Safari English Club

the site: unguja ukuu primary school

installation: 2015-2019

team and partners: rotary club of Zanzibar in stone town, brighton and hove soiree rotary club, Ann dieckmann, caroline Richardson, Shafii Mwita Haji

project manager: ann dieckmann

For 4 years we ran after school English club to improve the literacy and language skills of 95 students in the village of Unguja Ukuu.  Most of the students were 10 - 13 years old, preparing for the primary school leaving examinations.  Success in these examinations determines what secondary school they attend.  Previous to our intervention, no students from the village had ever passed these examination.  As a result of our intervention 7 students won scholarships to top schools in Zanzibar and on the mainland. The project has also supported a number of secondary school students and amongst our successes are a high rate of passes in public exams enabling students to keep in education. We are now sponsoring students from the village at university.