Results: Today, EdPowerment's Discovery Program is reaching secondary students in remote and underserved communities with key study, test-taking and life skills information that can be the difference in their futures. Alongside this outreach, we continue to offer pivotal college sponsorships to exceptional students who otherwise could not continue past secondary school, no matter their results. Our mission of education now also extends to women's groups, anxious to learn local activities that can bring in small, but life-saving income when climate conditions threaten their crop and livestock livelihoods. Our multi-pronged educational reach is of vital importance to these otherwise forgotten populations.
Tomorrow's Scholar-Leader Program has mentored and supported over 45 students through secondary, vocational and/or higher learning to achieve employment, careers and the ability to achieve economic security. Our alumni consist of medical professionals, educators, skilled workers and small business participants. Roughly 20 students remain in the program, advancing through various levels and coursework at Tanzania's leading universities.
At the Kilimahewa Educational Center (KIWOCE Open School) we provided the staff and facilities support to educate hundreds of students from 2010 - 2021 in secondary equivalency coursework, computer and other skills training, camps, Boys and Girls Clubs and a variety of other programs. All activities motivate and teach students who have been excluded or under-served by the educational system - and who need positive reinforcement to reach their potential and achieve independent lives.
EdPowerment's funding of Connects Autism Tanzania (originally the Autism Connects Tanzania program) from 2010 - 2020 enabled over 1000 caretakers and professionals, who serve those with intellectual disabilities, to learn vital, life-changing information in forums and workshops. Thousands of other stakeholders attended advocacy events and learned from media broadcasts. In recent years, CAT introduced special needs protocols such as IEPs and inclusion methods into the Tanzanian system and has promoted vocational training and work opportunities for the intellectually disabled and special needs population in Tanzania.
EdPowerment's special outreach projects have provided key sanitary and other facilities support to the Sambarai-Mary Bennet primary school and Mrike Secondary School, both of which serve students from difficult circumstances.
Target demographics: Teenagers and young adults living without economic security, family resources or access to quality education.
Direct beneficiaries per year: Over 30 advanced high school, college and university students; over 110 secondary school equivalency candidates at the KIWOCE Open School; another 200 students in other skills and preparatory courses at KIWOCE; 150 teenagers in KIWOCE's Boys and Girls Clubs and several hundred additional secondary school youth in skills seminars.
Geographic areas served: Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Programs: Personalized sponsorships and scholarships, educational and life-skills programs and positive mentoring and guidance.
moiramadonia 09/16/2021
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