Red Sweater Project collaborates with developing communities to create affordable, accessible and advanced educational opportunities for children in rural Tanzania.
Red Sweater Project believes that true, sustained development is inspired through collaboration and education -‐ the keys to breaking the cycle of aid dependency, and instead generates homegrown, innovative solutions. Progress is sustained through partnerships that leverage individual skills and technologies toward economic advancement, ecological sustainability, and improvement in health and quality of life.
Red Sweater Project’s Founder and Executive Director, Ashley Holmer, has dedicated her career to building schools for children in rural Tanzania. Fluent in the local language of Swahili, Ms. Holmer has been living and working amongst the tribespeople of East Africa for the past 10 years. By age 27, she built her first secondary school in Lashaine Village, which provides education to over 220 students each year who otherwise would not be in class.
In 2012, Red Sweater Project opened Mungere Secondary School, the first of its kind in the village, and currently enrolls 90 and will grow to a student body of 300.
WHY EDUCATION?“There is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls.” - Kofi Anon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
“An extra year of secondary schooling has been demonstrated to increase women’s future wages by 10-20%.” - World Bank, Millennium Development Goals
“Countries with the lowest number of girls in education lie at the bottom of the human development tables.” - Organization for Economic Co-operation & Development
“Education of girls is the single most important investment that can be made in the developing world.” - Lawrence Summers, former World Bank Chief Economist & US Treasury Secretary
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HOW CAN YOUTH BE EMPOWERED?
TANZANIA
BY THE NUMBERS
Percentage of children who
complete high school
Number of doctors for
every 33,000 citizens
Shortage of certified
school teachers
85,000
1
7%
45Age of life
expectancy
Red Sweater Project has partnered with the villagers of Mungere Village in rural Tanzania to build Mungere Secondary School, the community’s first secondary school. Here’s how YOU can help:
• SPONSOR! Whether purchasing bricks for construction of a school computer lab or the red sweater of a student uniform, become a project
or student sponsor and be part of the education movement.
•DONATE SUPPLIES Red Sweater Project saves
over $10,000 each year through the contribution of donated new and used school supplies from our supporters.
•VISIT US IN TANZANIA Mungere Village sits at the edge of the Great Rift Valley escarpment, nestled between beautiful Lake Manyara National Park, the famous Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area and Serengeti Plains. Email us your travel dates and we’ll help coordinate your visit!
•JOIN US! Red Sweater Project is a team of educators, engineers, health professionals, community organizers, designers, entrepreneurs, film makers, athletes, web developers, investors, composers, soccer moms, artists and administrators who all donate their time and talents. We know that the only way we can accomplish the goal of putting an end to world poverty is if everyone plays a part.
For more information, visit www.redsweaterproject.org
NEEDS LIST
SCHOOL
SUPPLIES • PENS & PENCILS
• WHITEBOARD MARKERS
• SUBJECT TEXTBOOKS
• ART SETS, PAINT &
BRUSHES
• COLOR MARKERS
• CRAYONS & COLORED
PENCILS
• CONSTRUCTION PAPER
• STAPLERS & STAPLES
• STORYBOOKS
• YOUNG ADULT READERS
• ACADEMIC &
INSPIRATIONAL POSTERS
• WORLD MAPS & ATLASES
• PRINTER PAPER
• PENCIL SHARPENERS
• COMPASSES & PROTRACTORS
• MATH & READING
FLASHCARDS
• ACADEMIC GAMES
ATHLETIC SUPPLIES • VOLLEYBALLS
• BASKETBALLS
• STOP WATCHES
HEALTH SUPPLIES
• HYDROCORTISONE
• COLD/FLU MEDICINE
• TOOTHPASTE &
TOOTHBRUSHES
• BAND-AIDS & GAUZE
• COUGH DROPS
• HYDROGEN PEROXIDE
• ANTACIDS
• HAND SANITIZER
OTHER SUPPLIES • TEACHING RESOURCES
• DUCT TAPE
• STICKY TACK
• SOLAR LAMPS