Location: Tanzania
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Developing Curricula for Students in a Rural Maasai Community in Tanzania with Employee Volunteers
Employee volunteers from Barracuda Networks joined Team4Tech staff for another transformative virtual project driving positive change for learners in Tanzania. In a rural Maasai community in northwest Tanzania, 78% of households live below the poverty line of $1.25/day, and girls and women face severe gender discrimination. Orkeeswa, an education nonprofit and Team4Tech NGO partner, serves…
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University Internship for EdTech with Gashora Girls Academy, TEC, and CYD
Virtual Internship Opportunity for Undergraduate Students During the summer of 2021, Team4Tech partnered with Middlebury College, University of California at Davis, and Dartmouth College to provide a unique and impactful virtual summer internship for students interested in ed tech. The internship cohort included 15 students who worked with three of our nonprofit partners: the Gashora…
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Impacting Digital Literacy in Tanzania with Tanzania Education Corporation
Education Access and Digital Literacy in Tanzania In Tanzania, only 30% of youth 14–17 years enroll in secondary education. Past that, only 3% enroll in the final two years of schooling. Less than 10% of primary school children achieve foundational learning outcomes such as literacy, numeracy, and life skills needed for further education. Because of…
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Supporting High-quality STEM Education in Tanzania with Tanzania Education Corp
In 2018, the World Bank stated that secondary school enrollment for girls in Tanzania was only 30%. Today, if a female student falls pregnant, she is not permitted to continue with her education. Limited access to schooling undoubtedly causes significant long-term socio-economic ramifications for the nation as a whole. Tanzania Education Corp’s mission is to…
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Pivoting to a Digital Model in Tanzania
Every child deserves access to quality education yet more than half of the world’s children are not learning critical math, literacy, and life skills. If current trends continue, by 2030 more than 750 million young people will not be on track to acquire basic secondary-level skills. A global teacher shortage, estimated to reach 69 million…
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Reflecting on Monique’s Tanzania experience
Monique Edmondson, a Cisco volunteer on the Tanzania project in August 2015, kept a fantastic daily blog while in-country. The following is an excerpt from one of her posts, and the complete blog can be found here.
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Building a Better Infrastructure For The Tanzania Schools
It wasn’t too long ago that I received an email from Noel Durrant (our project team leader). We got on the phone later that week to discuss the details of the trip and while this was exactly the travel experience that I’ve been longing for, there were still uncertainties of safety, financial expenses, and “Is…
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Deploying Computer Labs in Schools in Tanzania
Our latest Team4Tech returned from Tanzania in mid-November. We were there with five volunteers from Intel, four from Intuit, and two from Facebook to help World Vision deploy computer labs in the first two of 14 schools in their northern Tanzania project. The team also supported a week of business skills training for entrepreneurs at…
