News
Report on what's goin' on
Dear KiT followers,
despite the not-so-easygoing times we are sending you some news from KiT and also some short info on what’s going on in Tanzania.
As you may know last year we stopped supporting Godfrey who successfully finished his studies on Social Institute in Dar-es-Salam. He returned to Moshi where he worked as a volunteer.
Also Rose has successfully finished her studies in last autumn and now she is gaining experiences at KCMC hospital in Moshi.
And even earlier that year it was Lydia (Kazungu) who is currently working in TPC hospital in Moshi as senior midwife.
From the formerly supported students we keep on supporting just Jackline who keeps on studying architecture.
On the members meeting in last year’s August we talked about supporting new students. According to our current amount of money on our bank account, we are convinced that we are able to accept three new students.
In the middle of the last year we were told by Ema, our KiT coordinator in Tanzania, that he would like to continue with higher education. As we have already informed you on the members meeting in August 2019 and in January 2020 we decided to support him. Ema assigned him and already have entered the Master of Education in Educational Assessment and Evaluation in Mwenge University (MWECAU). It should take two years for him to finish it and it will increase his qualification. This should help him to have more and better opportunities in education and life as well.
Starting in January through March we were focusing on the new candidates classification and choosing the best ones to support. We received five essays from Ema. The best candidate for us so far is very gifted girl Mariam with excellent study results and also with well written motivation essay. We were not so convinced by the rest of the candidates either due to their school results or due to not so persuading essay. But we were approached by Ema who advised us another candidate – Naomi, the daughter of Veny’s elder sister Anna. She’d like to enter the A-level studies this year as well. We were truly impressed by her education results, they are equal to those of Mariam. So we asked her to write for us the motivation essay. Based on these facts we agreed that she will be perfect candidate for KiT support as well. All essays and details of all the candidates are available on the Documents page.
We have sent two mil TZA to Ema at the beginning of March.
We keep on supporting Jackelin. She still has two more year to finish her studies. We sent her the money for the last year in October 2019 and we are going to send her another two millions in October this year. She applied for the government support for the studies but she has received the support for the food and accommodation only so far.
Our current bank account balance is 100k czk after sending the money to Ema in March. Once we will send, the money to Jackelin (25k czk, 2 mil TZA) we still will have 75k czk. If we are going to support two more students, it will cost us another 50k czk. So we still should have some reserve (cca 25k czk).
Unfortunately the Corona virus hasn’t missed Africa either. Currently the schools in Tanzania are closed. There were some attempts to start the online education at least for the University students but due to the not sufficient equipment, it was not a success.
In our own view the Tanzania government is not dealing with the disease with appropriate respect and their safety recommendations are not sufficient. There is no restriction to the people on the contrary going to church is not advised. The facemasks are not recommended, it is more the other way and people do not share the same opinion about them. The healthcare is prepared for such situation but that is the same all over the world. People are taking resort in inhaling the medicinal herbs found in the forest.
We informed our current as well as the former students about the recommendations in our country and we advised them to buy some analgesics and disinfection supplies.
Nobody knows what is going to happen and everybody just hope that the black visions will not come through.
Your KiT Committee
ELIMU NI NJIA mood