Powering Potential Attends the HMT Annual Fundraiser

Albin Mathias, Country Director, represented Powering Potential at the Hassan Maajar Trust  (HMT) Annual fundraising event in Dar es Salaam and posted the following blog. HMT was established by Ambassador Mwanaidi Maajar in memory of her son Hassan Shariff Maajar (Hashy) who died in a tragic road accident on November 11, 2006. 

The Hassan Maajar Trust Annual fundraising event on 31 Oct. 2014 was intended to raise TSH 500 million for 6,000 desks. 

Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda (right) looking at a display desk while attending
the Hassan Maajar Trust annual fundraising event at
Diamond Jubilee in Dar es Salaam.

Hon. Stephen Wasira (left),
Minister of State in the President's Office and MP Bunda constituent
with Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda.

Hon. Wasira has pledged TSH 17 milion for desks and contributed TSH 10 million for Powering Potential's Educating-Through-Technology program in the Bunda District.

 Artist Mwasiti Almasi performing at Diamond Jubilee

from left: Albin Mathias, Powering Potential's Country Director;
Simon Mayeye, DED Bunda District, and Bunda District Chair person

What a surprise! The Bunda District Executive Director was first person I met during fundraising event. Powering Potential is implementing the Educating-Through-Technology for Bunda District which has contributed TSH 10 million. This is a great achievement! Congratulations to Hon. Wasira and the Bunda District Council for your generosity to Bunda people.    

Segals, Elibariki, Shimbwe and Bunda

Lots of great things happening at Powering Potential!

We have one installation in the Serengeti now :)

Our founder, Janice Lathen, and Albin Mathias, our country director, attended the Segal Family Foundation Annual Meeting in Arusha, Tanzania from July 10-12, 2014. It was the first time the SFF Annual Meeting was held outside of the United States.

(l to r:) Barry Segal (SFF founder), Antoine Chiquet (SFF board member), 
Janice Lathen and Albin Mathias (Powering Potential).

The First Lady of Tanzania, Salma Kikwete was a guest speaker at the SFF Annual Meeting.

The First Lady speaking.

The First Lady outside the meeting.

The Segal Family Foundation Annual Meeting was a huge success! Complete with musical guests, sports activities and lots of good Tanzanian food!

Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi

Ambassador Maajar, the former TZ Ambassador to the US 
talks with Rich Segal, Segal Family Foundation and Powering Potential board member.

Ambassador Maajar talks with Andy Bryant, Exec. Dir. of the Segal Family Foundation
and our own Janice Lathen.

For more photos of the event, visit the SFF Facebook Page.

The Segal Family foundation also visited the Powering Potential installation at the Wel wel School in Karatu. They even tweeted about it: "@PwringPotential Special thanks to Janice for organizing a delicious lunch and amazing site visit. Our staff was very impressed!"

By the way, please follow Powering Potential and The Segal Family Foundation on Twitter if you haven't already! 

In addition, we would like to extend our congratulations to our own Elibariki Magnus!! He is attending the Arusha Campus of St. Joseph University in Tanzania studying for a Bachelor of Science in Education for Computer Science. He is a graduate of our five-month Technology Tent training course, which was conducted in 2011. He has been working for Powering Potential ever since. 

Elibariki Magnus

And now for a little taste of our future plans: We plan to implement our program at Shimbwe Secondary School in Moshi and also at three schools in the Bunda district on Lake Victoria. Wish us luck!