The staff

We are very lucky with our teacher Mwanakhamis that has actually studied law but haven’t finished the studies yet and with heather from Scotland who has a widespread experience in teaching that she had received in teaching in her home country, in Thailand, Korea, Malaysia, the Caribbean and Zanzibar. In weekly meetings we will conduct teachers’ trainings to exchange new methods and develop them.

Transparency

It is absolutely important to us that the parents and all members get informed about all monthly expenses and incomes, so that we assure the best possible transparence. Lots of private educational institutions focus on making profits and don’t see that they produce additional financial hurdles that seem to be unattainable. The language courses cost 2.50 Euro per month approximately a quarter of the price of comparable courses in town . The student coaching is almost for free for 50 cents/month, furthermore we provide exercise books and paper.

The registration form is for free. That is not a matter of course cause in most of the schools the registration form costs 1 to 2,50 Euro.

Feedback from the village population

 As everything that’s new our institution is eyed curiously from many sights and beside of many questions and registrations there can be found skeptical attitudes about that we spread Christian ideas as well. That was announced in public through the speakers of a pretty conservative mosque in the village.

The training center aims in achieving the image of a community center. We aim to create free space for the exchange and acquisition of knowledge. All people are appealed to plan and organize new interesting educational projects. It is especially required that we offer Arabic courses or Quran school as well if there is a special interest for it.

We hope that we will gain more trust from the people and that there isn‘t th focus on the religious aspect but on knowledge acquisition.

Dreams of the future

In February we will start a screen-print workshop with our volunteer Sandra’s support and print Shirts for Umoja and other nice motives. As we received a generous donation from the music club Musikverein Seebronn in Germany, in March we are going to buy local music instruments like e.g. drums, tambourines etc. and organize a music workshop and music lessons in the kindergarten.

Thanks a lot…

Thanks to all the involved persons that have supported our project over the years. It touches us much that the hard work has gone into reality now and that we have created a platform for so many people (this month January 2013: 85 Students). In the next weeks and months we will be occupied with the creation of firm curricula and collect and print new teaching material so that we can prepare our lessons effectively.

Mwanakhamis is supported actively to make her refrain from her well-tried teaching methods and to provide more playing and games as well as to design the learning process as a kind of expedition and to take compulsion out of our pedagogic work. In regular group meetings we are going to discuss and develop new concepts. Our main objective represents the encouragement of project work.

Furthermore the container from Switzerland arrived with all your donations. Thank you so much for all the toys, tons of papers and exercise books and the computers and the printer/copy machine. We send the greatest „Thank you! “ to Barbara and Malou from the Ngo Maisha Zanzibar that has provided us with the space in their container. Thanks a lot!

We are very happy and thank my toys thousandfold for their fund raising campaign „Gemeinsam für Kinder“ (German: Together for children) and their generous donation of 2000 Euro.

We are going to embellish our garden and playground and to build another classroom so that we can offer more courses. The demand for the courses is increasing as more and more people hear of our institution and the courses are almost for free.

We look forward and are very excited, what the next months will bring us.