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News from the beginning of the new school year
Dear friends,
welcome in the new school year and we are sending you the news with the latest progress from our KiT organization.
In the last letter we informed you about Lydia and Godfrey successfully finishing their studies. We are still keep on supporting Jackelin. We started to support Emma, our Tanzanian coordinator, for the second time on his further studies and we started to support two fresh new student – Mariam and Naomi.
Mariam was accepted for studies in the government supported Msalato Girls High School (http://www.msalatosec.sc.tz/). In this school, the fees are low but the budget for buying the necessary school stuff went over 2 mil. TZA. We sent the money to Mariam on July 2nd 2020 and she started her studies on July 18th 2020. Mariam is sending greetings to all from Dodoma and on the Documents page, you can find some of her with bought school stuff.
Naomi was accepted for studying in very prestigious girl school Kilakala in Arusha (https://www.aaarushascience.co.tz). This school was searching for extraordinary talented students to whom the school was offering 100 % cover of the school costs (4 mil. TZA). Naomi was selected so we do not need to pay for her. But she still needs to buy the necessary equipment for her studies, books and uniforms in overall amount of 2,5 mil. TZA.
According to our rules we’ve sent her 2 mil. TZA to cover the majority of these costs. She is staying in the dormitory in Arusha what is luckily not too far from her home. She also started her studies on July 18th 2020 and her pictures can be found on the Documents page as well.
Just to refresh – Ema is studying a two years MS degree in Education Assessment and Evaluation (MEAE). The school fees are 10 mil. TZA. KiT will send him 2 mil. TZA for each year so 4 ml. TZA in total. Other costs will be cover by other sponsors and partially by Ema’s savings. Ema should finished his studies next year in October.
Another news is about the new way of sending the money to Tanzania by using mobile app World Remits. We already did try it and the transfer of the money was cheaper, more comfortable and faster comparing to Western Union. It is also offering better exchange rate. Using this app it is possible to send the money directly from the credit card. In Tanzania, the receiver gets the money directly in her or his virtual phone account. It is already well established and proven way of money transfer. Furthermore the first three transactions are completely fee free what already came handy ;)
The current amount on our bank account is 92,000 czk.
In October or November we’ll send the money to Jackeline. We were not able to get in touch with her in last days but we are suspecting failed or missing phone on her site. We’ll send more info from her in the next letter.
Thanks a lot for your continuous support! We really do appreciate it as well as the good news we are receiving thanks to KiT. It is even more valuable in these days than ever before.
Wishing you beautiful autumn days and stay safe and healthy!
Your KiT Committee
ELIMU NI NJIA mood