A small charity working with women and girls in Tanzania, Africa
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We help women and girls get the confidence and skills to help themselves with education, training and economic opportunities

We help girls get a secondary education with sponsorships, hostels and support because we know that a secondary education is the greatest contributor to eliminating early marriages and early motherhood; to reducing poverty drastically, to improving health outcomes, including HIV/AIDS, and to providing the skilled workforce that is so badly needed … read more »

We provide seminars and on going training in issues prioritized by women such as health and hygiene, budgeting, family planning, agriculture, legal rights and awareness because education is the first step to women's economic, social and political empowerment. As the following extract from the "World Development Report", 1993 so truly puts it. … read more »

We help fund income generating activities for women. We favour the formation of Income Generating Groups as we believe in the power of pulled, human as well as financial, resources. Groups around Ilongero are involved in various income generating activities including handicrafts, bee-keeping, chicken rearing, pot making and crop … read more »

Our dream is to build a hostel for girls near the secondary school of every village where a large number of capable girls are not at school simply because of distance, costs and increasingly danger. Hostels reduce the vulnerability of girls away from home whilst attending secondary schools by shielding them from gender violence when walking or … read more »

It is the project to end all projects in Ilongero and its surrounding hamlets. It is still a dream - You have the power to make it a reality. We are working towards building a progressive and self-sustainable training centre that will provide information, skills training & adult classes for all members of the Ilongero community and … read more »

Our long term project is to build a training centre but this is going to take time. So in the mean time we have decided to set up an office in the heart of Ilongero itself as the previous arrangements have not worked very well. It will be small but it will be manned, allowing people to get used to have a place where they can ask for advice. From … read more »
Nationally, the results of the CSEE exam (O-level, GCSE level equivalent) were the worst ever in the history of Tanzania, coming after a steady fall … read more »

The Abaya Luncheon Fashion Event taking place on 12th October in Dar es Salaam is the first fundraiser of Fatema Pardhan, a Tanzanian girl currently … read more »

12 of the girls staying at the hostel will start taking their final exams (GCSE's) between 8th and 19th October. We are all anxious to see if spending … read more »

At the end of June, Form 4 girls were offered a 3 day workshop in lifeskills. Our current volunteers, Nicole and Sarah did a great job in organising … read more »

On 15th April, Paul will be running the Bungay Blackdog Marathon and needs your support. He has today created a Just Giving page to help with his … read more »
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