This is a crucial – and exciting – year for Tumaini Open School as we embark on the first steps of our ambitious development plan. Visitors to the school can already see the foundations and building work for 3 new classrooms. Once completed, they will allow us to double the school to 100 pupils. We …
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A visit by two volunteer fieldworkers from Engineers Without Borders has made a huge difference to life at Tumaini Open School. They helped install a reliable power system and improve internet connection. “Their generous work has brought about transformative changes for the school, significantly enhancing the education experience for students and teachers alike,” says Tumaini …
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Here at Tumaini Open School we’re celebrating extra funding and support from a US-based charity group: the Girls Education Collaboration. Their Ally Funder Alliance channels support from donors towards initiatives that, like Tumaini, are locally-run. We are trusted to use the support wisely and it will make a big difference to our work. We are …
Every Tuesday morning our students are now taking part in yoga classes as part of a global community. Tumaini Open School has signed up to the My Little Zen programme, which provides technology and teachers for both online yoga classes and digital literacy courses. The young women now have regular sessions with Hassania Sadek, a …
Amazing though it may seem, banana trees now growing in central Tanzania have their roots in North Wales. Volunteer Cathie, who has worked with Tanzania Development Trust setting up digital platforms, was impressed with our work at the school and wanted to do more to help. So she sowed some seeds in her garden in …
For too long, teenage mothers in Tanzania have been denied a proper education because of the way they are viewed by society. They have been dismissed by schools, because it seems the schools feel education no longer matters to them once they have a child to care for. And it’s the moral stigma these young …
From vulnerable young mothers to schooling brave young women strive to realise their educational and life goals. Being at an inclusive and stigma-free school, young mothers schooling at Tumaini we believe that they should not be labeled as vulnerable young mothers anymore. Instead, they prefer to be regarded as brave, schooling young women striving to …
Needs assessment interview Tumaini Open School provides a warm and supportive residential learning environment for adolescent mothers. Young girls who have become pregnant – often through no fault of their own – face difficulties continuing their formal education. They were legally banned from state schools until November 2021 and remain to be one of the …
Until November 2021, Tanzania banned adolescent mothers from receiving their public education. These laws extended to children who conceived due to exploitation and assault. Even now, pervading norms can still deprive these girls of sufficient academic support. Families and schools continue to marginalise them into their households with greater domestic responsibilities. Severely under-resourced NGOs bear …
Girls like Holo and Neema faced discrimination and expulsion from school – just because they had a child. We are very excited to be soon opening our doors to a stigma-free learning centre for such girls!