Girls in Tanzania drop out of school at an alarming rate. Hundreds of thousands are forced out every year by factors such as poverty, pregnancy, lack of parental support, peer pressure and failing to do well on exams. The onset of adolescence is a particularly…
AfricAid welcomes our new Development Director, Lizzy Beach. Lizzy is already hard at work planning and executing fundraising activities to support AfricAid’s growth in 2017 and beyond. She is excited to build relationships with AfricAid’s loyal supporters and attract new donors to become part of…
Recruitment day is an exciting day for the Kisa Mentors, Year Two Kisa Scholars and new incoming Scholars alike. That’s because it’s our first introduction. Everyone gets to meet the prospective Scholars, who are happy and eager to be part of Kisa family, and to…
After the long Christmas Holiday and New Year celebrations, all Kisa Partner Schools re-opened in the second week of January 2017 and Kisa Mentors were back at the AfricAid offices preparing for their Kisa Classes. In their first Kisa Classes, Kisa Scholars shared stories…
by Chausiku Mkuya, Kisa Mentor Career Day was established in 2011 for two reasons: it is important for Kisa Scholars to be inspired by other successful women from Tanzania and it is useful for the students to learn from people who are in the…
by Devotha Mlay, Kisa Project Manager The Kisa Project is AfricAid’s girls’ empowerment project, which provides female, A-level students with life skills, entrepreneurial and leadership training once a week after school for two years. The Kisa Liaison is a female teacher in a…
AfricAid’s entire staff and Board were thrilled when Jana Hardy Kinsey accepted the position of Executive Director in September. During her nearly four years with the organization as Country Director, Jana oversaw the expansion of the Kisa Project from 179 Scholars at 8 Partner Schools…
by Eligrania Lema, Binti Shupavu Project Manager It is not only Kisa Scholars who are mentored! AfricAid Mentor training occurs once a year. This fall, from September 12-16, exciting new trainers from various backgrounds brought a diversity of knowledge to a group of 17…
by Devotha Mlay, Kisa Project Manager, Kilimanjaro Region When entering the AfricAid office in Kilimanjaro in 2014, you would have been welcomed by the sound of the door, and the sight of one desk, a chair, a cabinet and a yellow curtain, which was…
by Chausiku Mkuya, Kisa Mentor “Not everyone gets an opportunity to be in the Kisa Project and those who get that opportunity will find that it changes their lives completely”. That was the message shared by the Year Two Scholars (Form Six) when they were…