Sponsoring a child in Terrawatu’s CSS program changes a child's education for the better. Through the payment of school fees, private tuition, and buying uniforms and books, child sponsorship enables a child to attend school and prepare effectively for examinations. Education is one path to success. When a child is sponsored a whole community is helped.
Imagine the effect if just one child goes on to become a professional or skilled person as a direct consequence of sponsorship. The one child, once an adult, will have a beneficial influence on his/her own family, and as a result, so will the extended family, and eventually the immediate local community in which that family resides. This is a mushroom effect. It is an extremely powerful way of achieving social change.
This is how Terrawatu’s Child-School-Sponsorship (CSS) Program has flourished.
We work directly in Tanzania with teachers at primary schools to identify promising female students at either the Standard 5 or 6 level (Grade 5 or 6).
Sponsors make a 7-year committment to the program. This long-term commitment is important for the goal of having more girls in Tanzania complete secondary school. Increasing the education level of women helps decrease family size, creating families that are relatively more financially secure.
One of the first students sponsored through Terrawatu's Child School Sponsorship Program went on to graduate from University of Dar es Salaam. A family from Seattle, Washington supported her education since primary school. She majored in Education and Language and is currently teaching at Ilkiding'a Secondary School.
For further information please contact us at info@terrawatu.org.