Jifunze

jifunze, which was founded in 1999, initially set out to improve the educational resources available to young girls in the rural kiteto district of tanzania. to that end, by working with the local community and government officials, we created tanzania's first community education resource centre (cerc) in the kiteto district's largest town, kibaya. over the last ten years of development, the kiteto cerc has become a model for sustainable educational development in rural tanzania, and now stands as an example of what communities can achieve when provided with the right resources. upon our success in kiteto, which included phasing out of the day to day management of the kiteto cerc in july 2008, jifunze has now dedicated itself to restructuring the organization to be able to provide support and advice to others who are interested in starting similar community development projects throughout the world. this website is therefore the first step in that process and offers itself as an inform