Our Impact
Thanks to you, we have been able to help young people all across the world.
Sustainability
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Paying it Forward
Half of our students are now in college or vocational schools, and four of our students are college graduates! Our first scholarship student graduated from Duke University and is currently working at Thomson Reuters as a data scientist. He serves on our board, donates to our end of the year campaign and is helping his community.
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Increased Earnings
The students we help come from homes with an average income of $30 a month and now have the earning potential of making up to $1,000 a month, on average, because of your support. Your support is helping break the cycle of poverty.
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Community Development
Donations have provided 3,000 novels and required textbooks to schools so that no child will be left behind in their studies and provided 50,000 people with access to libraries, computer centers, and classrooms in the Kilimanjaro Region.
Our Numbers
Student Progress
To follow more of the journeys of our students from our Orphanage to College program, view our Student Impact Report.
Youth Task Force
Since 2020, our Make A Difference Now students developed a COVID-19 Youth Task Force in Tanzania to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and help keep themselves and their neighbors healthy. With your donations, we have provided clean running water to villages that don’t have access to water. These water taps provide our students, their families, and their communities with access to clean water. We have provided 40,000 people with access to clean water!
Meet Deo
Deo is a graduate from our Orphan to College program who received his Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is currently working on his PhD and recently presented his research on the cognitive effects of cancer chemotherapy at the The Atlantic Canada Cancer Research Conference held in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Meet Revo
Our first graduate from our Orphanage to College Program is Revo. After his father died and his mother became ill and could no longer care for him, he was taken to an orphanage in Tanzania. Revo worked hard at his studies and we covered his school fees, meals, lodging, medical, clothing, school supplies and transport until high school. He later received a full-ride scholarship to Duke University and now works as a data scientist.
Our Impact Video
Please take a moment to watch our Impact Video. It was created by one of our own BE alumni, not a fancy production company, but by a young man named Adam whose life was changed by the opportunities you helped create.
Most of our staff, like Adam, live in and serve the communities we work in. We have extremely limited admin fees, no big offices and we’ve proudly earned the GreatNonprofits Award every year along with Platinum status for transparency.