How You Can Help

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If you wish to donate directly to the school

By clicking the link below you will be directed to our Everyclick fundraising page. Here you will also find details of current fundraisers, Gemma Enolengila and Joanna Marsh . You can donate through their projects by clicking on on the links to 'Noonkodin Secondary School' or 'Jo Marsh, Henley Swim.' You can also donate in other ways as indicated on the page - including becoming a fundraiser yourself by clicking 'Sign Up'

Link to Fundraising Page: http://www.everyclick.com/serianuk/info

You can become a sponsor of one or more of the students ar Nookodin.

In March 2010 we received this list of students who are in desperate need of sponsorship at the school. If you can help any one of these, or the many other students at the school, please click the link below for sponsorship details.

DAY STUDENT:

Musheni Ngwaru – Age 19. His father is a Maasai pastoralist with seven wives and a huge number of children. His family lives in Emairete village, close to the school. There are six children currently at secondary school and his father is struggling to pay the fees for all of them. In the past they had many cattle, so it was easy to sell a few in order to raise the money for school fees. However owing to the drought, many cattle have died and also livestock prices have fallen, so it is increasingly difficult to raise enough money for schooling.

Runda Alaandare. Form 1, day boy

BOARDING STUDENTS:

.Lazaro Kone – Age 17. His father, a Maasai pastoralist, has seven wives and 67 children, not counting those who are still babies! His own mother has eight children. His family used to have a lot of cattle, but during the drought, they lost all but three of them. They survive by relying on assistance from relatives and neighbours. When he finishes school he would like to be a lawyer.

Theresia Paulo – Age 19. Her father passed away in 2002 and her mother has brought her up, together with her four siblings, as a single parent. Her mother runs a small business selling vegetables, maize and beans in the village of Ngaramtoni, near Arusha. She had to leave her previous school in Arusha because the fees were too high, but heard that some of the girls from her village had been sponsored to study at Noonkodin. Her dream is to become a doctor..

Paulo Sumuni – Age 20. His mother, who was the youngest of his father’s four wives, passed away in 2002 and he has been brought up by his three stepmothers. They live in the village of Mti Mmoja, in the Monduli area. There are 26 children altogether, seven of them from his late mother. His father is a Maasai pastoralist but since the drought, he has only ten cattle left to support the whole family. Neighbours and other relatives got together to raise the money to send Paulo to school, but now everyone is facing the same struggles because of the drought and he is unable to get enough money to stay in school.

Alais Mepukori – Age 21. His father, who is a Maasai pastoralist living in Arkaria village, has six wives and Alais doesn’t even know how many children there are altogether! His own mother has twelve children. He made the decision himself to join the secondary school, and every vacation he goes round to visit his relatives and neighbours asking for small contributions, in the hope of being able to earn enough money for school fees.

Frank Moikan – Age 22. His father, a farmer in the Maasai village of Lodung’oro, has two wives and twelve children. He was attending Nanja Secondary School but his family could not afford to pay the school fees, so he left to help his parents on the farm. Last year they were not able to get any harvest because of the drought. When he heard that there might be a possibility of getting sponsorship to study at Noonkodin, he raised the money for the first term’s fees through contributions from neighbours and friends.

Money goes a very long way in Tanzania. For example:

Sponsoring students:

£12 per month provides all the teaching costs and one hot meal a day for a day student.

£20 per month provides all teaching costs, plus term time accommodation, all food, water, paraffin for reading lamps and for health insurance for a boarding student.

£25 - 30 per month will sponsor an FGM refugee student. It will provide all the above with the addition of full time accommodation and food plus clothing and all other personal needs of the girl during her time at the school.

If you are a UK tax payer, your donation can be further increased if you put your name to a Gift Aid form which enables Serian UK to reclaim the tax on your gift from the Inland Revenue.

For Details of Sponsorship please: click here

One off Donations:

Donations can be used for building projects, food,books and many other day to day needs of the school. Your donation can be used for a specific purpose, as chosen by you - or for a current urgent need.