Recent Highlights

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August, a 4th year student pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture degree, presents the community center that he conceptualized and designed to fellow sponsored students on break this September.

At our Saturday Boys & Girls Club at the isolated Dahani Secondary School, students learn practical skills that they can use after graduation to improve their living situations and income potential: For example, how to make electrical connections; how to prepare good food from local ingredients for home or sale; how to mix better feed for healthier livestock.

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Our after-school skills seminars turn the focus to how students can better prepare for and perform on critical national exams – providing information not even known to teachers in these remote settings. The goal is that more can now qualify for college studies.

The Uwama Women’s Small Business Group has shown great progress – recently taking their soap to more local markets, anticipating a small profit that they will share at year-end – critical money for their families.

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Gladness celebrates her birthday and leaves for college to obtain a Diploma in Clinical Medicine. Gladness’s story is one of remarkable courage, as she and her mother walked miles to her village’s ward office, to appeal for help when her brother had formed an agreement to marry her. Resistance was fierce from some members of her family, but EdPowerment’s team succeeded in bringing her to Moshi, offering her needed training in English and computers, and life skills. In September, Gladness celebrated her birthday and shortly afterwards left for college – a feat that NO WOMAN has ever achieved in her community. Now her family is on board.