KilimanJaro Foundation
Emma Moye is a loving and dedicated primary school teacher at the Marangu School which sits at the base of majestic Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. In her class sit fifty-five bright eyed students, aged seven to twelve, eager to learn. Between them, they have five pencils to share, no notebooks, no textbooks, no art materials; just a blackboard and four precious pieces of broken chalk.
The team at Reli found this to be heartbreaking and unacceptable. So, we started the Kilimanjaro Children’s Foundation and immediately sent a shipment of school supplies to the children of Marangu. Now each child has pencils, pens, crayons, books and other basic supplies and Ms. Moye has that chalk that she needed.
Enthusiasm at the school is up and the kids are hungry to learn, so much so that they decided to start the construction of their very own library. Reli is proud to be working with the Marangu students to turn their dream into a reality.
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All of us have watched the devastating scenes from Africa from the comfort and safety of our homes: the famines in Niger, the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, the victims of civil wars in Uganda, Sierra Leone and devastated regions like Darfur, child soldiers barely old enough or tall enough to carry their weapons. And most of all, the haunting faces of children forced to become adults; children who will never know the freedom of an education or the joy of just being a kid.
We believe that the only hope for these children is through education. Reli and the Kilimanjaro Children’s Foundation are dedicated to help, one child at a time.