This photo shows a meeting between UPAWA and the village council of Mlilayoyo Primary School to discuss the commencement of renovation of Girls' toilets at Mlilayoyo Primary school.
Background
This is one of the current projects that we are implementing in a rural public primary school in the Namtumbo village where the community struggled to renovate the toilets for over three years without success. We are in collaboration with other education stakeholders and have started a campaign of renovating it. The total budget is $9,800 whereby the toilets will involve a water system and doors and windows to maintain privacy for girls, something that is missing in most rural primary schools. At the moment Sports Works International NGO from Toronto Canada donated $315 and we have started renovation in the initial stages.
Current source of water at Mawa Primary school
Background
The project costs $20,231.67 that has the primary focus of helping school children to walk 1.5 km going to fetch some water and another 1.5 km going back to school searching for water in Mawa Primary school in Namtumbo district. It will also will serve the children from using unsafe water from unsafe sources that can also be used by animals in the dry season. This project will also serve the community around which a water system will also be distributed to the nearest health center which borders the school. Still facing different donors who can help this community with the current calamities.
Tree planting event at Mawa Primary school in Namtumbo district to impart love for the environment to the children.
Background
This is the program implemented at Mawa Primary school with the purpose of sensitizing young environmentalists to take part in environmental conservation processes. It went together with the planting of 200 trees in the school compound that are now kept with the pupils. This project has imparted love to the environment that the children are growing with it. We are planning to reach more schools in 2023 with the support of other organizations that are working with environmental issues internationally.
Background
Working with AiGoLearning and Mshangano secondary school, which is in Songea Municipal in Ruvuma region. This will be conducted online with the teachers from AiGoLearning under the STEM for All initiative. AiGoLearning is a NGO based in the United States aimed at providing fun, high-quality, and virtual coding classes to students. Under their STEM for All initiative, they are providing these coding classes, for free, to underprivileged students throughout the world, and we are grateful to partner with them under this initiative. Our organization will organize students and learning materials like computers and a projector. AiGoLearning will provide the class curriculum and teachers to teach the class virtually through Zoom. Although there are scarce materials to be used, students and pupils are eager to learn about this. This has the vision of helping the young children to have IT technology as added values to their education and apply the knowledge in their life. We are attracting more international NGOs to partner with us in this as we are lacking enough facilities like computers to enable learners to interact with teachers easily.
Background
The organization is doing gender and sex education to the learners who are experiencing biological changes at first. This include educating them on how they can cope with these biological changes without affecting their classes, how they should be care with sexual industries to abscond from early pregnancies that can affect them in future. This has been implemented in Songea municipality in primary and secondary schools. We are planning to expand in the other regions since the problem is the same in other regions of the Tanzania mainland.
Background
This is to support children with the school necessities in primary and secondary schools including uniforms and stationeries. This comes as the results of the free education policy that was implemented by the government of Tanzania, still there are children who can’t afford to get these basic needs to enable them to attend school. Still we need support from other stakeholders in this by donating any amount or sponsoring a child by contacting us.