About Us

Left: since 2008  Right: since 2014 

Due to the effects of globalisation Tanzania has experienced economic prosperity and various technological developments in recent times, however instead of bringing the social progress one would expect it has only widened the poverty gap further. In addition to this, regional diseases and epidemics have long devastated the country which makes this country left on the margin around the globe. The Tanzanian economy consists mainly of basic agriculture and the majority of the population do not receive a primary education, therefore the country has a severe shortage of skilled labour in most professional fields.

NTHU Tanzania Educational Volunteer Team 2013

Through generous funding from the United Nations, the Tanzanian Government is able to fund ventures positively relating to education, promoting its importance amongst the youth and encouraging students to attend school. However, as a result of the lack of teaching professionals in the country, high school students often serve as the teachers for primary school students and government authorities are powerless to act against the development of such problems.

In contrast, there are abundant educational resources in Taiwan, a country known worldwide for its expertise in the IT industry. The Centre for Learning Service of NTHU (National Tsinghua University) hence established the "NTHU Tanzania Educational Volunteer Team" in early 2008 and invited Fr. Jean-Pascal Lombart to be team leader and consultant; he has been stationed in Tanzania for many years. Our goals are to transfer the resources we often take for granted to those who have nothing, by this we hope to improve the standard of education and help eliminate some of the economic and social problems aforementioned.

Thus, the students of National Tsing Hua University, which is famous for its IT department, have decided to volunteer themselves to the programme and help improve both computer hardware and software in Tanzania. Through our efforts year by year, we hope to build up communities with enough computers and increase the utility rate of these computers via our influence in said communities so that the distance between Tanzania and the world will be shortened.

So far we have established computer classes in two primary schools and four high schools across Tanzania, and also offered local teachers computer courses to cultivate their ability to learn the computer skills by themselves. Among these schools, some of the primary schools we served in 2009 have then been able to open computer classes of their own, and these have been running ever since, for more than three years.

We help build up computer classes and offer courses in Tanzania.

Our team has received an award for NGO international participated exhibition of achievements 2011, the MaD Award 2011, a champion of the ASUS foundation and ADOC International Volunteer Programme Award 2013 and was nominated for the Youth Volunteer service for Regional Peace National Competition 2008-2012. NTHU Tanzania Educational Volunteer Team is viewed in a positive light around the globe.

As of 2014 our team is now 7 years of age. This year, our team has recruited 14 students with different professions and we are going to bring 100 computers sponsored by ©ASUSTeK Computer Inc. to high schools in Tanzania to build more computer classes and offer computer and science information. We hope through our efforts, starting from education, those children in Africa will no longer suffer from shortage of information because of limitations imposed by their environment. We want to make them visible in the world, with no more people left behind on this planet. We expect that the community we built will make Tanzanians closer to the world; they will be able to take advantage of the Internet services at their disposal to share what they see to each other whilst surfing, making positive progress to the society and country as a whole.