Our Programs
Sponsorship
A focal part of our programming for sustained impact is student sponsorship. Tanzania Education Corp. has paired sponsors with over 150 Tumaini students per year. Each annual sponsorship pays for tuition, academic support, room and board, uniforms, and school supplies for students with demonstrated financial need.
Alumni Monitoring
In order to track the success of our Tumaini Junior School graduates, we follow the paths of all our alumni. We invite them back to Tumaini Junior School twice a year to reconnect with one another and share the progress of their journey since their time at the Tumaini Schools. This ongoing project will help us assess our impact and determine how a Tumaini education sets our students apart in the future.
Expansion
As our student numbers continue to grow, our campuses have to grow along with them. Over the past 10 years, we have constructed over 30 classrooms on three campus sites. Today, the focus of our building is at Tumaini Senior Secondary School where we are adding facilities to support our new Form Five and Form Six students including dormitories, classrooms and highly equipped laboratories.
Enrichment Programs
To supplement the government curriculum, Tumaini Senior Secondary School offers additional classes for students to receive an enriched education. Tanzania Education Corp has recruited teachers to design and teach Information and Communications Technology and computer programming courses, as well as Project Based Learning courses (PBL). Some of our past and current PBL courses include: graphic novel writing, learning the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, researching the correlation between maize and malaria, expository writing courses, and coding with Python and Java.
Library
With a grant from Tauck World of Giving, Tanzania Education Corp. established a library at Tumaini Junior School. Stocked with books for every reading level, students are able to practice literacy skills and explore literary worlds. The activity center consists of games, newspapers, art supplies, and brain teasers for students to create and interact with one another.
At Tumaini Senior Secondary School, we also received a large grant and constructed a large, modern library with over a thousand books boasting a multitude of books from all genres. We are particularly proud of our Africa section that has books authored by laureates from across the diaspora.
Partners
Over the years, we have worked with partners in the health, technology, and education sectors to achieve our mission as an organization. Partners have contributed to school development in a number of ways including tech workshops, public health initiatives, and cultural exchange programming. We have been fortunate to sustain these partnerships at each stage of growth for the Tumaini Schools
Our Schools
Tumaini Junior School
Tumaini Junior School, our first school, started in 2004 with 17 students in the living room of Tumaini School’s co-founders, Modest and Lightness Bayo. Today, the primary school has over 600 students, 300 day students, and 300 boarding. Tumaini Junior School is an English Medium primary school, where English is the language of instruction for all learners.
Tumaini Junior has consistently ranked in the top 1% of all primary schools in Tanzania over the past decade, evidenced by the national exam given to the oldest grade annually.
Tumaini Senior Secondary School
The first three graduating classes from Tumaini Junior School attended government secondary schools. In most cases, these graduates were academically well advanced than their classmates and their subsequent education suffered. To solve this dilemma, the Bayos and Tanzania Education Corp embarked on a plan to build Tumaini Senior Secondary School (TSSS) in 2016. TSSS is an English-medium, STEM-focused, boarding school that offers all six years of Tanzanian secondary education. In its first year of national testing, TSSS ranked #1 in its district out of 24 secondary schools.
Tumaini TX Pre-Primary School
In 2017, with a grant from TX Corporation (Taiwan), the Bayos and Tanzania Education Corp opened a pre-primary campus to house the expanding younger student population. Tumaini TX Pre-Primary School follows the tradition of Tumaini Schools' other campuses as all classes are taught in English. Around 200 tiny learners are currently enrolled at Tumaini.
Our Impact
Tumaini Schools
Tumaini Junior School consistently ranks 1st in its district and in the top 1% of primary schools nationally
In its first year of testing, Tumaini Senior Secondary ranked 1st in its district
Over 1,100 students enrolled in 3 campuses
Tanzania Education Corps
• 10% of the student body receive scholarship aid
• Over 30+ classrooms built
2 well-resourced libraries to foster literacy
