A look back at 2022 In 2022, we were once again able to accomplish all our projects in Tanzania as planned and have every reason to look back with gratitude. In addition to the water filtration project in Naiti, we were able to hand over 11 Primary School projects to the Tanzanian government, who runs…
As my husband is a founding member of upendo, I have been aware of the development work of upendo and ECLAT for years. It was only at the beginning of September that I was able to listen to Catherine Maguzu’s reports on her women’s work at ECLAT at the upendo information event.
In this newsletter, we would like to present some of ECLAT’s newer projects which, except for the first one, fall under the heading of “capacity building”. This includes ECLAT’s women’s empowerment work, but we have reported on this many times before.
In 2021, we were once again able to implement all our projects in Tanzania as planned, despite the Corona pandemic. And after 1½ years we have been able to travel to Tanzania again to visit the old and new projects and to discuss them in detail on site.
In this information letter we would like to introduce ECLAT’s and upendo`s education work with an up-to-date overview of our projects undertaken this year.
We would like to dedicate this information letter to the women empowerment at ECLAT.
Last year, despite the Corona pandemic, we were able to implement all our projects in Tansania as planned. In this newsletter we report mainly on the school and education projects. ECLAT’s work with women is only briefly touched upon, but will be the main topic in the next newsletter. We also report briefly on the…
HANDOVER OF THE NEW PRIMARY SCHOOL IN EMBOREET At the end of September, ECLAT handed over the new Lenaitunyo Primary School in Emboreet to the district government, the authority responsible for running the school. At the beginning of 2020, Chrismon magazine had reported in an article by photojournalist Claudio Verbano about the school girl…
School Education in Tanzania The school system in Tanzania is influenced by the English school system from the colonial period. The “Primary School” has 7 year classes (apart from the one year kindergarten which is compulsory today). Those who pass the final exams well qualify for secondary school. This lasts 4 years up to the…
PENDO’S LONG WAY TO SCHOOL Excerpt from the report: Long Walk Home by Claudio Verbano Fog lies over the savannah landscape near the Tarangire National Park in Tanzania. It is 4 o’clock in the morning, two hours to go until sunrise. There is no sound to be heard in the small Maasai settlement, inhabitants…