Choba Primary School, Pangani, Tanzania Coast

This ongoing project will enable the children leaving the new nursery school to further their education. At present they have to trek over four miles to a primary school, usually on empty stomachs. So although Primary Education is a legal right for children in Tanzania, for some it is more accessible than others.

With this project we started with one simple classroom and had this ready by January 2009. Trustee Steven Gee was instrumental in raising the funds for this by undertaking an Olympic level triathlon in August 2008. These vital funds will enabled us to build a classroom for the first students leaving the new nursery school. However we needed to build a second classroom and school toilets. To achieve this Joy Skipper, the founder of the charity, led a double challenge. Firstly the participants trekked up Mt. Meru Africa's fourth highest mountain (4566ms.) and then they travelled down to Choba for a week of community work - helping to build the school and also spending time with the children of Choba helping them with their education and the development of their facilities. A second group of Community Challengers was scheduled to work on the Choba school October 2009.

Challenge Complete - Joy's Charity Challenge group and the October group have now successfully completed their mission to climb the gruelling Mount Meru and build at Choba. The site has been cleared, the foundations are laid and the walls are up! Click here to see some images from the challenge.

Funding Assured: OMG Capital have generously decided to fund the running costs of both the prmary school and the nursery school for the next three years! This is a critcally important income stream for the Choba schools. Thankyou so much to Steven Gee and OMG Capital.