Pearl Kindergarten

Ready for the second year

Category: Pearl Kindergarten
Created: 20 June 2016
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Pearl Kindergarten opened for 2016 on January 5th with 18 kids; this with the changes in the government policy of not having any kids above four years at a nursery school as 5 year olds are to join government run schools. The kindergarten closed for the first term holidays for three weeks and opened again for the second term in April. With the government crackdown on poorly run schools, we are happy that Pearly Kindergarten was given a green light to operate and the kindergarten is facing the issue limited space to accommodate the big numbers of kids as we currently have only two classrooms and one trained teacher.

After one full year of serving the mothers and children of Moshi, we are thankful that the local government has supported our goal of educating the community and that parents trust us with their children. The ongoing challenge we have is the limited teaching space and the need to have the playground swings and slides for the kids. Will you support our work in prayer or with your donation?


Kindergarten Update

Category: Pearl Kindergarten
Created: 13 September 2015
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We are now in our 5th month since we opened doors to receive children into the nursery. We are witnessing the numbers grow steadily. We currently have 4 staff, 1 paid teacher, and 1 helping with the cooking of the porridge, a gardener / guard and volunteer classroom teacher.

Due to an increase in children numbers and challenges getting good qualified teachers, True Grasses has found a sponsor to help send one of the volunteer teachers to study a one year early childhood teachers course. She joined in July and she will finish in June 2016 when she will return to the nursery school as one of the main teachers. In the mean time she came back to help out for one week while she was having holidays from her studies. We closed the school for 2 weeks in the month of August for a short holiday.

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A new start

Category: Pearl Kindergarten
Created: 30 June 2015
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The first True Grasses school has opened its doors! With Pwani Hope School in the Kisarawe district being our main project, it is obvious that the implementation of such a big project takes a lot of time. While we are working step by step on the progress of Pwani Hope School - almost all our efforts go into that project - we are happy to announce good news from another area in Tanzania.
 
The local church that we work with in Kilimanjaro area and Tanzania in general requested True Grasses to help start a project that would help the surrounding community where the church serves. Together with the church elders and after consulting with the community, True Grasses concluded that starting a kindergarten would not only help the young children who roam around the streets waiting to reach the age of 7 to go to school, but also their mothers who can now go and do/find jobs.