AUSTRALIAN ROTARIAN HELPING TO ESTABLISH HIGH SCHOOL IN TANZANIA

Sharon Daishe, of the Rotary Club of Forbes Ipomoea, District 9700, and co-leader of the Kili 28/8 project
is spending a year with the new Orkeeswa Secondary School in Tanzania.
  Newsletter - September 2008

Karibu! Welcome and thank you for your interest in the Indigenous Education Foundation of Tanzania (IEFT)!

IEFT strives to increase access to secondary school educational programs and is committed to our mission
and objectives of serving the indigenous children and citizens of this country, providing them with
opportunities and skills to positively transform their own lives.

The creation of IEFT was inspired by the intensely motivated students in and around Monduli, Tanzania and
in response to their lack of opportunities to continue their education past Primary School. The organization
was created in 2005 by a collaborative effort of Tanzanian and American volunteers & teachers.

Less than 5% of Tanzanians have access to Secondary Education.

The website for the school is:     www.ieftz.org

A brief message from Sharon reads as follows:

St Jude's put me in contact with IEFT last year - two amazing Americans and one Maasai, Grosper
(who would not be educated  were it not for a German sponsor, Klaus) started out in 2005 to build a
school in the Maasai village of Lashaine. 
I live in a house in Monduli, about 1 1/2 hours from Arusha, with Peter and Ashley (the Americans) and Jeff
and Jenny  (Canadian volunteer teachers).  I am helping IEFT for one year as their office manager setting up
their office and sponsorship  systems. www.ieftz.org will give you more info!  We have no running water at
home and the school has no power or water yet. 
Huge, huge challenges that we face daily but we don't care because 41 students live far worse than we can
imagine; Orkeeswa will change their lives and the village of Lashaine.  I will add you to my group email for
some of my diaries! (Sharon's Tanzania Moments March/April 08 may be found here.)
 
Gemma Sisia has given IEFT much help; I spoke to Gemma for about 3 hours a week or so before she had
Isabella. Gemma is always happy to share information on setting up a school.  I arrived here on 18 March
and will go  home in April next year.

I will probably meet Charmaine; I want to go on the medical mission too provided that IEFT
will give me time off!

Congratulations to Sharon for volunteering her services to the school and best wishes to her for the
coming year.

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