Alumni who were sponsored by TETEA.
Sairis finished Form 4 student at Mikalanga Secondary School. She continued her education at Taifa Foundation Secondary School. She hopes to work at a bank in the future and plans to use her salary to help out her family. Her parents are farmers who have a small coffee plot which they use to support their six children.
Sarah finished Form 4 at Msamala Secondary School. She then completed her studies to be a lab technician. By securing such a job she plans to support her family and to help put her relatives through school with the goal of lifting her family out of poverty. She is one of five children and her parents are subsistence farmers.
Sarah studied at Hagati Secondary School in a rural community. Her father passed away and her mother lives with a new man. Sarah and her younger brother live with their grandparents. Her mother is a peasant and has three other children with whom she lives. Sarah’s grandparents are both farmers and her grandmother has been in poor health as of late. Sarah did well at Hagati Secondary, where she was 6th in her school in 2011’s Form Two National Exams.
Sophia completed Form 4 at Msamala Secondary in Songea. Her father recently left her family, shortly after Sophia started attending secondary school. She lives in a partially finished house where the 6 people in her family share a single room, sleeping on the floor. She would like to be successful in her studies so that she will be able to help put her three younger siblings through school. Sophia was ranked in the top third of her grade at the end of the first term of Form 1.
Suzana studied at Hagati Secondary School in Songea, where she finished Form 4. She is an orphan who lives with her grandmother. Her grandmother is a subsistence farmer. Despite her hard living conditions, she has managed to get decent grades in school and hopes to continue on to graduate and later become a teacher.
