Our Latest News

March 2025: Between September and March, Kamitei Foundation supporters Tom Claeren and Yanniek Peters spent time at several Kamitei-supported primary schools in Northern Tanzania to observe the Kamitei Internships for Teaching Excellence (KITE) program in action.

March 2025: Kamitei Foundation is delighted to share the inspiring story of three recently graduated scholars who excelled in their national examinations thanks to the quality education they received through their Eagle Scholarships.

March 2025: The Kamitei Internships for Teaching Excellence (KITE) program is making significant strides in addressing the severe teacher shortage and quality of teaching in the primary schools that it supports across Tanzania.

March 2025: In the last week of February, Niels Claeren, a Kamitei board member since 2010, embarked on a visit to Tanzania with his daughter to catch up with the Kamitei Foundation team on the ground.

December 2018: We are happy to announce that thanks to the generous support of a new sponsor, in January 2019 we will start a pilot food program to provide lunches for students.

November 2018: On the last weekend in November, Kamitei held a full day of examinations to select the new crop of Eagle Scholarship students and excitingly, we awarded five new scholarships.

September 2018: One of our Eagle scholars, Winnie, graduated from secondary school last September having successfully won a Tanzanian Government Scholarship to Joyland Girls Secondary School, one of the top schools in Tanzania.

June 2018: Kamitei's Field Education Officer, Bill, recently attended a meeting with the District and Province Education Officers during which they told Bill that they observe a big difference in their region between Kamitei supported schools and non-Kamitei supported schools.

February 2018: On Thursday 1st February, we held our annual event in Amsterdam at the HQ of Newzoo to give our supporters in the Netherlands an update from Jeroen and Ageeth on Kamitei's progress during 2017 and our plans for 2018.

December 2017: In December we welcomed an important new sponsor to our network for the next three years. Globewise Foundation is a Dutch NGO focusing primarily on supporting a variety of projects in primary education, secondary education and vocational education in developing countries.

November 2017: In early November, eight students were awarded an Eagle Scholarship to start at a boarding school in Arusha next January thanks to our new Belgian sponsors.

November 2017: In November, we had our 'almost traditional' annual handout of tennis balls to students at Kamitei supported schools. A highlight of this ritual was our visit to Irkeepus School located in a Maasai community near Ngorongoro Crater.