Bunda Girls Secondary School

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Tanzania: Bunda Girls Secondary School

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AFRICA:

Tanzania: Bunda Girls Secondary School

Together with the Tanzanian Diocese of Mara, Anglican Aid is helping girls receive a quality education at Bunda Girls’ Secondary School. The school is a happy and safe environment for students to live and learn – a place where they can focus on their studies to help them achieve a brighter future.

Often, education for girls is not a priority in Tanzania, and families rely on their daughters to look after the home. Child marriage is common, and there are few choices or opportunities available for girls’ secondary education. Even if they gain entry to a government school, the dropout rate is high, usually due to pregnancy or a lack of finances. In a culture where women are not highly respected, even travelling to school, or studying in a co-educational setting, can be unsafe.

Bunda Girls Secondary School is an Anglican boarding school for girls Years 7 to 10, providing a quality education in a safe Christian caring environment. Through this school, the local church aims to reduce levels of illiteracy among young girls in the Bunda district. The girls are hosted on site at the school to enable them to focus solely on their education. Anglican Aid has been assisting by providing funds for scholarships for students and in the provision of funds for the construction of capital works.

Through the generosity of a private foundation and the support of Anglican Aid, building began at Bunda Girls Secondary School (BGSS) in 2013. Since then, donations through Anglican Aid have raised enough funds to add classrooms, a library, dormitory, lodging for teachers, a kitchen, multi-purpose dining hall, and more.

In 2024, the capital work for the school will be completed, and after that, donations towards this project will support disadvantaged students to attend the school. $1,400 will provide one year of schooling for a girl.

Since opening in 2014, Bunda Girls Secondary School has changed the lives of many girls who have gone on to continue their education at vocational colleges, High Schools (Years 11 and 12) and University. Girls are given the foundation to be able to pursue careers from nursing, medicine, engineering, IT, to humanities and teaching.