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Maeve Turner reports on sayari nyuki, the charity she started. During 2020, my charity, sayari nyuki, was able to continue working with Cheti NGO in Tanzania to support the most vulnerable in Arusha, and provide an education to over 1000 children...
Maeve Turner reports on sayari nyuki, the charity she started.
During 2020, my charity, sayari nyuki, was able to continue working with Cheti NGO in Tanzania to support the most vulnerable in Arusha, and provide an education to over 1000 children, including over 50 orphans.
Schools closed during the pandemic, meaning that some of our students went to homes where there was no food, and Cheti’s teachers and employees went without pay. Thanks to our eight regular donors and some welcome one-off donations, during this closure we provided the entire Cheti staff – 75 teachers, drivers, cooks, cleaners and security guards – with rice to feed their families.
When schools reopened, the combined seven Cheti schools had a 96% attendance rate on their first day. Since then, we received the wonderful news that Cheti Secondary School came 6th in the regional examinations.
In conversations with Zuma Mtui, Cheti’s director, I found out that school and our projects were the only support available for some of these children and vulnerable women throughout 2020 and 2021, as Tanzania continues to struggle with the ongoing effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
Project Poppy, the Promise of Proud Positive Youth, is another sayari nyuki initiative, supporting young people and disadvantaged women in Arusha. We are now supporting 20 widows in the Sokon 1 region with microfinance loans, enabling these women to start or expand their business
and support their families, some of whom are affected by HIV.
Currently, we are one of two international donors helping to fund Cheti schools and Project Poppy but our regular donations do not begin to cover the necessary expenses. You could change lives by becoming a regular donor – just $10/month – and we guarantee that your donation goes directly whichever project you nominate. Please visit our website to see what we and Zuma have achieved so far.
