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URU Community Pre & Primary School
After seeing the lack of quality primary education in Tanzania and absence of any education institution for children under seven, Neema International had to take action.
Uru Community Pre and Primary School (Uru Academy) is more than a school, it is a community-based poverty alleviation project that aims to break the cycle of unemployment, poor health, high fertility, and crime by providing crucial educational and health resources to children and their families.
The Need
Uru is home to over 7000 people who live on less than a dollar a day, with no access to running water or electricity nor proper healthcare. Children are not eligible to attend government school until seven, where they are victims of atrocious teacher-student ratios and poor-quality curriculum. Corporal punishment is practiced in the vast majority of these classrooms, further hindering them from success. Delivering poor English instruction in the early years that translates to high drop-out rates in secondary school.
These problems are exacerbated by the high birth rates of the community, with mother’s averaging more than five children each. These rates leave many children orphaned, without the healthcare, education or positive support they need to escape the cycle.
Our Solution
Uru Community Pre and Primary School is a sustainable, full-service early childhood facility that responds to the needs of the community. Neema International designed Uru Community Pre and Primary School to stop the cycle of poverty before it begins, by providing for babies as young as six months to children of ten years. The school consists of six classrooms, currently educating about one-hundred children.
‘Full-service’ describes the many services beyond education we provide to the community, including healthcare, food and water, clothing and social work services.
Neema International
P.O. Box 1171
Moshi, Tanzania
info@neemainternational.org
