High-Quality Education for 10,000+ Tanzanian Kids

18 Donations from 18 Donors:

Project Personnel

Ashley Shuyler - Founder and Executive Director

Ashley is the founder of AfricAid. She first journeyed to Tanzania with her family in 1996 at the age of eleven. Struck by the poverty she saw while there, particularly among children her own age, she became determined to do something to help. She founded AfricAid in 2001. As AfricAid’s Executive Director, she is responsible for the development and oversight of AfricAid’s programs in Tanzania.

Frances Vavrus - Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota

Dr. Vavrus' research has focused on international education and development, including AIDS and educational opportunity in Africa, & gender relations in rural Tanzania. In 2006, she received the Fulbright scholarship and spent a year with her family in Tanzania, continuing her research and developing the Teaching In Action training program.

Faculty - Mwenge College of Education, Tanzania

Other key personnel of the TIA program include five faculty members from MWUCE, who have extensive experience teaching science, math, geography, English, and literature at the university level.