Form 6 graduate, Community Service Year intern and future engineer, Winrose will be joining Gemma on her tour of Australia in March and April next year.
Two years was all it took. Before he was accepted into St Jude’ as a Form 5 student in 2013, most of Emmanuel’s education had been at a government school. Once he graduated last year, that experience became a driving force in his decision to spend the second half of his Community Service Year helping […]
Asha is afraid of nothing, how many 10 year olds can say that? Her favourite subject is science because her teacher, Mr Samwel Jackson, “is so smart funny and nice,” she says. Asha likes learning about animals, especially lions, and how lions like to kill and eat zebras. Asha’s favourite person in the world is […]
Overcoming vision impairment in a developing country is no easy task, especially when you’re trying to focus on your education, but two of our students have done just that.
There’s one thing Ezekiel wants to do when he finishes university and gets the job of his dreams. “I’m going to buy my parents a house,” the smiley 15-year-old says. And, boy, do they deserve it. Ezekiel’s parents, Jenifer and Michael, are unskilled workers in one of the world's poorest countries, spending everything they have […]
2015 was one of our most successful years fighting poverty through education! Not only did our first ever Form 6 graduating class finish in the top 10% in Tanzania, these amazing graduates went on to help thousands of students at under-resourced government schools by volunteering as teachers. Our amazing supporters helped us with one of […]
As a journalist, it is not often you get to see a tangible example of the effect your work can have. Sometimes you hope that a particular story will achieve something — expose an injustice or bring about much-needed change, but most of the time, the world goes on as it was. So getting an […]
It's dress rehearsal for the inaugural graduation ceremony at the School of St Jude in Arusha, Tanzania, and the formidable Gemma Sisia is trying to convince me she has pulled back from supervising every detail at the school she founded 13 years ago. But with five days to go before the big event, it doesn't […]
For almost five years Andrew 'Sarge' Hives has coordinated Emergency Response Plans for all campuses and teaches evacuation education to students during annual visits to the school.
