Secondary School Graduation Ceremony This year the graduation ceremony for the school leavers of the secondary school in Emboreet took place October, 20. Since the exams are carried out at the same time and are centrally evaluated, the results are only available months later. This year, the graduation ceremony for the students took place even…
This newsletter has its focus on current developments in the two main pillars of our work in Tanzania: the establishment of a secondary school in Emboreet and the women’s projects of our partner organization ECLAT. In the following newsletters we will inform again about the other projects. Graduation at the Secondary School School-leaving examinations took place…
Celebrating school graduation The examinations for the final year students of Emboreet secondary school took place in November last year; in Tanzania there are statewide appointed times for carrying out examinations. Since the evaluation takes place on a central level and since the results are only available months later the graduation celebrations usually take already…
Secondary school in Emboreet My last trip to Tanzania in August this year focused on a visit to the secondary school in Emboreet. Thanks to the financial support of the Foundation for Care and Education the construction work made remarkably good progress. The laboratory building had been nearly completed by the community. According to our…
Construction of a Secondary School: Co-operation instead of freebies They must not get the impression that it is us who devise a project from A to Z and then present the complete plan. Therefore when the secondary school was built we pointed out over and over again that we can build the school only…
The Maasai people did not attribute much significance on education in the past. They belong to the most backward and economically disadvantaged people in Tanzania. The cultural pressure – particularly on women – as well as the conviction that education leads to a loss of culture and a break with traditions are among the main…
THE PLIGHT OF MAASAI EDUCATION The ethnic group of the Maasai has been indifferent towards education and today they consequently belong to one of the most backward and economically most underprivileged sections of the Tanzanian population. The existing cultural conventions among Maasai women and the conviction that culture and traditions tend to derogate through education…
WATER FOR EMBOREET The registered charity supports the initiative of a Maasai family to establish a secondary school in their remote village Emboreet (Simanjiro-Dis-trict, Tanzania) and to strengthen the position of women in Maasai society through women`s projects. Toima and Philomena Kiroya are the only members of their family who attended school and thanks to…
With our first newsletter we want to provide you with some background information on the ECLAT project in Tanzania. upendo was originally founded for the support of this project which we will present in this newsletter. Subsequently we will give account about who we are, about our network in Tanzania and we will explain the…