Posts Tagged ‘empowerment’
Balmoral’s Salty Crocs Swim 85km For Our Girls
Members of the Balmoral based swimming group “Salty Crocs”, Terri Anderson, Danielle Pringle and Sarah Laverty are among a growing community who are joining forces to raise funds and participate in our 1HumanRace challenge. 1HumanRace has been designed to raise awareness of the challenges faced by vulnerable girls in East Africa and enable them to…
Read MoreLetter Writing Tips for Student Sponsors
Our students LOVE receiving letters from their sponsors. Their faces light up as they read and learn about the amazing person who has generously decided to support them and their community to change their future through the power of education. We’ve put together some top tips for letter writing that we hope will guide you…
Read MoreOur Founding Project Transitions to “Sustained” Phase
12 years ago Cass Treadwell was visiting a Kenyan Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp when she was asked by the community to build a school. Within a year, Cass Treadwell, Keri Chittenden and their friends had banded together and raised the funds to do just that. The school, Aberdare Ranges Primary School, became the founding…
Read MoreSparking joy in education through our Let’s Learn project
Meet Lightness, a 24 year old teacher at Endakiso Primary School, one of our Core schools in Tanzania. Lightness teaches Pre-Primary, Standard 1 and Standard 2 students. Lightness has been a teacher at the school since 2018 and takes great pride in her work. She has been partnering with So They Can to implement our…
Read MoreStudents find their voice and take a stand for their right to education
Omary, 8, is a Standard 1 student at Manyara Primary School in Galapo. Like many of his friends, he loves to read, play sports and games. He’s the second born of his father’s family but lives with his step-mother as his father is busy with work. When So They Can’s team met Omary in 2018,…
Read MoreCreating food and economic security for schools through our Shamba Letu project
In Tanzania, approximately 67% of the population work in the agriculture sector. Despite the Manyara region being a food crop producing region, 36% of the population still suffers from malnutrition. The government is trying to combat this problem by providing schools with up to 10 acres of farmland, yet less than a third of this…
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