Education for Tomorrow

Children in a Tanzanian school

Education is an important pillar in our approach to empower the people of Tanzania. 


Empower Tanzania is facilitating the education of today's young Tanzanians to become stronger leaders in the future, providing greater economic possibilities for men and women, and a sustainable improvement in standard of living throughout the society.

We work hard to ensure that previously disadvantaged groups such as girls, handicapped and ethnic minorities have an equal opportunity to receive quality education. 

Current Focus Areas in Education
  • Education for Orphans and Youth
  • Vocational Training
  • Capacity for community and self-driven rural development
 
Kids' Club: Mack's Story

Mack's story: Kid's ClubThis is Mack (pronounced mock), and this is her story.

She is 12 years old and lives in the village of Mramba, Tanzania. She comes from a very poor family and was selected as a “vulnerable child” by a village committee because her father is dead and her mother is ill. Mack wants to go to school, but there is no money for that.

Mack is one of 50 vulnerable children selected for the Kids’ Club in Mramba. In this project developed by ETI with funding from the Des Moines Rotary Club, children from ages 7 to 12 meet every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. for a program of life skills training, projects and games. They are taught by three women from the village who attended a nearby college for a four-week program in child development. The kids eat breakfast and lunch at the school, which hosts the program. For many of the kids, these are the only meals they will get that day.

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Kid's Club

The Children's Club pilot program in Mramba will provide life skills education for 50 children. lEmpower Tanzania is partnering with the Des Moines Rotary Club and St. John's Lutheran Church in Des Moines to provide an educational program for vulnerable children in the villlage of Mramba, Tanzania.  The $3,000 budget will pay for a weekly program of education in life skills for 50 children in the village.

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Education for AIDS Orphans

AIDS orphans who receive scholarships near Mwanga, TanzaniaEducation provides a brighter future!  No one knows this better than the millions of HIV/AIDS orphans in Tanzania.  When parents die of HIV/AIDS, the children's futures are bleak.  Education allows them to rise above their circumstances and gives them hope, which inspired the Mwanga Lutheran Parish, and Peace Lutheran Church in Pella, Iowa, to begin an Orphan Education Project in 2002.

It began by providing uniforms and shoes to primary school students, and tuition to secondary and trade school students. They have helped an average of about 350 primary school students each year. The number of secondary and trade school students has increased from around 45 in 2002 to over 150 in 2008, which has prompted them to seek a partnership with Empower Tanzania to make this very successful program more sustainable.

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