Tanzania Mwangaza Soul

Lutheran Partners worked with Mwangaza Soul in the Arusha Diocese of Tanzania. This project centered on an educational initiative that developed curriculum based on indigenous local folk tales and stories focused on peace. Through Mwangaza Soul, students were encouraged to tell their stories and teachers were trained to incorporate these stories into the curriculum.

Update: Autumn 2007
When Mwangaza Education for Partnership began in 1996, teachers in the United States partnered with colleagues in Tanzania. Leadership opportunities abounded for Americans as well as Tanzanians as they worked together to develop new insights in to the challenges of teaching secondary students. Since then, though Mwangaza’s foundation of partnership has remained the same, the spectrum of Mwangaza’s programs has expanded beyond the secondary school community through additional programs that explore the environment, family and community, and HIV/AIDS. No wonder that Mwangaza has been called the prime, on-the-front-lines educational resource, changing lives and views both in Tanzania and in the United States.