Singer Giving

We took advantage of a staff member travelling out to Tanzania to deliver the overlocker in person to Kisarawe Girlstown. Within days, it was installed in the sewing room in the vocational training centre at Kisarawe Girlstown. Pictured right is the sewing machine in use, making new uniform skirts for more girls who will join the school.

The importance of sewing skills for girls’ education in Tanzania

Alongside the nationally accredited academic curriculum, the girls in Kisarawe all learn sewing and tailoring skills accredited by the Vocational Education Training Authority (VETA) of Tanzania. This gives them the skills they need to find employment in local companies, or start their own small businesses. Being skilled in sewing, pattern making, tailoring, and sewing machine repair and maintenance empowers young women and gives them confidence to live free from poverty. As sewing is an in demand skills-need of the local economy in Dar es Salaam, we are confident that many girls can find decent work in companies after graduating with their VETA certificates.

This year, the first group of Form 6 girls will graduate from Kisarawe Girlstown. The Sisters who run the school are actively looking for job placements for them to start working immediately after graduating. Sewing and tailoring skills are so valuable and having machines to practise and learn their craft on is so vital, thank you!

We hope that Singer Giving will continue to keep up with our work and be open to providing more support for projects like this in the future.

The Sisters welcome any child living in extreme poverty regardless of religion, gender or race. Under their care the most deprived boys and girls enjoy an accredited, value-led education that provides a sound framework for the development of capable, independent and empowered adults.

The Sisters are uniquely placed with over 60 years of experience and their strategic approach to care for children from the poorest communities in their programmes. Their skill and agile response to need makes them extremely qualified to provide the best possible education and care.

Making education sustainable

The programmes are modestly run and we work towards 9 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). The programmes deliver enormous economies of scale in the care of the children and significant long term, sustainable impact on poverty relief in the communities and countries where they operate. Graduates from the programmes go on to give back to their families and communities, in what we call the multiplier effect. Because of one child’s education, entire families and communities are transformed.