Moivaro Education Foundation
MOIVARO EDUCATION FOUNDATIONThe Moivaro Education Foundation is founded in 2003. The main purpose of the foundation is to improve and facilitate the primary education in Moivaro, a small village near Arusha, Tanzania. Moivaro Education Foundation provides an education for students who otherwise would not be able to attend school. We believe in the importance of working side by side with the local community in order to ensure sustainability.Providing an education to young children in Tanzania is a way to create hope in a country where disease and poverty are so prevalent. Our goal is to encourage families to reach beyond their homes to affect positive change throughout the world. The first school we support is the Shangarao Primary School. |
EDUCATIONEducation is of crucial importance for the future lives of Tanzanian children and thus for the future of Tanzania. Education has proven positive effects on health, employment, birth control and general development. SHANGARAO PRIMARY SCHOOLShangarao Primary School has over one thousand pupils from the nursery to the seventh standard. It's a very poor school and though it is run by a motivated staff, there is a significant lack of means for improvement. |
Due
to a lack of maintenance the school buildings are in a bad state. There
are no decent lavatories and some reparations must be carried out
urgently. There are too many children in a classroom and there’s a lack
of teaching materials.
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| Again we are very impressed by the smooth and quick construction under the close supervision of Mrs. Bura.
Priorities for the next years are: 1. Finishing the lavatories that have partly been constructed by funds raised through the community (parents and Moivaro village). 2. Constructing a fence around the school in order to prevent students to walk in and out of the school premises and to have a way to control uninvited visitors. 3. Putting glass windows in the old classrooms. Especially in wintertime it can be freezing cold and the wind blows through the classrooms.
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| Boys | Girls | Total |
| 540 | 544 | 1088 |
Number of teachers June 2008
| Teachers (male) | Teachers (female) | Total |
| 3 | 18 | 21 |
Number of pupils who passes the national exams from 2002-2007
| Year | Registered exams | Pupils Passed | |||||
| Boys | Girls | Total | Boys | Girls | Total | % who passed | |
| 2002 | 43 | 50 | 93 | 15 | 13 | 28 | 30 |
| 2003 | 51 | 53 | 104 | 23 | 32 | 55 | 53 |
| 2004 | 53 | 66 | 119 | 29 | 28 | 57 | 48 |
| 2005 | 46 | 55 | 101 | 30 | 14 | 44 | 44 |
| 2006 | 46 | 51 | 97 | 40 | 32 | 72 | 74 |
| 2007 | 69 | 77 | 148 | 35 | 36 | 71 | 50 |
Unfortunately
the number of pupils who passed for the national exams dropped in 2007.
The reason for this is that three experienced teachers left the school.
Two of these teachers were teaching S7 students who had to be prepared
for the exams. The good news is that at this moment 5 new teachers have
joined the school. So we have high expectations of the S7 students who
will have their exams in two months time.
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