2014
Expansion of Momella Secondary School
Due to its good reputation, more and more students from the wider area have been striving to attend Kisimiri Secondary School in recent years, which has led to massive overcrowding and many associated problems. At the last general meeting we proposed a possible way to help defuse this situation: namely by supporting the structural expansion of the secondary school in neighbouring Momella. Appropriate measures were initiated immediately at the beginning of the year and have already shown results.
2012
Momella Secondary School
The association currently also supports Momella Secondary School. This school is only a few kilometres away from Kisimiri. The idea behind it: in Kisimiri we are increasingly becoming victims of our own success, the number of students has risen so much in recent years that the quality of teaching is threatened due to class sizes being too large. In addition, there are shortfalls in dormitories and in catering. Through our support of Momella this school becomes more attractive and takes the strain off the Kisimiri School.
2010
Opening and handover ceremony
On 20th July this year the official opening and handover ceremony took place in Kisimiri. Although the school complex has been in operation for many years thanks to the gradual construction of the building, this formal act is of great importance for all those involved.
Present were the Regional Commissioner of the Arusha region and Adrian Schläpfer (namesake of the Vice President of« Friends fo Kisimiri»), at that time Swiss ambassador to Tanzania. Emil Karafiat had arrived with a group of 16 members of the association (including a three-member representative of the board) and was able to carry out the symbolic handover of the schools to the Tanzanian authorities.
2010
Impressions from Tanzania
On the occasion of the opening and handover ceremony in Kisimiri we had the chance to admire the beauty of Tanzania.
Up to 1998
When the association was founded in 1996, there was only one primary school in Kisimiri with two rudimentary huts as classrooms. Stones were used both as seats and benches. A piece of cardboard served as a classroom. This school was the first to be extended by FoK. Four brick classrooms with corrugated iron roofs were built. A water pipe was laid over 1.5 km to the school. Further buildings followed. Today, at least one class is taught in English.
The picture on the left shows one of the two huts that served as classrooms for the elementary school. The second picture from the left shows Emil Karafiat with Abnery Mrema, our local guardian for over 25 years.
In the picture on the far right, taken in Arusha in 1998, Rebecca Magwisha, District Education Officer of Arumeru, is with Emil Karafiat and Adrian Schläpfer.
