Girls' Acces to Education Support Project
This project aims to promote and strengthen girls' access to education through the provision of scholarships, mentorship, and active community engagement. Supported by the Interhands Family Foundation, the initiative focuses on empowering vulnerable girls, including those at Vianzi Primary School, which has progressed from a satellite school into a fully registered institution now serving 120 pupils. The project also supports girls by providing learning materials, sanitary pads, and conducting advocacy on girls' rights, having reached 50 girls to date.
Girls' Education Support Sroject
SAWA is implementing this project in Mufindi District, Iringa Region, with support from the COTS World Foundation. The initiative aims to address barriers to education for rural girls by improving school infrastructure and increasing community awareness on the importance of girls' education. Key interventions include the construction of girls' hostels and the provision of essential school resources to create a safe and supportive learning environment. Progress so far includes: the completion of the Kasanga Girls Hostel with a capacity to accommodate 120 girls, provision of 40 beds and mattresses, installation of one water borehole to ensure access to clean water, and construction of sanitary toilets and a dining hall.
Gilr's Hostel at Kasanga Secondary-District Mufindi
Girls House at Kasanga Secondary School at constructed by SAWA in partnership with Costworld Foundation at Mufindi district
This program is implemented at Kasanga Secondary School in Kasanga Ward Mufundi district - Iringa. SAWA works with local communities to ensure they save girls from child pregnancies and help them to complete their studies by keeping them in safe places especially those who come from remote areas.
Supporting girls for successful completion of education and promotion of general life skills to boys and girls is a project funded by Cotswold Foundation of USA
Supporting girls for successful completion of education and promotion of general life skills to boys and girls is a project funded by Cotswold Foundation of USA. This project is community based, implemented by SAWA at Kasanga Ward within Mufindi district with the aim of promoting community participation in supporting girls' education using different holistic approaches. A significant number of girls at Kasanga ward face a number of households (Burden of domestic household's chores), community and school based challenges (Poverty at households and poor academic performance in school) that prevent them from successful completion of their education at Secondary school. This is a pilot project implemented through provision of a hostel capable of retaining 10 girls who will serve as role models at Kasanga Community Secondary school.
SAWA organized a community leaders' Meeting at Kasanga Ward
As part of sensitization, SAWA organized a community leaders' Meeting at Kasanga Ward (Ward Councillor, Ward Executive officer, Village Chairmen and Executive officers from Kasanga, Ihomasa, Kilolo, Udumuka and Lwang'a including heads of government departments at Ward and Village levels) aimed at introducing the project as well as seeking support from them. The project has received overwhelming support from the leaders through a joint resolution, where they have undertaken to offer support and sensitize community participation for successful implementation of this project. In order to ensure girls at the Ward successfully complete their education, it is planned by the leaders to have a girls' hostel at Kasanga Community Secondary School in the longer terms as a means to reduce risks that surround girls' education
Meeting between SAWA Officers and Kasanga local leaders about the progressive of Girl`s hostel at Kasanga secondary school Constructing by Sawa Wanawake (SAWA) in partnership with Costwold Foundation at Mufindi district-Iringa
Supporti The project is implemented with three components Promoting general life skills to girls and boys at Kasanga Community Secondary school
It was learnt during the formulation of this project that lack of general life skills among boys and girls at Kasanga Community Secondary school was among the root causes for school drop-outs, where girls were being more affected than boys. Provision of life skills to boys and girls is intended to furnish them with life skills that help reduce school drop-outs at Kasanga Community Secondary school. Boys and girls have been highlighted on self-awareness, empathy, effective communication, interpersonal relationships, how to manage emotions and cope with stress, how to think creatively and critically, decision making and problem solving. Reaction of the children during the briefing of the skills was positive and their participation in the discussions was live. Learning materials related to life skills for students' reference have been provided by the project
Students of Form I and II on life skills session at Kasanga Community Secondary in Mufindi District.
Promoting general life skills to girls and boys at Kasanga Community Secondary school
Progress has been made in the renovation of girls' hostel that has the capacity to accommodate 10 girls at the start. Kitchen, toilets and chickens' shelter are on progress. Ten girls who are at high risk of dropping due to various factors have been picked by Head of Kasanga Community Secondary school in collaboration with other teachers to live in the hostel. Parents' meeting was held, in which a committee of 5 parents was formed whose function is to ensure smooth running of the hostel including timely availability of food for the students at the hostel.
Income Generation Activity (IGA)
The third component is the poultry project which is aimed at generating income for subsidizing running costs of the hostel which include Matron's allowance and electricity bills. Construction of the chickens' shelter is on progress and the chickens will be bought as soon as the shelter is completed. The IGA is also intended to train the girls on self-reliance through entrepreneurship skills.
The first room of the right hand new building is the chicken shelter. 70 Chickens will be raised in to subsidize running costs for the hostel
