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 The Tanzanian Education Foundation is a 
non-profit organization formed in 2006 by
Nicole Miller and Erica Oblinger along with local
attorney Jay P. Cone of Charleston, SC.  In October of that year, Nicole and Erica traveled
to the village of Tengeru in Arusha, Tanzania to
volunteer as teachers in local, poverty-stricken
schools there. Over the month that they were there,
they formed a deep appreciation for the African
culture and absolutely fell in love with the children.
Over and over, they ran into cases of incredibly
poor children with great attitudes towards life and
an irresistible urge to learn. It seemed that the only
thing holding them back was a lack of money and
resources. 

Back in America, Nicole and Erica could not shake the desire to continue helping these children in some way. Out of that altruistic urge, grew what is now the Tanzanian Education Foundation. Our organization is based on the belief that an offer of help and hope will affect the future of these children.  We believe that through education, academic as
well as cultural, they will be able to rise above the obstacles set in front of them and lead themselves and their own children out of the never ending cycle of poverty and death that now afflicts this region of the world. 
We are working to implement programs to help with this cause, such as sponsoring local schools by providing educational tools like pencils, desks, uniforms and other basic needs of academic institutions.We will also be implementing scholarships for ten children a year in which we will fully fund anything and everything they will need for four years of advanced education, an opportunity almost unheard of in much of this region of the world. Another immediate goal will be to fund a nurse’s salary to provide health checkups and HIV testing for all of these children and hopefully be able to educate them in some of the issues in there culture which lead to the unfathomable disease and death there. We believe that, by starting small, we can plant the seeds of education and awareness which will hopefully flourish into a brighter future for such a wonderful and beautiful people who might not otherwise ever get that chance.
 

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