Help to make a young student’s dream a reality
Although Give A Heart To Africa accepts mostly women over 30 into our Adult Education Centre, we do accept a number of younger students as well. Many of these younger students have had their education interrupted. Often a parent has left, became unable to work, or passed away. When one of these things happens, the family often does not have the money to continue classes for their children who are already in school. The younger students who are accepted by GHTA are passionate about gaining more education and ensuring a stable future for themselves and their families. After completing our six-month course, a few of the best and brightest young students want to go back to highschool.
Without secondary school education, it is extremely difficult to get a job in Tanzania. How will our youngest students survive, let alone thrive? We want to help them. And you can be part of the solution. By sponsoring a student for further education, you will help to break the cycle of poverty in Tanzania. Students who graduate from secondary school are significantly more likely to be able to get a job with good wages.
Below are some of the students who are hoping to be sponsored. They want to follow the path of education to a new, more empowered life.
Miraji – 27 years old
Miraji was orphaned at a young age but despite his difficult childhood he became an outstanding young man. He is a devoted husband and father to his son and daughter. He has worked very hard to support his family and was thrilled to have the opportunity to come to our school. Him and his friend Miraji used to study together at night by candle light donated by their friends. When he came to our school he was refusing to speak English but quickly overcame his shyness and was one of the most improved students in our English class. Miraji hopes to start a small music/CD store.
Total cost = $750
Sponsor Miraji
Hadija Lewanga – 32 years old
Hadija is a woman with a big heart. She is raising her two children as well as her brother’s child and helps to take care of relatives. Her husband works very hard but it is not enough to support their extended family.
Hadija’s family did not have much money thus she was able to complete only Primary School. However, she is very intelligent and determined and proved to be a very good student, always striving to learn more.
She hopes to increase her family’s standard of living by starting a chicken business. Chickens are very much in demand in the area and Hadija’s idea is to buy and freeze chickens and then sell them at profit to restaurants and hotels. For this, she needs a capital to purchase a used freezer and chickens.
Cost of freezer: 600,000 Tsh = $415. Cost of 70 chickens: 315,000 Tsh = $218
Sponsor Hadija
Happiness – 28 years old 
Happiness is a single mom, doing a great job raising her little girl on her own, hoping to be able to offer her a better life than she had. Happy was born to great poverty, when her father passed away she was sent to live with her aunt and was unable to continue with her education. Her hope is to be an Early Childhood Educator.
Cost of 1 year certificate: 1,000,000 Tsh = $750
Sponsor Happiness
Hidaya – 23 years old 
Hidaya is a 23 year old single mom, she lives with her mother and grandmother in one of the poorest neighbourhood in Moshi. She is a very bright young woman and she graduated as one of our top students. Hidaya is now in a position to get a job in a store, however, she is capable of a lot more than that. Her hope is to become an accountant
University certificate cost: $1000 per year
Sponsor Hidaya
Severa Samba – 21 years old
Severa is a quite young woman, she rarely speaks up in a group setting but she is hiding a great intellect behind all that shyness. Because her family was not able to afford to send her to High School, she completed only Elementary School. However, she is self-taught and is almost fluent in English; she told us how she read books, magazines and newspapers to learn the language.
Both of Severa’s parents passed away as did all of her mother’s siblings and her grandmother was left to provide for all of her grandchildren. Severa now lives with her sister who is a single mother and wishes to contribute to her new family household.
Severa hopes to go to a hotel management school as the tourist industry offers good employment to many Tanzanians.
Cost of hotel management school: $600 per year
Halima graduated from our school in March 2011 and her dream is to become a journalist. We were able to find a sponsor for her first year of studies and are still in search of a sponsor for her second year. Halima lives with her mom and younger sister. They get up at 4am to cook doughnuts in the morning before Halima goes to school and her sister then sells them on the street. Their father passed away a few years ago, his family shunned them and took all of their possessions. The 3 of them now live in a tiny room, share a bed and spend most of their time outside as their living accommodation is too small for them to relax in. Their mom has diabetes and is currently almost immobile so Halima and her sister try their best to take care of her and make her feel comfortable.
Halima’s dream to become a journalist would not only help her but also her sister and mother. She would like to get a two year diploma in journalism, the cost per year is $1,ooo. We realize this is a high cost for an individual so we can combine several contributions together or perhaps a group of co-workers or family members may choose to improve Halima’s and her family’s standard of living.
Sponsor Halima
Mathayo – 38 years old 
Mathayo he has two beautiful children and is a very good father and husband. He works as a photographer; he owns a very old film camera, he walks around town and asks people if they want to get their ID picture taken or he attends celebrations and gets attendees buy his photos. To develop photos adds to his of running business so he hopes for a sponsor to donate a digital camera and printer. He now supports his family on approximately $1/day so this donation would be of tremendous help to him and his family.
