Building hostels for students (especially girls) to be safe and successful.
Let's build hostels for students for Tsaayo Secondary School. Donations of any size help. Large donations will be recognized with a plaque.
Middle school children preparing for the National Exam that decides if they can go to high school are true heroes! Children preparing for the National Exam at the end of middle school must leave their homes to live at school in order to be free from household chores and focus on their studies. But Tanzanian middle schools do not have facilities for overnighting.
In rich countries, requiring children to stay at school without living quarters would be unthinkable. At many Tanzanian Schools, however, boys and girls sleep on the concrete floor of separate classrooms. Only a few parents can afford mattresses for their children. Most children sleep on cardboard spread out on the hard, cold concrete.
They bring a single trunk for their belongings. The shower is an open space screened off by iron sheets; the shower floor consists of rocks scattered on the ground to minimize mud.
The poor conditions disproportionately affect girls.
Very often, girl students are prevented by their parents from staying at school due to the lack of a hostel. This harms their ability to pass National Exam. The alternative is to walk the school daily. But this means leaving home early in the morning, which is dangerous for girls.
A secondary school hostel will enable many more local children, especially girls, to successfully complete secondary school and continue their studies. It will dramatically improve the student’s performance in the National Exam, ensure girls have an equal opportunity to succeed as the boys, eliminate the dangerous, long walk to school, and, above all, allow them to no longer have to sleep on the floor.
The hostel will host 128 boys and 128 girls.
Let's help them.
Donations of any size are welcome.
Thank you!