Goldenridge

Charitable Contributions accepted
Volunteers accepted (teaching English, Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Math)
Become Part of the Team (special skills like grant writing, or interested in teaching in another culture)

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You can also make a donation through the Bank

• Bank Name: CRDB BANK Plc.
• Branch Name: GEITA BRANCH
• Branch Code: 4458
• Swift Code: CORUTZTZ
• Account Number: # 01J1061714800
• Account Name: GOLDEN RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL

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You can send school equipment to:

• The Manager
• Golden Ridge High School
• P.O.Box 447
• Geita
• Tanzania

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See below materials needed for the school

Building Materials:

• Science laboratory $45,000
• Classroom $30,000
• Renovation of existing building $7,000
• Library (funded)
• Girls Dormitory (Funded)
• Dinning hall $28,500
• Transportation for Computer $10,000
• Solar Energy $10,000
• School Well (clean
• drinking water) $1500

Furnishings:

• Desk with chair $50
• Bunk Beds (2 students) $100
• Library Table $100
• Bookshelves $100
• Teacher’s Desk $100
• Filing Cabinet $100
• Dining Hall Table & Benches $200
• Computers $350

Student Supplies:

• Scholarship for a year $300
• Textbook $40
• Student Notebook $2
• Pencils/Pens $2
• Staff supplies (notebook, pencils, chalk, pens) $10

Girls be ambitious Scholarships Ongoing

The Golden Ridge School itself has been a success in terms of raising the level of education in the area. However, attendance of girls remains particularly low and as a result they stay illiterate. The main reason girls do not attend school is poverty and pressures upon them to help the family with work in the field, or to take care of younger siblings, fetching water and stay home while the parents are farming in the fields. Also sometimes they become the head of the household at an early age as they’ve lost their parents to AIDS. The Girls Be Ambitious program provides an incentive for girls and their families to enable them to attend school by providing financial assistance. Presently 5 girls are receiving financial assistance and many more need it.

Educating Girls
The education of girls in particular not only has a highly positive effect on the individual girl and their families, but it has widespread societal benefits as well. For example:

• Educated girls are empowered to have a greater voice in family and community affairs as well as in their country’s democratic process.
• Educated girls are more likely to marry and have children at a later age, thereby reducing her risk of developing infection and dying during childbirth.
• Educated mothers are more likely to have fewer and healthier children, reducing child mortality rates.
• Educated women’s children are more likely to be immunized against deadly but preventable childhood diseases, and are more likely to attend school themselves.
• Educated girls are more likely to actively participate in the work force and increase family incomes – for each additional year a girl is in school, her wages as an adult rise by approximately 15 per cent.

Donation Opportunities
The GRHS has set up various donation opportunities. You can choose how your donation is spent.

Girls’ Life

• For $325, you can support a girl’s education. The donation will be used to provide a girl with everything she needs for six month from room and board to contributing to her textbooks and uniform.
• For $650, you can support a girl for an entire year.
• $35 will supply a girl with a school uniforms, a requirement of most Tanzania schools.

Classroom

• A $200 donation can provide entire classroom of girls with the textbooks, tools, and learning supplies needed for an entire year.
• Help supply one girl with the full range of educational materials available for $50.
• $10 can provide a girl with all the basic school supplies needed.

Wellness and Creativity

• A donation of $30 can provide a medical check-up for one girl for entire year.
• A donation of $30 can be allotted for sports gear including balls, track and field equipment.