NGO (Tansania Fordervein e.V) Strives to Improve School Learning Environment

NGARENANYUKI High School students can now smile while enjoying a conducive learning environment created when a Germany charity organisation offered them state-of-the-art facilities.

The organisation, Tansania Fordervein e.V, together with its partners and friends, sponsored construction of classrooms, teachers' houses, a library, installed solar panels and other facilities worth 460,000 Euros for the school which is located at the border of Kilimanjaro and Arusha regions.

Ms Ursula Brandt from the NGO said they are after every school in Tanzania to have the best education facilities and good learning environment, so that students can do well in their studies and have good life in future.

She said the facilities were put in place under different projects and added that the books they offered this week to the school are worth 32.6m/. Ten classrooms, two residential houses for teachers and other facilities were constructed. The charity has been sponsoring the school since 2006.

"We started partnership with this school in 1998 under a school called Kopernikus Gymnasium Bargteheide that I was working with in Germany and since then we have established our charity organisation called Tansania Fordervein e.V that collects some funds for the school," she said.

They also offered funds that were used in projects such as water and sanitation so that students are prevented from communicable disease and concentrate entirely on studies instead of wasting some time in treating preventable diseases.

Tansania Fordervein e.V is in partnership with media institutions back in Germany and they are the ones who volunteered money to buy books for the school that is owned and run by The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania (ELCT), Meru Diocese.

Speaking about the donation in particular and generally about the support they get from the Germany NGO, ELCT Meru Diocese Bishop, Dr Paulo Akyoo said the donations were massive and have changed the school altogether.

Mr James Somi who is the school's headmaster, commended the role played by all benefactors and requested for more support, so that the school remains sustainable in educating Tanzanian sons and daughters.

He said their support is not in vein as it has since helped so much for students to excel in their examinations in the region and nationally and promised better results in future.