Our vision is to educate girls in a day/boarding nursery school through secondary school in a Christian English-medium alternative educational system to enable them to become economically independent and future leaders of Tanzania.

There are four factors present in the current Tanzanian educational system that are motivation for our sisters to want to start a school in Tanzania:

1. The educational picture for females in Tanzania is grim. Few surpass the equivalent of an eighth grade education. Girls are taught from their youth that they are not as bright or capable as boys in school, especially in science and math. In families, even if a daughter is an excellent student, the sons are chosen first to attend secondary school. In most secondary co-ed classrooms throughout Tanzania, boys make up 85% - 90% of the student body. The few girls present are passive in the midst of their predominantly male counterparts.
2. In Tanzania, Swahili, the national language, is used in classrooms in primary schools. Yet at the beginning of Secondary School, English is used for teaching. For many reasons, this system is not useful, and the Tanzanian government is reevaluating its efficacy. In the meantime, we believe that while learning the national language is necessary, students need an English medium education from primary school onward. This will give them an advantage in entrance exams to University, all in English.
3. Lack of education leads to economic dependence, which causes great stress when families separate. If a home is abusive, the dependent women are unable to escape it. In some cases she is removed from the home, and the husband remarries quickly, with no responsibility from the government to pay child support. She is left alone to support herself and her children.
4. In order to maintain the school, it will be necessary to have students who can pay school fees. Nevertheless, because there are now over 1,000,000 orphans in Tanzania due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, we are dedicated to having 20% of our boarders be orphans in need.

Literacy Statistics

males: 85.9% females: 70.7% (2003) (statistics appear inflated, lower percentage of population is literate in the rural population)
from: http://education.yahoo.com/reference/factbook/tz

Objectives

• To facilitate the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual development of the female youth of Tanzania.
• To help girls acquire the education necessary to become economically independent if needed.
• To help female students develop skills and talents, equipping them with the knowledge, maturity, and confidence to pursue their dreams.
• To assist orphans with educational needs, especially in this time of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
• To assist students who are born with HIV to have access to the medical care (i.e. drug treatment, counseling) they need and deserve.
• To initiate the teaching of English at nursery school level, continuing intensively through primary and secondary Schools, thus giving our students a competitive edge in the pursuit of their dreams and goals.
• To create vocational opportunities for our students upon graduation with a focus on bookkeeping, secretarial skills, and advanced IT computer skills.
• To protect female youth from physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse from their relatives, guardians, and even teachers.