Bright Future School
Masoka, Tanzania
Local Partner: Attorney Timothy Massawe
International Partner: Luena Fondation
Project Description: Complete School Building and construct Toilets
Project Year: 2024
Need for Toilets
Please find the attached files for Masoka Public School. It is a government school with over 800 pupils. The school does not have toilet facilities and the ones they are using are too old and risk for the kids because they are pit latrine. Imagine the risk of the rain. In Tanzania some of the old toilets have collapsed,we recently witnessed the collapse of the Kirima toilets due to heavy rain. The government has discouraged the pit latrines in schools for that reason.
The school needs new toilets. We came up with the plan of building 8 toilets, urinal trough for the boys, and a changing or sanitary room for girls. The cost of building this toilet as you can see from the cost breakdown is 24,592,240.
The school together with the community have committed to raise 4500,000 equivalent to $ 2,000. We are looking for $8,000 to build the toilets now.
History of Bright Future School
Bright Future School is a bridge for low-income families and unprivileged children from a very poor background by offering a good quality education in a safe and conducive learning environment. Bright Future School has started from Nursery up to Primary level with a limited number of students per class in order to give them proper education. With the new and clean environment, both the pupils and teachers are given proper environment to work comfortably and efficiently. Our school helps the families in a very poor background by offering scholarship. Teachers get proper continual training to update their skills in order to improve the understanding of the students in general.
With the accessibility of the different activities and school materials, students have discovered their talents and potential learn effectively. The school offers different activities to expand their knowledge through the use of technology like watching educational movies and science experiments which the public schools cannot offer. Extra-curricular activities are available for the students to develop their interests and skills. Children get the proper nutrition as the school provides the balance diet for the children as the school grows vegetable and fruits around the school compound.
Need for more Classrooms
Since its establishment in January 2022, the number of students from different backgrounds has increased hence the need to add more classrooms. The two classrooms under construction will serve approximately 60.
The school began in January 2022 with 24 students in 2 classrooms. There are now 70 students of which majority are from the underprivileged families who are being sponsored by the school thanks to generous sponsors. There are additional students who have applied to Bright Future for 2024 but there is currently insufficient space to accommodate them. If completed, the 2 new classrooms under construction would satisfy growing demand by serving approximately 60 new students by 2024 (for a total of 130 students).
Should the additional classrooms not be completed in due course, the existing 2 classrooms will be overcrowded and next year the school will be unable to move students to their required level of grade two and three. This would be a lost opportunity to serve the majority of students in need, especially those from underprivileged families. Thus, Bright Future urgently needs funding to complete the 2 classrooms.