MANGO School project

Mango project is the hope of many children in Matekela,kambarage ward,Mbinga, Tanzania. This is the pre and primary English medium school. The school is under construction and will be equipped with reasonable learning materials for children and youth to use, sustainably transforming their minds. The school will helps reduce the students drop out and increase primary level students enrolments.

LESCOTA community library project

The story of the LESCOTA Matekela library began with the opening of the MACOBICA library in Maguu.

Matekela village rests on a narrow plateau in the Hagati Valley, about 10 kilometers south of Maguu, the location of the MACOBICA library. Since its opening in 2010, students have trekked long distances to the MACOBICA library to utilize its informational and study resources.

One former student who was particularly inspired by this project was Mr. Maurus Nchimbi who was born in the region. Recognizing the impact of the MACOBICA library and the potential to reach an additional demographic of Tanzanians, Maurus organized the Matekela village community to construct their own community library on the primary school grounds of Matekela Village. 

 While student educational materials are an essential component of the library, the LESCOTA Matekela model emphasizes providing Swahili materials that are accessible to not only students, but to all wakes of the community. Through a collaborated effort of Tanzanian donations and fundraising through US donors, the library has over 1,000 books written by the Tanzanian and Kenyan Swahili population. These books range from Swahili children’s literature, folklore, and vocational skills like farming techniques, carpentry, animal husbandry, and rural health issues, to name a few. It is with books like these that the LESCOTA Matekela library hopes to encourage a “reading culture” for the whole community while providing educational materials to students.

Watoto Bomba project

LESCOTA in partnerships with Tanzania Empowerments Through Education Association (TETEA) provide free two month  tuition to best standard seven graduates every year for the transition from Swahili medium primary schools to English medium secondary schools and this has been very successful; in 2017, 27 students enrolled for the program; the pre and post tests designed to test their performance and improvements; statistics shows that out of 27 graduated the program 25 students  improved and mean score improved for 12%.

Toilet construction project

Having toilets and water is a basic necessity in library/schools; however it is not available in many rural schools in Tanzania. Due to this, children are irregular to school and eventually drop out. This project will help to build in toilets and maintain them, provide running and clean drinking water for school children/community at Matekela primary school. The expected impact of the project is better health and improved school/library attendance and reduction in school drop out.

Are you interested with our work, volunteer positions, willing to help in one way or onother?

please contact us at: lescotanzania@gmail.com