Organizations Collaborate To Help Pay School Fees
Working To Empower (WTE), with support from the Center of Youth Development and Adult Education (CELA), recently started an education sponsorship program called Emebet Education Program to pay school fees for the most vulnerable students, orphans and older girls living in the Lugufu camps. In Lugufu camps, as with those in Tanzania, primary school is free but secondary is not. As such, only some children are able to attend.
WTE and CELA (a RESPECT partner in Lugufu) collaborated with World Vision's Child Protection Agency as well as Jane Goodall's Roots and Shoots program to sponsor children to go to school. World Vision will help to identify children in the camp and children from Jane Goodall's education program will also be selected based on need. Ten students have been recommended by Roots and Shoots staff.
In its first year, the Lugufu program will sponsor 30 secondary students, hoping to expand the following year, if it can get support from Canadian sponsors. For more information about the Emebet Education Program please visit the WTE website: www.workingtoempower.org/v2.
Students Selected for 2006-7 School Year
Center of Youth Development and Adult Education (CELA)
- Mihili Shabani
- Mwenegoma Alphonse
- Kabalaka Charles
- Labani Lusambya
- Riziki Swedi
- Suzana Twihenya
- Bonne-Idee Shamba
- Akili wa Akili
- Mishaki Faresi
- Heri Pindila
- Sibwango Mika
- Lukube Joseph
- Sophia Rajabu
- Riziki Mwenebatu
- Jolie Omari
- Aroni Useni
- Flora Omari
- Byaombe Wakilongo
- Nyengela Abedi
- Gerome Kashindi
Roots and Shoots
- Kasige Sumaili
- Mwangaza Ilunga
- Noela Msangwa
- Albertna Machimo
- Susana Mshikana
- Olga Rukongo
- Mulebinge Abdalla
- Ivon Iddi
- Feza Amuri
- Lumbaissa Dibadje