Sponsorships
The goal of the Safi School Project is to make a measurable difference in the education of secondary school students. Safi's main focus is to assure that students can attend and acquire the certificates needed for sustainable employment. In Tanzania, most students must pay for secondary school. Safi works with students in an area where education is valued but the average annual income for a family of 6-8 is $200-$300 US. Sponsors are needed to narrow the gap between what families can pay and what is needed.
A $700 sponsorship pays for tuition for one year.
In Tanzania one quarter of one percent of the students who begin school ever make it to the university level.
(To help you visualize: one tenth of one percent of U.S. kids who play school football make it to the pros.)
A $700 sponsorship pays for tuition for one year.
In Tanzania one quarter of one percent of the students who begin school ever make it to the university level.
(To help you visualize: one tenth of one percent of U.S. kids who play school football make it to the pros.)
Post-Secondary Support
Safi School Project’s mission of empowering and improving the lives of young people in Tanzania through education is working! Success of Safi sponsored students has created a major funding challenge. All 2013 - 2016 graduating Form IV students passed their national examinations and most of these students are eligible to continue their education in Form V and VI or other vocational training that leads directly to a job.
Post-Secondary options are based on test scores. Highest scores qualify for government school placement at a cost of approximately $500 per year excluding transportation. When those slots are filled, students can apply for private school with tuition costing approximately $900 to $1300 per year plus extra monies needed for mattresses, bedding, school supplies and transportation. Students can also opt to attend vocational training programs for careers in nursing, primary education, computer or other skilled fields.
Funding is needed for these successful students to continue their education. Safi School Project has established a Post-Secondary General Fund specifically for students who qualify to continue their education.
If you have any questions regarding this fund and its implementation, please write to Safi School Project, P. O. Box 8275, Lacey, WA 98505 or email info@safischoolproject.org attn.: Mary, Nancy, or Carrie.
Post-Secondary options are based on test scores. Highest scores qualify for government school placement at a cost of approximately $500 per year excluding transportation. When those slots are filled, students can apply for private school with tuition costing approximately $900 to $1300 per year plus extra monies needed for mattresses, bedding, school supplies and transportation. Students can also opt to attend vocational training programs for careers in nursing, primary education, computer or other skilled fields.
Funding is needed for these successful students to continue their education. Safi School Project has established a Post-Secondary General Fund specifically for students who qualify to continue their education.
If you have any questions regarding this fund and its implementation, please write to Safi School Project, P. O. Box 8275, Lacey, WA 98505 or email info@safischoolproject.org attn.: Mary, Nancy, or Carrie.
Why Safi Helps
Tanzania is a poor country financially but the people have a strong spirit and vision of hope for the future. The Tanzanian government supports education but can only cover some of the costs. The TZ Government does not fully fund secondary education and many secondary schools get no government support beyond the building supplies for the walls and roof of a school. The communities build the schools and it is through student school fees that they run the school and pay teachers. In poor communities, families can not afford to pay school fees so their children's education ends with the end of primary school. The cycle of poverty continues. Students know they must reach further in order to find a brighter future. Safi School Project members understand that there is really only one chance that these students have to get an education.
Please click on the short sponsor handbook for more information about sponsorship.
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Example of Student Correspondence
This letter is from a Safi School Project sponsored Ngateu Secondary School student.
English is a second language for these students. Much of their English is learned from English speaking volunteers and visitors. Writing to their sponsors gives them an opportunity to practice. If you sponsor a student, please write to them. Postcards are greatly appreciated too.
Ngateu Secondary School
PO Box 7283
Arusha
5.2.2013
Dear Mary,
I hope you are so well in your family. On my side I am OK. I use this opportunities to say thank you for sponsoring me and God bless you. I have many things to say thank you because I saw your cooperation in my school and I continue to see. But I am very happy because now I am form III and continue to study hard.
The aim of this letter is to say thank you for giving us laptop computers because its useful for internet. Also we thank for water well because no water no life and at the precious time before giving us water my school have a problem about it. And also laboratory for that now we study in science laboratory. Also library we learn more stuff from library because it have many books, we say thank you. And a good teacher we say thanks for that because a good teacher are make a student to get a good education and also test books thank you for all. May God bless you.
English is a second language for these students. Much of their English is learned from English speaking volunteers and visitors. Writing to their sponsors gives them an opportunity to practice. If you sponsor a student, please write to them. Postcards are greatly appreciated too.
Ngateu Secondary School
PO Box 7283
Arusha
5.2.2013
Dear Mary,
I hope you are so well in your family. On my side I am OK. I use this opportunities to say thank you for sponsoring me and God bless you. I have many things to say thank you because I saw your cooperation in my school and I continue to see. But I am very happy because now I am form III and continue to study hard.
The aim of this letter is to say thank you for giving us laptop computers because its useful for internet. Also we thank for water well because no water no life and at the precious time before giving us water my school have a problem about it. And also laboratory for that now we study in science laboratory. Also library we learn more stuff from library because it have many books, we say thank you. And a good teacher we say thanks for that because a good teacher are make a student to get a good education and also test books thank you for all. May God bless you.
