Our Work

Bakhita Girls is a nonprofit devoted to empowering girls in developing countries through the provision of education. We seek to give underprivileged girls access to a good education while strengthening existing, locally-owned educational institutions and schools. Currently, our programs are in Ifakara, in the Kilombero district of Tanzania’s Morogoro Region. We do this through a scholarship program that consists of three main steps:

Identify:

Conduct carefully prepared socio-economic status surveys to determine the social and financial standing of households in marginalized communities and to assess need. Identify the girls most in need of our assistance. Learn More

Enroll:

Academically prepare and enroll identified girls in one of several private secondary schools. Bakhita Girls provides for the girls’ tuition, books, uniforms and other school needs. In addition, the organization pays the girls a modest monthly stipend to ensure the beginning of their financial independence. Learn More

Nourish:

Strengthen the curricula of the private secondary schools where our girls are enrolled. Assist the schools in lesson-plan development, teacher training, and innovative models of education. Create a Bakhita community where the girls, regardless of which school they attend, can share experiences and look to for academic and emotional support. Learn More

Sustainable Education

In order to ensure that the education of our students will not in the long run, depend upon charity, Bakhita Girls is aspiring to be largely self-sustainable through a Social Enterprise (part of our jargon, meaning for-profit ventures, the revenue from which will sustain the costs of our programs). We aim to create a Social Enterprise centered around a product that has a high demand in the local community, fills a market-gap, has a large enough profit margin, is nutritious and has the potential to increase the standard of living of the community here. The aim is to also sell the product at the local market, which also enables us to employ Ifakarans, help provide jobs to unemployed women here in the region and increase the potential for healthy living in Ifakara. The jobs that the Social Enterprise create will impact the whole community, uplifting it economically, while also providing the students with a better breeding ground for growth and empowerment.