Welcome to EdPowerment
While visitors challenge themselves on Mt. Kilimanjaro, many who live under its gaze face a very different kind of climb every day. Individuals born into poverty beneath the majestic mountain struggle to access education that can take them from meager subsistence to economic security - the ability to cover essential needs of food, shelter, hygiene, clothing and health care.
Mission
Anchored in Moshi, Tanzania, EdPowerment provides transformative educational support and programs that help otherwise discarded individuals to advance in the educational system, workplace and society in order to achieve secure, fulfilling lives.
Why EdPowerment
EdPowerment is a powerful way for those who have benefitted from educational opportunities to create such pathways for the least fortunate. Our U.S. Board has worked on-the-ground in Tanzania since 2010 through multiple visits each year and extended stays. Our hands-on commitment has enabled motivated young people once deprived of educational access to take their rightful place as professionals and skilled workers.
Our Work Today
EDPOWERMENT BUSINESS INCUBATION CENTER
As 2026 fires up, EBIC (EdPowerment Business Incubation Center) has solidified its unique and invaluable services to the surrounding community in Siha, Kilimanjaro. The Center combines apprenticeships in carpentry, cookery and tailoring with a computer training program, digital hub, and the Wings for Confident Women (WCW or nicknamed WINGS) reusable pad program.
This enterprise, not replicated anywhere nearby, offers a wide spectrum of “clients” 16 years and older a way to advance economically, regardless of their formal education and economic background. Rather, what participants need is motivation, curiosity, discipline, purpose and determination.
In addition to specific vocational and computer skills, participants learn conversational English, business/financial practices, digital and local marketing, and professional behaviors and habits. The goal is self-sufficiency in a life of dignity.
To learn more about the cookery, carpentry and tailoring vocational skills programs, click here:
To learn more about the IT Computer training and service hub, click here:
WINGS FOR CONFIDENT WOMEN (WCW)
The menstrual cycle is a major reason for female absence from school in communities such as Siha. Unable to purchase monthly supplies, most local female students rely on improvised materials – these can be rags… they can even be hardened dung in some of the area’s Maasai groups.
WINGS offers a unique answer to this situation. Within a broader tailoring program, apprentices learn how to produce the pads while the staff manages a distribution and health education program in 5 local schools. We continue to improve our pads with feedback from students as we source the most comfortable and effective materials possible.
In 2026, we are building on 2025’s delivery of 5609 pads to 828 female students by launching a marketing program that promotes the pads at local marketplaces, community gathering places, and to other organizations that service female students.
To learn more about WINGS:
HIGHER-EDUCATION SPONSORSHIPS:
Originally called "Tomorrow's Student- Leader Sponsorships," this long-term sponsorship program has been the capstone of EdPowerment's transformative work. All-inclusive support - financial, emotional, medical, personal, practical and life skill - has provided each member of our "family" the best chance at achieving a secure and fulfilling life. Today over 40 young adults are making their mark in the Tanzanian workforce - college and university graduates. We continue our mentorship today. Learn more.
Adelina - 2023 BA in Accounting
Jenipher - 2023 Diploma in Pharmaceutical Studies
Joachim - 2023 BS in Electrical Engineering
Joseph - 2023 Doctor of Medicine
2024 Post-Graduate Degree in Law Practice
Suzan - 2023 Bachelor of Education with Science
2023 - Post Graduate Degree in Law Practice
Flora - 2023 BA in Human Resources
Jackson – 2024 Doctor of Medicine
MALNUTRITION PREVENTION PROGRAM:
EdPowerment has formalized its food relief intervention begun in 2022. Coordinating with local educational and social service authorities, we now feed students and families where extreme hunger exists in the villages we serve . Learn more.
WOMEN'S SMALL BUSINESS INITIATIVE:
In the SIHA district outside of Moshi, we provide seed money and mentor the UWAMA women's group, as they develop a business of liquid and bar soap. Fighting cultural limitations, these brave women have come together to earn money that will enable a more stable life for their children. Learn more.
Impact
Our capstone program, Higher Education Sponsorships, continues it's life-changing mission today (see above). Today's other pivotal programs build on the insight, knowledge and experience gained from two of EdPowerment's core projects during its first decade of operations.
Completed Projects: Their Enduring Legacy
Kilimahewa Educational Center
(KIWOCE) Open School
This oasis of low-cost, high-quality skills courses, a secondary school equivalency program, IT instruction, library and other resources provided opportunity & motivation for hundreds of underserved students.
Connects Autism Tanzania
EdPowerment's funding, guidance and managerial oversight opened doors for societal acceptance and educational inclusion of those with autism and other cognitive disabilities.
Endorsements & Funding
The programs EdPowerment supports have received key support from the following:
