Provide Science Labs for Tanzania Secondary School

Dear Project Wezesha Supporters,

Thank you so much for diving right in and joining us to launch our new initiative to equip Amahoro Secondary School with science labs. With these labs, students can actually experience science! When we think back to our science lab days in high school, we might recall very vague memories about beakers, dissection, chemical reactions and cool experiments that demonstrated physics, chemistry, and biology. Imagine trying to grasp all of that with nothing but the words from your teacher's mouth written on a board.

Two of our current high school students, Dibeit and Tumsifu, are currently studying a PCB (Physics, Chemistry, and Biology) combination, with the hope of attending medical school one day. These two scored well enough on their primary school exit exams to be selected for private, boarding secondary schools in Dar es Salaam and Dodoma respectively. The advantage they had over their peers who remained in the Kigoma region was that they were able to use equipment and have hands-on experience with science! Thanks to this chance to see science in action, they not only did well on their exams at the end of secondary school, but they were hooked on science! 

As we continue to work with the village leadership and the Ministry of Education to equip Amahoro Secondary School with science labs, we will keep you posted! We anticipate that this will be a slow process - we know from the experience of building the school in the first place - but, a little patience goes a long way. So -here we go!!

Here are a few shots of the school from my recent trip in January. Thanks to the dedication of the school community - teachers and students - there is no shortage of trees on campus, which is a rarity at most Tanzanian secondary schools.

All the best and thank you so much for your support!

Cheers,

Rai Farrelly
Co-founder, Project Wezesha
ED, Girls Education International