Operation Bootstrap-Africa

Programs: Educational operating grants and scholarships: * the largest program of oba is the maasae girls secondary school (mglss) in monduli, tanzania. Student sponsorships provided funding for the education of 197 students at this residential school. In its 23rd year, the school continues to provide an opportunity for pastoralist girls to be educated in a safe and nurturing environment. A monthly grant to the school supports teacher and staff salaries, food, textbooks, utilities and other expenses at the school. * additional scholarship funds were provided for 4 students attending moringe sokoine secondary school in monduli, tanzania. A grant was given for teacher training at mglss. In madagascar a grant was provided to pay teacher salaries at five primary schools. These teachers taught more than 5500 students last year in one of the most impoverished areas of the country.

leadership development: * the oba post-secondary program provides scholarships for graduates of the maasae girls school through sponsor support. This year, 83 mglss graduates pursued degrees at colleges, universities, and vocational schools in tanzania with scholarships through operation bootstrap africa. An additional 4 graduates from other secondary schools also received post-secondary scholarships. * * forty-eight students at the arusha lutheran medical center school of nursing each received a $1,000 scholarship to help defray the high cost of nursing training.

construction and school projects at primary and secondary schools in tanzania: * funding was provided for the following items at mglss: textbooks, desks, uniforms, and white boards. Additional funding at mglss was provided for a new science building, shingles for the chapel roof, cow maintenance, a drip irrigation kit, a corn cultivator, and a solar panel for the guest house. Funding was provided for numerous primary school projects; including, several classrooms and a well and water filters at best school academy in kenya, a dining hall in dodoma, a laundry and dormitory at ilboru primary special needs unit, stoves at olchoki, a teacher house at olarash primary school, and uniforms and uji at olarash. Funding was also provided for construction of a classroom at bacho vocational school.

healthcare and healthcare education: * funding was provided to the arusha lutheran medical centre and selian hospital for the maternal and child care clinic, plaster house, the aids orphan program, the neonatal intensive care unit (nicu), and the malnutrition project. * funding was provided for construction of a medical dispensary in makanka, near lushoto, tanzania.