EDUCATION OFFERS
STRUCTURAL BENEFITS
THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO BOOST DEVELOPMENT
LEARNING TO READ, WRITE AND DO MATHS IS A KEY STARTING POINT
INTRODUCTION
The Kamitei Foundation (“Kamitei”) is a non-religious charity that aims to make an effective contribution to the education of children in rural Tanzania through small scale investments in facilities and teaching aids and through the granting of individual scholarships.
We currently support 8 primary schools and 2 secondary schools in 4 rural communities in Northern Tanzania (Kilimatembo, Kainam, Irkeepus and Oltukai), reaching 3,500 children. Our Scholarship program has assisted close to 100 students so far.
Kamitei starts pilot food program in selected communities
We are happy to announce that in January 2019 we will start with a food program. Thanks to a new sponsor we can start a pilot for providing lunches for the students. Lunches are very important because of the nutritional value but also because we think...
Eagles Scholarship selection day yields another five outstanding candidates
In the last weekend of November we had a full day of exams to select the new crop of Eagle Scholarship students and we awarded five new scholarships. This time we saw a truly remarkable performance of the Oltukai community, winning 3 out of 5 scholarships! We...
Eagle Scholar Winnie receives government funded scholarship for top public school
One of our Eagle students, Winnie, graduated last September. As an Eagle Scholarship student she started at Kilimanjaro English Medium primary school in Arusha. There she ranked quite a few times as best of her class and then she went to Joyland Secondary school....
FOCUS
Our focus on education is based on the following beliefs:
- In the longer term, education has a strong positive impact on the standard of living of individuals and their communities;
- Education has important indirect benefits in areas such as health, birth control and empowerment of communities;
- The benefits of education tend to be structural and long lasting: it creates a virtuous circle.
Our field activities are based on multiple years of on-the-ground experience in rural Tanzania as to how education can be structurally improved in the most effective and efficient manner, whilst keeping overhead costs to a minimum. We use multiple approaches to reach our aim; we build school facilities, we supply desks, books and teaching aids, we provide housing, training and incentives to the teachers, etc. We don’t offer a ‘free ride’, however: the communities have to contribute themselves as well. This matching principle ensures that the communities are really committed to make things work.
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