Building Safety At Ololosokwan Primary School

This fundraiser is organized by Type of Wood Charities Inc.

Tax deductible

Type of Wood Charities has partnered with Brooks Laich, World Playground and TAASA Lodge to raise funds to build a primary school dormitory in Ololosokwan Village located in Northern Tanzania.

The village is home to members of the Maasai tribe, a Nilotic ethnic group that mostly resides in regions of Northern Tanzania and Southern Kenya. The remote location of the village means there is limited infrastructure, economic opportunity, and educational resources for its adults and 800+ children and the existing school dorm is extremely overcrowded, worn down and under equipped for the number of students.

The belief that empowerment starts with education is shared by all parties involved in this fundraiser. After meeting the Ololosokwan villagers, visiting the school and seeing first hand the children who are eager to learn but lacking basic dormitory space to do so safely, we began working to create this fundraiser knowing the pooling of our resources and those of our communities can make an enormous impact for those children.

The immediate need we would like to address is the boys dormitory. It is extremely overcrowded, worn down and under equipped for the number of students it serves. The boys currently sleep 4 to a single twin bed and not all of the beds have a mattress. There are only two toilets and two showers and the chambers behind the toilets fill up very quickly leading to unsanitary conditions to live in.

We set our goal to $50,000 which would allow us to build a new dormitory (@ $40,000) to provide the students a safe, clean and comfortable space to live and sleep in while attending school. In addition to the dormitory, we would be able to purchase beds, mattresses, bedding and pillows, trunks for students to keep their personal belongings safe and a perimeter fence to keep animals away.

If we are able to surpass our goal, additional funds would be allocated towards building additional classrooms (@ $13,000/per). There are over 800 students in the school and currently only 8 classrooms. In addition to building the classroom structure, we would allocate funds to be used on desks and school supplies. Currently the classrooms do not have enough desks for each of the students so 2 - 3 students share 1 desk at a time.

As Type of Wood Charities is a verified charity with PayPal and a part of the Giving Fund, 100% of your donations to GoFundMe will go directly to these projects in Ololosokwan Village. Please help us give hope through education and reach our fundraising goal! Share this page with your friends, family and co-workers to tap into the power of the collective and make a massive impact in a village that desperately needs it.