young women’s economic empowerment program in Tanzania, Camfed Tanzania is poised to substantially increase its impact and reach. An extensive baseline survey conducted in 2008 confirmed the impact of the program to date and provides robust data to direct program strategy going forward.

Drawing on findings from the baseline survey and consultations with community and government partners, Camfed Tanzania has prepared its 2009 --- 2013 Strategic Plan, which charts an ambitious path for growth and innovation in the future. Camfed Tanzania is seeking to significantly extend girls’ education and young women’s leadership opportunities in Tanzania.

With the specific help of GlobalGiving donors, we have been able to send more young women to school by providing them shoes, uniforms, and exam fees to ensure they do not drop out of school.

The young vulnerable children we've helped support are like Jonas whose father died when he was only seven and his mother works in the city to provide for their family. “ Two days a week, I have to skip school to work in the market selling vegetables. It is disappointing to miss classes because I worry that I won’t be prepared to take my secondary school exams so that I can continue my education."

Jonas' classmates put him forward for the Safety Net Fund. They knew that he was struggling because he was going to school with bare feet, and no exercise books.

"When I returned to school after being away for some days, my teacher told me that Camfed was going to supply me with a new uniform and books. I felt so good, because I could see that it would really change my situation. To be able to show up with the proper books and shoes makes me feel better about going to school."

Education is the most sound investment you can make towards the eradication of poverty, and Camfed's work is helping secure a better future for these children and their communities.

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