Empowering Women Through Education
Girls in Tanzania are highly vulnerable to leaving school before completion. The lack of early education leaves Tanzanian women wanting for basic skills and struggling to provide opportunities for their own children.
Education plays a vital role in women's ability to create the lives they want, for themselves and their families. Education opens doors to job opportunities, increased income, higher education, and improved living conditions. Most importantly education gives women choices.
Why GHTA? It's About
Giving Women Choices
What's Our Story?
We are a non-profit organization that provides free education to women through our school based in Moshi, Tanzania. We are registered with the governments of both Canada and Tanzania.
Our beginnings...
After volunteering and travelling in several countries in Africa our Executive Director was struck by the incredible imbalance that existed between the opportunities that were available to women in Canada, and those living in African countries.
In 2007, she volunteered with a charity that helped women in Tanzania. She fell in love with the country and its people, and grew to appreciate the needs of women there. She felt passionately about returning to Tanzania to provide women with more access to education, so they could be empowered to build the life they want to create for themselves and their families. Give a Heart to Africa was founded in April 2009.
Our ongoing story….
Give a Heart To Africa continues to empower women through education. More then 700 women have graduated with skills in business, English, and vocations (hair braiding, soap making, batik, jewelry, candle making, sewing and knitting). Women have gone on to open their own businesses, attend post secondary education, have the skills and confidence to help their children with homework, and find gainful employment. Want to know more? Check out Get to Know Us or Get Involved.
Volunteer Testimonial
So far I have volunteered in Tanzania at Give a Heart to Africa twice and am currently planning my third trip. It is a wonderful organization in a beautiful country with the most welcoming people. Unlike many organizations it is 100% volunteer run. You can see the impact GHTA is having on the present and former students on a daily basis. I highly recommend GHTA to anyone looking for a quality international volunteering experience.
Janet, USA