Proud to Support the Losinoni Lunch Program!

Hello again!

I hope you enjoyed last week's update on the new Uganda projects. This week, we would like to take you on a trip to the village of Losinoni in Tanzania.

We recently sent out  a grant of $1,159 to help fund AfricAid's lunch program at Losinoni Primary School. AfricAid is a nonprofit organization that supports girls’ education in Tanzania in order to provide young women with the opportunity to transform their own lives and the futures of their communities.

The Losinoni community has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to the education of their children. They have partnered with AfricAid to build new classrooms, renovate existing classrooms and install solar electrical power in order to provide the students with improved learning environments.

In addition, the community has pooled its meager resources to hire a cook for the school, so that the lunch program can be provided during the entire school year. The community has also set aside land for growing maize to be used for the lunch program, in order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the program.  As such, the community has made the school lunch program a priority, both for the education and for the sustenance of its children, a community commitment that is critical for the long-term sustainability of the program. However, resources continue to be critically scarce in this rural, impoverished community.

With the ESTC grant, AfricaAid will be able to feed the 750 students at Losinoni Primary School for over 9 weeks. That's more than 34,000 lunches!

Thank you to our hosts for making this grant possible and thank you to AfricAid and the Losinoni community for their amazing work!

~ Michelle and the ESTC Team