When my love of Africa and its people led me to volunteering in Tanzania in 2013, I anticipated spending the month playing and working in an orphanage after which my life would resume pretty much as previously.
An incredibly safe country by African standards, Tanzania captured my heart, and its endearing people brought me more happiness than I was ever able to return.
Back in Australia, I soon began raising funds and finding ways to best help the kids at the orphanage I could see clearly cherished the kids entrusted to their care.
Encouraged by Nelson Mandela’s statement “A country without education is a country without a future”, education quickly became my focus.
The question of whether to enrol two children in an independently owned English Medium School, was a difficult one, but eventually the orphanage Principals agreed to take this next step, a huge one for a small, privately owned orphanage.
Backed by my commitment to fund this cutting-edge decision, my first two sponsored children stepped boldly forward.
This single act raised awareness that better education in a country where the belief that education is important, but long-term retention rates are low, offered sustainable and empowering opportunities to the children of Tumaini for Africa Orphanage.
An act applauded by other compassionate orphanage volunteers now also sponsoring students.
Eight years, and an epic journey on, OneLoveTanzania.com still supports these and two young adults, along with numerous others, but changing the education vision in Tanzania that going to school is not just a discipline, that education can be sustainable, can be enjoyable and certainly can break the circle of poverty, remains paramount to OneLoveTanzania.com.
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