Help a Tanzanian Orphan Complete Primary School

The GLK Student Fund would like to introduce two of it's newest scholarship students, Aidan and Raymondo who began pre-school at New Vision primary school this past June. These two students are the younger twin brothers of current GLK Scholarship student, Kelvin. The boys live with their father in a particularly remote region with few resources.The father of the boys, Paulo has been struggling to provide for all of his children. Largely uneducated himself, Paulo relies on odd jobs to support his family including caretaking for others' property, farming, and nearly anything that needs to be done.

Unfortunately, the boys' mother passed away when Aidan and Raymondo were two years old making Paulo's money from odd jobs the only source of income for the family. The GLK Student Fund would like to provide for Aidan and Raymondo's education as they move through primary school. With past GlobalGiving donations, we feel confident we can support the first few years of primary school, but we are looking to ensure that we can fully commit throughout their entire primary schooling.

Please help us support this family during the holiday season and give these students the powerful gift of education.

Happy Holidays,

The GLK Trustees, Staff, and Volunteers

Links:

• GLK Student Fund

We (Jessica and Gayle of the GLK Student Fund) recently visited the GLK Student Fund students and trustees in Bukoba,Tanzania. During this time, we visited students at 11 different schools, including several of those supported through our GlobalGiving campaigns.

Annagrace: Annagrace was the first student we supported through our first GlobalGiving Campaign four years ago. Four years ago, Annagrace was living in a dangerous situation and unstable home. Through the help our GlobalGiving donors, we were able to place her in Kibeta English Medium Primary School (KEMPS). Since graduating from, KEMPS, Annagrace has been flourishing in her students at Hekima Girls Boarding School. During our trip, we visited with Annagrace to see how she was doing. She reports that she's doing well in school (and her reports support this), and is enjoying her time at secondary school. We also met with Annagrace's headteacher and one of her teachers who had nothing but positive things to report.

Ines: We met with Ines and also with her mother while on our trip. We stopped by her mother's kiosk to purchase up some shoes' for students. She reported that Ines is doing well at KEMPS. We had the opportunity to catch up with Ines in her classroom and later at the school graduation ceremony.  She is doing well as she prepares for the standard four national exams.

Susan and Eveline: We had the pleasant experience of watching Susan and Eveline during dance practice for the school's graduation ceremony at Karume Day and Boarding English Medium Primary School. They seemed very happy, healthy, and to be doing well in studies and in having fun with fellow students.  Their headmaster gave glowing reports.

During this visit, we were unable to visit Cynthia, Sara, Aidanius and Raymond as they attend school in a different region than the one we visited. However, our trustees report they are doing well.

We were so excited to see our students in person and see them happy, and thriving in their studies. Thank you all for your continuing support of our project.

Links:

• GLK Student Fund