“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see” Mark Twain
2 out of 3 school children in Tanzania do not have the needed supplies to support their learning. (Panos Education support informal survey of 5 Tanzania Schools in rural areas).
Thousands of students in Tanzania don’t have access to school supplies and textbooks.
Providing one textbook to every student in a classroom increases literacy scores by 5-20 percent (Michaelowa and Wechsler (2006)
Without the necessary school supplies, bright young minds lack the quality of education that they need to thrive academically. Too many young people with high potential turn to destructive rather than constructive paths for themselves and their community.
Our Solution
When struggling schools work hard with little available, we step in to help. By offering essential educational tools to schools, we improve access to quality education for the future leaders of African communities. You can help – donate school supplies today for children in Tanzania.
Panos Education Support Organization Started with the simple premise that creating a conduit to source school supplies and distribute them directly to Tanzania schools in the greatest need would substantially impact student learning.
We can receive supplies from donors from Tanzania, the US, Australia, the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Oceania, Asia, Central and South America etc. These supplies have will be distributed been directly to students all over Tanzania.
How you can Help?
- New School supplies: If you have unused supplies at home, school, or work, please send them to us directly.
- Used School Supplies: We welcome gently used supplies of all types. Recycling previously owned school supplies and office items is a great way to help others while being kind to our environment.
- Branded Items: We also accept these donations if you have used or unused branded items.
Monetary support/funds:
We need your help: Donating towards shipping supplies is the best way that you can help. We welcome your financial donation to cover the cost of shipping. This helps us place the supplies in the kids’ hands. We would be very grateful if you could donate at least $50 or more per box to cover the cost of shipping your supplies to Tanzania.
- Sponsor or start a collection drive: If you can volunteer to collect donations churches, schools, fraternities, and sororities. Let us know and we can suppoort the Initiatives.
We welcome your initiative if you would like to collect and send us school supplies.
What Do Our Schools Need?
As you might imagine, our beneficiary schools would greatly appreciate any assistance, but we have listed the most requested items below to help provide guidance. (List of School Supplies (PDF)
- Most Needed Item: Backpack and other book bags
- Most Needed Item: Notebooks & notepads
- Most Needed Items: Pens, Pencils, erasers, and sharpeners
- Solar lights for use by children when studying.
- Rulers (English or metric measurements)
- Chalk
- Colored pencils, crayons, and markers
- Calculators
- Filler paper / loose leaf paper
- Netbooks / Laptops / Kindles / iPads / eReaders
- Pocket dictionaries
- Miscellaneous arts and crafts items
- Science equipment
- Umbrellas & raincoats
- Children’s books
Donate Uniforms, clothes, and shoes- Is your school or business changing logos or uniforms? Do you have a collection of fabulous, gently used clothes or shoes? We will gladly take new or like new clothes.
Computer mice and mousepads: Got a computer mouse you don’t need? We gladly accept new mice and mouse pads.
