Educate the children with "Hearts in Unity"
♥ Give a gift to purchase a textbook for the students to use in class
♥ Give a gift to purchase a desk for a school classroom
♥ Give a gift to purchase a school bag & school supplies for a student
♥ Give a gift to support a music or art education program in a school
Education is the key to overcoming the crippling poverty which is
part of the daily lives of children in Tanzania. Yet, the educational environment in this third world country makes learning a daily challenge.
Schools, classrooms, teachers and textbooks are in short supply. Classrooms with 75 students taught by one teacher are common. As many as five students share a single 4-foot long desk. A single textbook is often shared by as many as 20-25 students. Several students often share a pencil, or use a pencil that has been cut in half for two children to use.
Families living in extreme poverty struggle to purchase the required school uniforms, shoes and school supplies for their children. Children can be expelled from school for not having these basic items.
Children in Tanzania love to play sports with their friends. But soccer balls and volleyballs are a luxury that no individual child owns. Rarely are schools even able to afford balls for the children to play with during breaks from academic classes or after school. Instead, a child will make their own ball out of a rock wrapped in old plastic bags and tied with pieces of string or vines.
Tanzania suffers from an critical shortage of both teachers and schools to accommodate all of the school age children. There are not enough classrooms in many schools, forcing teachers to hold their classes outdoors. With the limited number of teachers, class sizes can exceed 75 students. With that many children in a classroom, desks are often in short supply, and 4-5 children must share
a single 4-foot long bench.
Imagine how much easier it would be for these children to focus
on their studies
if they simply had
more room to sit.
Throughout the country of Tanzania, there is an average of just 1 textbook for every 5 school children. In the schools we help support through Hearts in Unity, there are as few as 3 or 4 textbooks in each classroom, forcing as many as
20-25 children to gather around a single textbook as they carefully copy their lessons into a small notebook.
♥ Textbooks
Imagine how much easier it would be for these
children to learn and succeed in school if there
were more textbooks in every classroom.
♥ School Supplies & School Bags
In many Tanzania schools, it is not uncommon for several students to share a single pencil. Pencils are sometimes cut in half so that 2 children can each have a pencil of their own. Erasers are scarce – a Tanzanian child will lick his or her finger and attempt to rub the pencil marks off of the paper. These children consider themselves fortunate if they are able to find an old, used plastic bag in which to carry a pencil and small notebook to and from school. Having a backpack or similar school bag is a rare luxury when a family, often with 6 or more children, is struggling to survive on just $1 a day.
♥ Soccer Balls & Volleyballs
♥ School Desks
Hearts in Unity - USA
P.O. Box 41
Germantown, WI 53022
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Praise the Lord! I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
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♥ Gifts from the heart...
Click on each item below to learn more.
♥ Sew simple fabric school bags for students
♥ Make small English/Swahili phrase books to help the children learn English
♥ Be a tuition sponsor to help a child attend school in Tanzania
♥ Help start a sister school partnership with the students and teachers in your
school and the students and teachers in a school in Tanzania
Imagine how delighted the children would
be if they had new soccer balls and volleyballs
to use at school with their friends.
Few children in Tanzania are fortunate enough to have a backpack in which to carry a pencil and small notebook for school. Having even a simple fabric school bag is a luxury.
♥ Sew School Bags
How can you help?
Sewing school bags
for children in
Tanzania is a fun
and easy project
perfect for sewing
and quilting groups,
scout troops, church
groups and anyone
who loves to sew.
If you'd like to help
us with our ongoing
project to make
school bags for the
thousands of children
in our village schools,
please download the pattern
and instructions by
clicking this button -->
How can you help?
Making small Swahili/English phrase books is
a wonderful project for children in schools,
churches, Scout Troops, 4-H Clubs and more.
It's fun and easy! The children draw pictures
Children in Tanzania begin to learn English when they are in third grade. But textbooks for every subject, including
books to help the students learn English,
are scarce in Tanzanian classrooms.
♥ Make Swahili/English Phrase Books
You draw pictures or other designs on the front and back book covers, and assemble the books using pre-designed, book pages available from Hearts in Unity. The books are then shipped to schools in Tanzania, and placed in the hands of children who are delighted to have a book of their very own to learn English.
To learn more about making
these books for the children
in our village schools, please
email us at: hearts_in_unity@yahoo.com.
To learn more about being a tuition sponsor for a child, either for secondary school education or for a sewing/knitting
internship at our Hearts in Unity sewing/knitting coop,
please email us at: hearts_in_unity@yahoo.com.
Education is the key to overcoming poverty. Yet, for the families in Tanzania who live at a heatbreaking poverty level of about $1 a day for the needs of the whole family, sending a children to a secondary school after attending elementary school is a dream beyond their financial means. For the children, this means their education ends at about age 12.
♥ Be a Child's Tuition Sponsor
♥ Sister School Partnerships
Regardless of where they live, children of all ages have a natural curiosity about children who live in other parts of the world. They often have so many questions, but seldom any opportunity to ask questions or to share information about their own lives directly with other children on the other side of the world.
How can you help?
When the students
and teachers of a
school embark on an
“Sister School”
partnership with a
school in Tanzania,
Africa, it opens up a
world of learning and
sharing that will forever change the lives of the students and teacher on both sides of the world.
Facilitated through Hearts In Unity, a global “Sister School” partnership allows
the two schools to connect in ways that nurture ongoing mutual learning and sharing.
To learn more about sister
school partnerships, please
email us at:
hearts_in_unity@yahoo.com
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Imagine the delight one of these children would feel if he or she received a brand new fabric school bag filled with school supplies.
♥ Music & Art Education
Music and art are important in the Tanzanian culture. Children sing the national anthem and their school song at the beginning of each school day. The school may have a hand-made drum to accompany the student's voices, but music
education,
beyond the
simple songs
sung by the
students, is
non-existent
in far too many
Tanzanian
schools. Art supplies in classrooms and art education programs in most Tanzanian schools are few and far between.
Imagine how a gift of musical instruments
(simple recorders/flutes in particular) or art supplies for a classroom would enrich the
lives of these children
who have so little.
How can you help?
When you help a child as their tuition sponsor, you give them the opportunity to continue in their education and to rise out of the poverty of the countless generations before them. Your support gives them hope where there had once been only worry and despair over their future.
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Heartfelt thanks for the
1,452
School Bags
already donated!
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Heartfelt thanks for the
967
Phrase Books
already donated!
In supporting the academic and extracurricular activities of schools such as Seela Primary School and Maring'a Juu Primary School, we are empowering these children with the tools they need to succeed in achieving their dreams.
The solution is so simple... together, we can educate the orphan and at-risk children of Tanzania.
