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Scholarships for Twegashe Graduates

CORE Tanzania has established a scholarship program to ensure that Twegashe students have a quality secondary school option when they graduate. Students who meet the requirements will receive a scholarship to attend a nearby private secondary school with a good reputation.
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Meeting Every Child’s Needs

Our goal at Twegashe is to provide quality education to every child. Our teachers are using differentiated instruction to better address the needs of all types of learners.
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A New National Curriculum for Tanzania

Tanzania's new national curriculum, rolled out in 2024, describes a more student-centered approach to education, in much closer alignment with what we have been doing at Twegashe School all along. Some other major changes have been introduced, the most significant being that after 2027, there will be no more grade seven in primary school.
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Supporting girls at Twegashe School

At Twegashe School we put a lot of emphasis on encouraging girls to stay in school. Making sure our female students will have access to sanitary hygiene products when they start their periods is an important component of that effort.

Agriculture at Twegashe

The agriculture program at Twegashe School is growing and improving as we discover new ways of enriching our soil and dealing with pests organically. We also have a growing livestock program. Our goal is to feed our students fresh, nutritious food from the school farm, and to provide practical, hands-on lessons in raising crops and livestock.

Lakeside School Partnership

Lakeside students spent three weeks in Bushasha Village, living with Twegashe families and leading day camp activities for our students. They accomplished their goals of gaining intercultural competence and increased global awareness, while Twegashe students got to practice English with native speakers and to have their horizons broadened beyond the confines of the village. And everyone made new friends and had lots of fun!
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Twegashe Read-Aloud

Watch a video of Twegashe students reading a book about the first day of kindergarten. A donated curriculum is helping these students learn to read.
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Welcome to CORE Tanzania

If you're a new visitor to CORE Tanzania, you may want to begin here to get an overview of our organization that includes an update on recent progress with our Twegashe Primary School project.
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Teaching Reading in Tanzania

Teaching students in Tanzania to read in English is challenging. English is quite different in structure and pronunciation from Kiswahili and local languages, teaching programs don't prepare teachers to teach in English, and students are learning to read with a very limited vocabulary. Twegashe students are succeeding despite these difficulties, but a new, donated reading curriculum will be a big help.
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August 2021 Update

There are many fun and exciting things happening at Twegashe School as we begin the second semester of our second year of operation. We have a new teacher, a new goat project, new cafeteria tables, new solar power at the teacher's houses, new training for our teachers...And this is not new, but there are also lots and lots of smiles!