Introduction

The Kamitei Foundation (“Kamitei”) is a non-religious charity that aims to make an effective contribution to the education of children in Tanzania through small scale investments in facilities and teaching aids and through the granting of individual scholarships. Our focus on education is based on the following beliefs:

• In the long term, education has a significant positive impact on the standard of living of individuals and their communities

• Education has important indirect benefits in areas such as health, birth control and empowerment of communities

• The benefits of education tend to be structural and long lasting: it creates a virtuous circle

Kamitei’s activities are based on extensive on-the-ground research as to how our contribution can be achieved in the most effective and efficient manner, whilst keeping overhead costs to a minimum.

The Board regularly evaluates whether each individual activity meets these criteria and if we are achieving satisfactory results.

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Kamitei Foundation is named after the late Mrs Maria Motika, whose Maasai nick-name was 'Kamitei'. Mrs Maria Motika - born in Tanzania, Maasai by origin - had not received modern education herself, but worked hard and succeeded to provide good education to all of her eight children as well as a number of children of relatives. Nowadays, all these children live a relatively prosperous life and two of them managed to obtain a university degree. They both are currently part of the staff of Kamitei in Tanzania, contributing to the creation of similar education opportunities for other children in East Africa.