Precious Project has been a 'miracle come true' these past ten years thanks to the generosity of our Precious donors. We have watched the original nine children who live in the residential home blossom into young adults with great promise. Our primary school offers a first-rate education and hope for 343 children, many who might not otherwise see the inside of any school particularly as advance as ours.
In response to the Covid-19 crisis, the Tanzanian president has closed all schools indefinitely and our students are now at home with their families. Our concern is that these children, who have placed the Precious Primary School as #1 in our district, will lose the academic gains they have earned through their hard work. A further worry is our students' health as a significant number depend on the school for their daily meals.
The UN World Food Programme has declared that the African continent is on the verge of a starvation pandemic due to the novel coronavirus. We have shifted our focus to provide emergency food to our students and their families and educational materials to our students at home. You can learn more about our pandemic response in the video below.
Precious Pandemic Response
We continue to pay salaries to all our staff in Tanzania throughout this crisis as they don't have any government support or fallback. Our Precious School faculty continue to work, creating and distributing 'education kits' with assignments for their students so they can resume their studies the best they can at home. Further the residential primary and secondary children at the Precious Children Home are benefiting from our digital learning program and participating in distance learning classes over Zoom.
Your generous donations are continuing to help our Precious community in so many ways. Thank you.
The Precious Project helps those in extreme poverty have a better future through education. With this mission, Precious has undertaken five model projects in a rural Tanzanian village.