In addition to promoting school education, particularly in remote areas of northern Tanzania, empowering women within Maasai culture is a key focus of upendo `s work. We cannot, and must not, steer the associated cultural developments from faraway Europe; these must be initiated and carried out by committed local people. They are intimately familiar with…
Our new large-scale project: Tukuta Secondary School – Educational opportunities for girls in the Simanjiro District
2025 was another successful year for our efforts to improve school education in remote areas of Tanzania. Thanks to the financial support of our friends and several foundations upendo and its Tanzanian partner organisation ECLAT were able to build more than a dozen primary schools, mainly through extension and renovation work, but also through the…
On our last visit to Tanzania, we were accompanied by District administrator Stefan Rößle and a small delegation from the Donau-Ries district. Stefan Rößle is also chairman of the association ‘1000 Schools for Our World’, with the help of which we were able to build new classrooms, a toilet block and a residential building for…
Thanks to the financial support of our friends and sponsors, upendo has already been able to build and hand over numerous school buildings to the Tanzanian government this year. The handover ceremony for two classrooms, along with equipment and sanitary facilities for the Naankaileer primary school, marks the latest success in our long-standing cooperation with…
Training centre for teenage girls – Our latest project
Thanks to the financial support of our friends and sponsors 2024 was both an eventful as well as a successful year for us. Not only because we were able to celebrate the 10th anniversary of upendo and to welcome Queen Cuthbert, the Regional Commissioner (comparable to a Prime Minister in Germany) on a visit to…
On 5 October 2024, ECLAT and upendo for the first time celebrated the graduation of the teenage girls at ECLAT’s training centre in Emboreet. It was a truly emotional graduation ceremony for the first group from the pilot project, a moving celebration with 22 teenage girls who had developed into young women during their training…
On 17 May 2024, ECLAT and upendo laid the foundation stone for our most recent project: A vocational training centre for teenage girls who do not qualify for further education in Tanzania’s school system – as an alternative to forced marriage. Thanks to the financial support of various foundations, we have been able to build,…
The efforts of upendo are bearing fruit.
We have now been working with our Tanzanian partner organisation ECLAT in northern Tanzania for a decade.