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ILULA ORPHAN PROGRAM (IOP)

P.O.BOX 151, MAZOMBE IRINGA TANZANIA. WEB: www.ilulaorphanprogram.org

Project NEWSLETTER - January 2016 Sollerud Kindergarten Tanzania

Dear Friends,

Greetings from Ilula Orphan Porgram! We are happy to share with you the news

about our New Project Sollerud Kindergarten Tanzania. In this newsletter, we

have information about different activities and status on what took place at the

SKT for January 2016. Welcome for reading and sharing your ideas about this

special newsltter for Sollerud Kindergarten Tanzania.

Number of Kids At SKT

Sollerud Kindergarten Tanzania has been one of the important milestones for Ilula Orphan

Program and the community members in Ilula and nearby villages whose thirsty for quality

education service have been an issue. The school opened on 18TH January with 27 Kids to

start. The number of children has been increasing every day no matter the high season for

agriculture where by people use their money in the agricultural activities. Things do change

and ideas do change. The parents are looking for this opportunity. The number of children

has grown up to 45. More will come as they have booked for the space for their children to

come and learn different things. More kids are expected to come within in February 2016. We

thank donors for their great support and the parents for their great trust on IOP’s great works

on changing the lives of people. No change can happen without intensively investing in

education-quality education and facilities.

Inside of the building

The school is furnished with attractive classrooms furniture for the children to learn by seeing,

touching and doing. It is the first kindergarten in this area to have better teaching and learning

environment.

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Some kids sitting at the reception looking towards the entrance door

Children sitting in the classroom

Teaching

Sollerud Kindergarten Tanzania uses the Dr. Maria Montessori teaching methodology which

helping many children to learn and adapt to the environment quickly. The school has

different visual teaching and learning materials. The school will have different audio

materials for the purpose of learning quickly. Many locally-made materials are available for

easy understanding. Children are taught in English as its medium of instruction and Kiswahili

as a compulsory subject to teach. Different people are invited to be part of this very

important process for making children learn. The teaching staffs are educated and competent

in Montessori Teaching Methodology!

Outdoor playing field

Sollerud Kindergarten Tanzania has an outdoor playing unit which modern to our

environment. It is this uniqueness that makes children feel more comfortable to have a

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comfort place to play when having the break time. Thanks to the supporters for this

important arrangement and structure.

Official Opening day

The official opening of the school will be on March 3rd, 2016. The guest of honour will

be the Norwegian Ambassador to Tanzania. There will be many guests from inside and

outside Tanzania. Many IOP friends and the donor have confirmed their participation

during this important event.

School Bus

IOP will make changes or bring new thing to the life of the Ilula community that it’s

possible and encouraging for their children to school by bus. The bus will facilitate or

motivate the parents and children themselves to go to SKT and learn. Children will have

extended hours to be at school and learn. Parents will have more time to do economic

activities while having great time with children in the evening. IOP does not have its own bus

but has hired a school bus for two months while making fundraising activities to buy its own

bus. 20 % of the bus cost was already collected by the end of January 2016 from Synnøve and

Ole Kolstø, their families and friends in Norway. We are now looking for the remaining 80%.

Different fundraising activities will take place between February and April 2016. Different

people have started doing this important activity. The bus will cost 26,000USD!

A hired School Bus of which kids are using as seen in the photo above

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Young Mothers Empowerment Centre (YMEC)

The center has recruited 16 young mothers who will be at YMEC for one year in a program

learning different things and they attend three days per week. They are trained on child

development, nutrition’s issues, life skills, entrepreneur, microfinance, business trainings,

health and reproductive, gender and leadership. Most of young mothers (aged between 15

and 21 years) have children who need care all the time and during classes time it requires

them to enter in the classroom with their children which is a big challenge. The

To use this nice building for both Preschool and YMEC is great, and will contribute greatly

towards IOP’s Vision: New standard of living for the Tanzanian Community.

The center will act as an important Women information Center as well by empowering girls

(Single Young Mothers) to fully achieve health and life skills development. This will be guided

by the Ministry of Community Development, Gender and Children which sets the standards for

handling Single Young Mothers and Youth in particularly. The life that these single young

mothers, who are mostly secondary school dropouts, is really putting their children at the

highest risk to face big future challenges. Different stakeholders and interested partners are

invited to come and be part of empowering this growing community in our area!

God bless you for reading. We keep you all in prayers!

We learn from each other! New standard of living for the Tanzanian Community!

Any suggestion on this newsletter may be directed to; Edson Msigwa, edmsigwa@yahoo.com

Justine Mhanga: justinemhanga@yahoo.com

Lynnchristine Isote: glynntine@yahoo.com