Tanzania container enroute
Submitted by tanderson on Fri, 04/24/2009 - 5:48pm.
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Volunteers succeed in raising $11,648 to Sponsor part of the shipping and sourcing costs for 253 computers that were shipped on the 2nd of April ~ eCorps to follow 10 July! |
WCE's Programme Officer for Tanzania, Emma Shercliff, met with 15 WCE Partners in Tanzaniain Dar es Salaam to discuss plans for the 2009 annual shared and Sponsored container for Tanzania. They also discussed the four WCE Partners that host work sites for WCE eCorps tech volunteers in July of 2009.
Based on those plans, Emma Shercliff worked with other WCE volunteers to find Sponsors to donate a total of $11,648 toward part of the sourcing and shipping costs for this shipment. This reduced the matching costs for our Partners.
As a fund raiser in November, Emma and her husband Simon Shercliff rode their bicycles along the 186 mile length of the Cheasapeake and Ohio Canal. People donated by the mile that they completed for a total of $4,900. The final $1,400 was donated in February by United Kingdom Donors for Tanzania Computer Project 2009 ~ raised by Pankaj Doshi.
$11,648 in Sponsor funds were contributed by the following: Friends of Simon and Emma Shercliff, Sheila Dilworth, Pankaj Doshi, Jaffer Kermalli, Surendra Mehta, Methodist Central Hall Westminster, Rockland Community Church, Tanzanian Friends in UK, Teachers for East Africa Alumni, Frank Weisensee, and Pam Wolfe.
The following 12 WCE Partners are receiving computers in this shared and Sponsored container:
- Anglican Diocese of Mpwapwa (in Mpwapwa) Rev. Dr Chimelydia, Bishop ~ Implementation Plan (VSO-assisted )
- Ebenezer Girls Secondary School of Ngaramtoni Lutheran Church (in Arusha) Lucy Wilfred, Headmistress ~ Implementation Plan (Sponsored by Rockland Community Church)
- Elimika
- Faraja Orphans Rescue Ministry (in Musoma) Samuel Mpanilehi, Executive Director ~ Implementation Plan (WCE eCorps July work site)
- Global Outreach (in Iringa) Sam Muessle, Director ~ Implementation Plan (3rd shipment)
- Moshi Institute Of Technology (in Moshi)
- New Life Community Church (in Musoma) Bishop Daniel Ouma ~ Implementation Plan
- Small Industries Development Organization (in Dodoma) Martin Mucuthi ~ Implementation Plan (VSO-assisted)
- Tumaini
- University of
- YES Tanzania Network (in Dar es Salaam) Kaanaeli Kaale, Coordinator - a WCE global Strategic Ally
This was WCE's 6th shipment to Tanzania and our 121st.
The average annual income in Tanzania is $1,300 and about 1% of the people are currently using the Internet.
eCorp trip planned for July 2009. We are beginning to recruit 10-12 tech volunteers for a two-week trip to Tanzania to happen after the container arrives. The team will receive 2 days of orientation in Dar es Salaam and then divide up into teams to assist Moshi Institute of Technology, Good Hope Program, and St. Francis School . These three have received computers from WCE before. If you are interested please visit eCorps Tanzania page and contact:eCorps@WorldComputerExchange.org
If you wish to donate to the next planned shared and Sponsored shipment, please include the note "Tanzania".
BY CHECK: If you wish to donate to this shipment via a check on a bank in the USA or Canada, please include the note "Tanzania" on your check and mail it to: WCE 936 Nantasket Ave. Hull, Mass. 02045 USA.
BY PAYPAL: If you have a PayPal account, you can also give via PayPal if you have set up an account with them (their fee is 2.9%) - please send us an e-mail at Tanzania@WorldComputerExchange.org when you do so it is properly credited.
BY CREDIT CARD: If you are going to use the Network For Good link below, please enter "Tanzania" in one of the boxes on the form. Emma Shercliff has also arranged for a different site for European donors.
FIRSTGIVING: (good if outside the USA): http://www.firstgiving.com/emmashercliff
PEACE CORPS: If you are a family or friend contributing for computers for a community assisted by a Peace Corps Volunteer - please enter both "Tanzania" AND the name of the PCV whom you are helping.
We will send you a tax deductible receipt if you are in the USA. Our affiliate WCE-Canada can send you ar receipt if you donate to them. We send a cc to Emma Shercliff so that she will know who has donated to his project.
| Total Needed: | $11,648 |
| Funds Received: | $11,648 |
REPORT ON 2008 TANZANIA SHARED SHIPMENT:
A year ago 22 individuals generously donated funds to help Sponsor a container of 237 donated used computers gathered and tested by a team led by Michael Rogers, an Eagle Scout Candidate in Omaha, Nebraska to 16 schools with 3,300 students in several communities across Tanzania. The computers arrived around the 4th of July 2008 and then took some time to get installed in the schools.
The photo above is of representatives of the schools come to claim their computers.
One of the groups that received computers in this container was Global Outreach www.GlobalOutreachTanzania.org. Stan Muessel is the leader. They now are able to run computer programs in the following 8 schools with 400 students in Iringa: Pommern, Image, Mtera, Lugalo, Cagliero, Iringa Girls, Mawelewele, Ifunda. They will be receiving more computers in the 2009 container.
Teachers for East Africa Alumni, http://www.tea-a.org/ another group we have shipped to previously in Kenya and Uganda, received computers in this container for Moringe Sokoine Seconary School with 450 students in Monduli. N Kwayu is the headmaster. They also received computers for the 450 students of the Ngarenaro Girls Secondary School in Arusha that is led by Sister Mary Shaija.
The other computers went to the following six schools: Enyoito Secondary School (600 students), Hady Academy Primary School (400 students), Daraja Mbili Secondary School (500 students), Kipande Secondary School (200 students), Mwandet Secondary School (200 students), and Loruvani Catholic Church (100 youth).
DONORS: Denise Reno, Emily Dimaggio, Greg Thomas, Robert Dohrenwend, Judith & Glenn Stewart, Roberto Sobrino, Tom Graham &Mary Kay Sigaty, Carl Katzeff, Mark Newell, William Schmidt, J. William Harris, Ryan Wright, Gill Family Fund, Kendall & Christine Smith, Brian Corcoran, Ching Weng, James Littlefield, Nicola Beddow, Arpita Pathak, Henry Thairu, Meghan Trossen and Emma Shercliff.
