Welcome to EdPowerment
While visitors challenge themselves on Mt. Kilimanjaro, many who live under its gaze face a very different climb every day: a struggle merely to survive.
Mission
EdPowerment provides transformative educational initiatives that enable otherwise discarded individuals to advance from meager subsistence to economic security and lives of promise.
Why EdPowerment
EdPowerment is hands-on. EdPowerment is personal. Our U.S. Board has worked on-the-ground in Tanzania since 2010 through multiple visits each year and extended stays. Our approach serves each individual - whether in our sponsorship program, seminars, or at our business center - in a way most beneficial to them, their circumstances and their goals. Because of this commitment, motivated individuals, once deprived of educational access, can take their rightful place as professionals and skilled workers.
Our Work Today
EDPOWERMENT BUSINESS INCUBATION CENTER
EBIC offers a select range of practical training programs not available within miles in this underserved district:
- Apprenticeships in carpentry, cookery, and tailoring
- Computer training for total beginners through advanced users
- A digital hub with on-site guidance
- English, business, financial, and local marketing instruction
- AI literacy and professional-habits coaching
Every program exists for one reason: to pave the way for self-sufficiency and 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.
Housed in the Center, WINGS offers a solution to this reality. Within our tailoring apprenticeship program, women learn a trade by producing reusable pads — then management delivers them, along with health education, to girls in 5 local schools. We refine every batch with feedback from students themselves, sourcing the most comfortable, effective materials and design.
In 2025, WINGS delivered 5,609 pads to 828 girls. Now we're expanding reach and building toward sustainability — selling pads at local marketplaces, community gathering spots, and organizations that serve female students and women in impoverished areas.
To learn more about WINGS:
HIGHER-EDUCATION SPONSORSHIPS:
Originally a long-term sponsorship program for talented students from secondary school through higher-education, today's sponsorships focus on shorter-term interventions. We assist exceptionally motivated young people in economic hardship to attend a variety of schools and programs that will best position them for income opportunities.
All-inclusive support - financial, personal, medical, emotional and practical skills - provides each member of our sponsorship "family" the chance to achieve a secure and fulfilling life.
August - 2025 BA in Architecture
Joshu- 2025 Diploma in Animal Production (with his father)
Juliana - 2025 B.A. in Accounting
Jenipher - 2023 Diploma in Pharmaceutical Studies
Joachim - 2023 BS in Electrical Engineering
2025 Tanzania's Newest Advocate (Lawyer)
Suzan - 2023 Bachelor of Education with Science
Jackson 2026 Medical Doctor
A printer changes everything at Namayani Primary
And at Msitu
Basic learning suppplies
Encouragement is the starting point at Dahani Secondary
Exposure to Study Skills at Msitu Wa Tembo Secondaru
How to learn - not just What to Learn
Our own Sponsored Students help during their breaks
Participate! A New Approach to Learning
Supplementing science at Dahani
RURAL GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SUPPORT
EdPowerment’s focus on marginalized students extends to several local schools that operate with few teachers and virtually no technology, instructional materials or learning resources.
We support each in a targeted way - special classes and seminars, teacher training, supplemental materials, to name a few - to energize students, build positive study skills and personal habits, and close subject-area gaps.
At the two secondary schools we assist, students now post higher National Exam scores. For many, that's the difference between an education that ends prematurely and one that leads to further studies and economic prospects.
MALNUTRITION PREVENTION PROGRAM:
EdPowerment undertook an emergency food relief program for malnourished students in 2022.
While some of the weather and related conditions of that year have subsided, we continue to coordinate with local educational and social service authorities to feed families of identified malnourished students in the villages we serve .
Endorsements & Funding
The programs EdPowerment supports have received key support from the following:
