Background

Today, unfortunately, most families cannot afford a private school education so the children are enrolled in public schools. This happens because public schools are free except for transports, food and accessories but this does not allow them to have a proper education.

The public system means that the children are taught in the native language, Swahili, during all the primary school. English is not used until the children advance to secondary school, after 8 years. Thus, the children will study different subjects as history, geography, mathematics, civics, social education, biology, chemistry in Swahili for most of their young age. Only once the children advance to secondary school they start to be taught in English meaning that they have only 4 years to master it in order to succeed the national exam. As a result most children fail, drop out of school or perform poorly.

Objective and program details

The main objective of the program is to find sponsors in order to support children education and health services.

With the help of the sponsors the children will be able to enroll in private schools where they will be given the proper education, they will be taught English from an early age and they will be followed in each step of their academic history. All this will happen on safe environment where they will be given the opportunity to also actively participate in the community.

What is a sponsor ?

The sponsor is someone willing to help a child through their studies in primary school for 7 years. This means that the child will be able to enroll and study in a private school giving them the opportunity to follow their studies and have a brighter future.

The sponsor will be asked to help the child paying an amount of USD$440 per year ( around USD$36 per month). The payment can be done every six months for an amount of USD$220 each.

The money will be used to cover all the tuition fee of the private school, uniforms and all the stationery needed for the year (pens, pencils, eraser, notebooks, etc.).

The sponsors will be able to receive any kind of information about the child and their education throughout the years in several ways:

• they will have the possibility to visit the child at his home place in order to get to know them and their families personally
• they will have the possibility to visit the house, the school and the village of the child
• they will be able to receive pictures at anytime
• they will be able to communicate directly with the children via letters through LITUs office

Project contacts

For any enquiry or more information about the program don’t hesitate to contact us:

E-mail: liftthemupfoundation@gmail.com

Phone number: +255752212503

Location: Kikatiti, Arusha. Tanzania.