Case Study 1

In 2008 the Sinai Primary School, 5 km from Babati, in Northern Tanzania, was a failing school.

It had nearly 700 students and 7 classrooms, 8 toilets, 1 teachers office and no kitchen and no water. The classrooms were awful beyond belief and one was about to fall over.

This is what happens when there is insufficient planning and the Government, at the request of the world, makes education free and compulsory. 975 enrolment and no one getting a quality education.

The Livingstone Tanzania Trust then found a school to create a “sister school” relationship.

Teachers from the school came to visit Tanzania and together we discussed priorities and developed a plan going forward that would be subject to raising funds

The first priority was to bring water to the school. This is being achieved in a 3 stage process. In 2009 permission was granted to build a borehole at the school for the use of the school only.This cost significant sums of money as the water battle was 80 meters below the surface.

In January 2009 the teachers were all attending teacher training classes

By November 2009, 7 classrooms were fully renovated and a kitchen built

By August 2010 the dangerous classroom had been rebuilt and by April 2011 it will be renovated and fully operational.

By November 2010 a hand pump will be secured inside a fenced and secured area that can provide water for the school. The school will have its first computer and other new learning materials

By April 2011 the staff toilet (that is a disgrace) will be replaced with two new, light and airy toilets. Work will also start on building new classrooms. We need to build 9 more classrooms and need your help.

By Nov 2012 we hope to have built Africa’s first ever playground that generates electricity.

By April 2013 we hope we have been able to start a teachers house at the school, we need 20!!

It is too much to expect one school to take on this massive responsibility  and so we are looking for schools to help share that burden. 4 schools could share the cost of building a double classroom with a teachers office £5000 each