Ten Reasons Why Arise Is An Amazing School!
3rd February 2017
Last week, our blog featured the incredible trek that two of our ACE volunteers recently undertook walking the entire length of Israel to raise money for Arise School. In the last three weeks, Bex and Gil have been volunteering at Arise and experiencing it firsthand. We were delighted to receive this week’s blog from them. […]
Ten Reasons Why Arise Is An Amazing School!
3rd February 2017
Last week, our blog featured the incredible trek that two of our ACE volunteers recently undertook walking the entire length of Israel to raise money for Arise School. In the last three weeks, Bex and Gil have been volunteering at Arise and experiencing it firsthand. We were delighted to receive this week’s blog from them. […]
Walking 1020 kms for ACE!
27th January 2017
In October last year, one of our blogs featured Bex and Gil, the intrepid couple who had undertaken “Scoot the Loop”, a unique challenge to raise money for ACE. At that stage, they were about to embark on another amazing challenge – to walk the length of Israel for the charity! Bex writes about the […]
“Match of the Day” at Arise!
20th January 2017
As part of their ongoing support to fundraise for the children at Arise School, the pupils of Cronton C. of E. School donated to Arise their own sports kits that they had grown out of or no longer had a use for. This coincided with the Tanzanian Government designating Friday afternoon as a dedicated time […]
“Match of the Day” at Arise!
20th January 2017
As part of their ongoing support to fundraise for the children at Arise School, the pupils of Cronton C. of E. School donated to Arise their own sports kits that they had grown out of or no longer had a use for. This coincided with the Tanzanian Government designating Friday afternoon as a dedicated time […]
Children Communicate Across Cultures
13th January 2017
The children of Queens Park, one of our local primary schools, have fundraised for ACE for some time. Over the last two years, we have been into their assemblies to tell them about Arise School and to keep them updated on developments there. At the end of September, we were invited back into Queens […]
Beat the January Blues!
6th January 2017
The post Christmas period can sometimes be a bit dismal. Arise School will reopen next week. Meanwhile, we thought that these two short videos, taken as part of the children’s welcome to us when we visited in November, might raise a smile. They certainly did for us when we replayed them! As we head into […]
Looking Back, Looking Forward!
30th December 2016
As 2016 draws to an end, we are delighted to look back at the progress at Arise School in the last 12 months. In fact, it has been amazing. It has certainly exceeded all our expectations. There are now 210 children registered (soon to become 236 in January) and demand is outstripping places. In Frank’s […]
Your Christmas Gift to Imamu and his family
23rd December 2016
Only two weeks ago, our blog featured little Imamu. Still only two years old, he has a medical condition that is likely to exclude him from having an education. Cindy, one of the medical students who visited Arise School this summer, deeply touched by Imamu’s plight and the poverty of his family circumstances, returned to […]
Arise School Contributing to the Community
16th December 2016
Whilst the children at Arise School are taught in English, those attending government (state) primary schools in Tanzania are taught in Swahili, the national language. However, when they move to secondary school at the end of Class 7 every lesson is taught in English, the official language. For many of these young people, having […]
