"Education is Liberation!" DCT Mvumi Secondary School desperately needs your support!!!

I’m volunteering for two months at a remarkable high school in Tanzania’s semi-desert region, witnessing firsthand both its serious challenges and its incredibly resilient, positive spirit.

Students and teachers are doing their best to achieve high academic results despite difficult, worsening working conditions. This is due to an enormous lack of funds at the school. One of the reasons for the lack of funds is the drop in the number of students paying school fees.

I’m so inspired after being welcomed into this tightly knit, supportive, and relentlessly hopeful school community. These students work from 5 a.m. until 10 p.m., determined to get university degrees and build careers for themselves so they can enable their community to create a better future, which they know is achievable.

They truly embody the school's “Education is Liberation” motto.

The money raised will go to the Mvumi School Trust. This charity provides support for the students and funds projects at the school. They will use this money to fund the projects listed below, which are crucial to the school's continued success.

Once these projects are funded, they will help to cover the cost of staff wages.

To pay all staff wages for three months, $70,000 NZD is needed.

The staff have worked unpaid for most of this year. They’ll be back-paid when the school fees are received. This is causing serious strain on their families, and multiple teachers have left the school.