urgent additional funding needed for the
project 'dormitories mbaash'!
For a while now, we are trying to find funds for the construction of two dormitories, one for boys and one for girls, plus a toilet building at the primary school of Mbaashi. The request for this comes from the local population.
The school has almost 400 pupils, education is free, transportation is not available.
Mbaashi is a Maasai settlement that is part of the municipality of Selela, which Tanzania Support Foundation has been supporting for almost 5 years now.
Through the dormitory project henceforth 100 additional children can go to school for whom it is now too far to walk there everyday. As a result, they remain illiterate or they only attend school from a much later age to school. For the Maasai girls, it brings an additional risk of circumcision and arranged marriages from the age of 12. Therefore our first focus is on constructing a girls' dormitory and sanitary block. the boys' dormitory shall be constructed later.
Moreover, the children that do not attend school also lack the daily school meals, provided through the World Food Programme of the United Nations, and monitoring their health by the medical dispensary at Mbaashi.
Now that last week employees of Atos Netherlands (ICT & Business consultancy) have chosen this project for their 15th trip shaft construction in January / February 2015, it is all the more important to quickly find the still lacking money for this dormitory. Atos will come with 23 people to Mbaashi for 2 weeks to assist the local population with the construction work.
As Tanzania Support Foundation, the Mbaashi community itself plus some smaller sponsors so far, we currently have collected about two third of the total construction cost of € 48,000.
Now we are looking, also through the power of Facebook (please share this message on your Facebook page), urgently for money, tips and ideas for the missing approximately € 15,000.
Who knows suitable funds or know of companies, large foundations or other options?
Help therethrough so more children in Tanzania will be able to go to school for the first time in 2015.
Let us together try to fully use this extraordinary opportunity for Mbaashi!
The school has almost 400 pupils, education is free, transportation is not available.
Mbaashi is a Maasai settlement that is part of the municipality of Selela, which Tanzania Support Foundation has been supporting for almost 5 years now.
Through the dormitory project henceforth 100 additional children can go to school for whom it is now too far to walk there everyday. As a result, they remain illiterate or they only attend school from a much later age to school. For the Maasai girls, it brings an additional risk of circumcision and arranged marriages from the age of 12. Therefore our first focus is on constructing a girls' dormitory and sanitary block. the boys' dormitory shall be constructed later.
Moreover, the children that do not attend school also lack the daily school meals, provided through the World Food Programme of the United Nations, and monitoring their health by the medical dispensary at Mbaashi.
Now that last week employees of Atos Netherlands (ICT & Business consultancy) have chosen this project for their 15th trip shaft construction in January / February 2015, it is all the more important to quickly find the still lacking money for this dormitory. Atos will come with 23 people to Mbaashi for 2 weeks to assist the local population with the construction work.
As Tanzania Support Foundation, the Mbaashi community itself plus some smaller sponsors so far, we currently have collected about two third of the total construction cost of € 48,000.
Now we are looking, also through the power of Facebook (please share this message on your Facebook page), urgently for money, tips and ideas for the missing approximately € 15,000.
Who knows suitable funds or know of companies, large foundations or other options?
Help therethrough so more children in Tanzania will be able to go to school for the first time in 2015.
Let us together try to fully use this extraordinary opportunity for Mbaashi!