Great Lakes Region (Africa) Education Committee
The committee supports facilities, students, and alumni of the Kisangura Schools in Tanzania. It also built classrooms in the Davanga School, Kenya
July 2026 update: The Great Lakes Region (Africa) Education Committee is pleased to share that students at the Kisangura Primary & Secondary Schools in Mugumu, Tanzania, returned to classes on Monday, July 6th after a month-long mid-year vacation. Below are photos of Guardian Teacher Asteria Peter with some of our primary school sponsored students and our secondary school sponsored students in their athletic outfits.
OUR COMMITTEE, FOUNDED BY JIM MORGAN IN 2001, is proud to be entering our twenty-fifth year of service (2026). Over the years we have raised money for faculty housing and cisterns at the Quaker founded Kisangura Schools in Tanzania, plus money to build classrooms at the Davanga School in Kenya. We have sponsored over 100 students at the Kisangura Primary and Secondary Schools, paying all of their annual school fees, textbooks, and uniforms. We pay the dorm fees for all of the secondary school female students we sponsor, so they may live on campus. We encourage and support students who pass their secondary school national exams to enroll in further education programs. We are currently sponsoring thirty-eight students in further education, ranging from pre-college programs, to college, to vocational training programs, to medical school. Read the Great Lakes Region (Africa) Education Committee Handbook page, which is also copied below.
Please read our most recent newsletter: NEWS FROM AFRICA: Winter 2025-2026
And our annual report to New York Quarterly Meeting, July 2025.
Previous editions of the newsletter:
Some photos from the Distribution Day at Kisangura School, Jan. 13, 2025
Great Lakes Region (Africa) Education Committee
Committee Description from New York Quarterly Meeting's Handbook (2020)
The Great Lakes Region (Africa) Education Committee is a separate 501(c3) non-profit corporation, to the Board of Directors of which the Quarterly Meeting appoints 6 members.
Composition: Quarterly Meeting Nominating Committee nominates 6 members.
Term: 3 year, no limits on tenure.
Meeting Frequency: 10 meetings yearly.
Purpose: Our primary mission is to support orphaned children of the Kisangura region in Tanzania, Africa. In most cases the parents have died of AIDS. We are committed to continue to find effective, accountable ways to serve them through the committee, which is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Responsibilities: Support the students in the primary and secondary schools in Kisangura. This support may address the following needs and others that the committee may identify:
- Fundraising in New York, and in the Quaker community in the United States
- Funding construction projects including new schools, educational facilities for existing schools, teachers' residences, and projects to meet the minimum needs of the children and faculty
- Providing ongoing support for students who have completed the educational program at Kisangura and wish to enter a program of higher education at boarding school.
- Providing support for teacher training.
- Establish and maintaining accountability and verifying all expenditures.
- Identify problems that may arise for children during the school year and instituting remedial measures.
Interested in joining this committee or learning more? Please contact the Nominating Committee.
