After long preparations, in the end of 2023 finally I travelled to Bagamoyo Tanzania and built up a collaboration with RATA School, supported by RAFIKI RANI NGO from Denmark. This is a secondary school giving students a chance of high-quality education. The elaborated concept of Zero Day differs a bit, but integrates with their visions:
- Zero Day supports grown ups, which did not have the chance to finish a secondary school, in doing their examinations
- In 2024 already 2 students started the program.
- We are supporting with school fees and living costs for the period of 2 years
- We are thankful for RAFIKI NGO to work closely together with the students in order to ensure that upcoming challanges can be resolved.
- We are in close collaboration with teachers and tutors from RAFIKI NGO in order to ensure things are going as planned
- Zero Day plans to build up a new NGO in Bagamoyo with following goals
- Support local groups in forming businesses
- Support local families with scholarships for their children to have a chance to go to school
- Build up of a computer lab and provide basic computer classes to children in school (ones with scholarships from poor families will be preferred)
- Give scholarships for university studies in field of IT
Call for help
Currently Zero Day GmbH does not have a collaboration with an NGO in Germany. This means German Tax offices does not value our donations as donations. This means, every euro we are donating – and it is quite some euros in the meantime – is taxed before we donate it. This means per Euro donation we pay approximately 1 Euro of taxes. If we find an NGO here in Germany which is willing to support our projects in Tanzania we can increase our donations by 100% because we safe a huge amount of taxes we currently need to pay.
So in case you know an NGO in Germany, supporting projects for social sustainability and education in Tanzania and would be willing to support our efforts I would be very glad if you could reach out and connect. Currently we really are facing big financial preasure with this situation and a partner here in Germany could deduct this preassure a lot. We want to do something good in the world, but we cannot do it completely alone…
Contact: martin.pressl@zer0-day.de