Travel Stories

Barakael Kenedy is a Form IV (10th grade), Mungere Secondary School student who is 19 years old and from a rural village. He's the oldest in his family and aspires to be a doctor when he finishes high school. This project took place just a few weeks before his national examinations and delves into the life of a rural Tanzanian teenager and what it's like to be a Form IV student with The Red Sweater Project.

Over the past 6 months, I have been working and volunteering at an American NGO known as the Red Sweater Project. The aim of the Red Sweater Project is to offer affordable education to rural Tanzanian youth who can't afford public schools. In Tanzania, although school at this point in time is essentially "free", things such as books, uniforms, boarding (most secondary schools are boarding schools), stationary, and other necessities are not and thus can make education unappealing, unaffordable, or impossible for many students.