EdUKaid's Mission

Our mission is to empower sustainable change through community led education for all in Rural Tanzania we believe in equality in education.

HAKI SAWA KIELIMU: Equality in Education 

   

EdUKaid's Vision

To create educational communities which foster dignity, trust and inclusion.

UTI, UAMINIFU, NA UJUMUISHI: Dignity Trust and Inclusion

   

EdUKaid's Values

• Community led - JAMII - Local management by Tanzanian staff in partnership with Tanzanian trustees and government officials

• Sustainability - UENDELEVU - Cited projects monitored to ensure completed delivery and designed to achieve lasting change

• Equality - USAWA - Careful matching of UK equal opportunities practice to Tanzanian Customs and laws 

• Inclusion - UJUMUiSHI  - Promoting inclusion in all that we do 

• Collaboration - USHIRIKIANO - Engagement with other charities and NGOs with common interests and shared values. 

   

   

Goals

Put simply, our goals are to:

• Engage the communities we work with, head teachers, parents and children
• Research projects and pilot them
• Work within local government and education structures to complement their aims
• Facilitate networking and collaboration across schools
• Empower local people
• Implement simple changes that can have a lasting impact

In 2024, EdUKaid Tanzania worked hard to give more children the chance to learn and grow. We continued to support and manage 10 Pre-Primary Satellite Classes, built and opened 4 community libraries in primary schools, and provided pre primary education in 15 partner  Schools. We also gave extra learning support to pupils at our Community Learning Centre.

These achievements were only possible because of the support from our donors, the teamwork between EdUKaid staff in the UK and Tanzania, and the strong partnership with education officers, community development officers, parents, head teachers, and teachers.

On behalf of EdUKaid Tanzania, I sincerely thank everyone who helped us make 2024 a successful year.

Emmanuel Sanga, EdUKaid Programme Director Tanzania

   

Safeguarding and Sustainability

The safeguarding of those we work with, especially children and young people, sits at the heart of all of our projects and is paramount to our work. EdUKaid is considered a leading organisation with regard to safeguarding in Mtwara and has been highly influential in improving stakeholder safeguarding practices across the districts in which we operate. 

   

Sustainability

We aim to ensure that as many of our projects as possible are managed and run long-term by communities, making them sustainable and effective. This year we worked with 21,000 community members in rural communities across Mtwara Region to support training and setting up of community committees to oversee development. We have also trained parents in making school and learning materials for preprimary classes and to support home learning for children with disabilities.

On a regional level, in 2024 we collaborated with government, education and community officers to implement and sustain our projects. This ensures that projects have local and regional buy-in and support.

   

Our History

In 2003 a young Salisbury man, Tim Dench, was volunteering in Mtwara teaching English in local primary schools as part of his gap year. Struck by the extreme poverty experienced by families and the desperate lack of education, Tim came back to Salisbury and encouraged family, friends, teachers and businesses to help as a result EdUKaid was formed.

   

   

EdUKaid initially focused on supporting individual children to access an education through the child sponsorship project these children had been orphaned due to the harsh reality of Aids; and their extended families were unable to pay the fees required to send children to school at that time.  In an attempt to support local primary schools we set up a volunteer programme recruiting young adults from the UK to spend time teaching English and generally supporting local primary schools.

Overtime, we witnessed the negative impact that these neglected schools were having on the children and recognised the need to invest in improving the physical learning environment. We also saw the desperate need to provide an education to the youngest schoolchildren who were turning up every day but with no hope of an education. Working closely with local stakeholders, we set up our school improvement and pre-primary projects renovating our first primary school and opening our first pre-primary class in 2009. We quickly saw the incredible difference this made thanks to our supporters, we have now renovated 20 primary schools opened 15 pre-primary classes and supported over 300 teachers and head teachers to develop their skills. 

Following a review EdUKaid has committed to reaching more children with a focus on:

• those at greatest risk of dropping out of school
• those further disadvantaged because of attitudes towards gender and disability
• continuing to work in partnership with schools, policy makers and local people to ensure that our projects are responding to local need
• continuing to empower communities to develop long-term sustainable solutions to the challenges they face. 

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