Education is the main requirement to escape poverty, and the key to both a child’s personal development as well as the social and economical development of an entire country. Poverty is a major reason preventing many children from attending school. Children coming from a poor background often are obliged to help at home or in the family fields in order to secure the survival of the families. Parents barely are able to afford school uniforms and learning materials. Enabling children to attend school is the first step towards a brighter future. Educational quality remains to be a serious challenge. Due to the shortage of qualified teachers in many regions throughout Africa, classes with up to 200 children are not unusual, especially in more rural areas. Bad equipped class rooms and missing school supplies do have a negative impact on the quality of teaching. Pencils For Hope e.V. aims to enable children in Tanzania to attend school. Furthermore, we support the schools in order to create a proper and attractive learning environment for the pupils...  More