A Kitchen for Ufani Primary School

The Final project

Ufani Primary School is the origin story of Karimu. It was here that Marianne and Don were inspired to help the rural students in Tanzania in 2007 with a $500 donation to build 6 toilets. Since then Karimu has continued to pour love and energy into Ufani Primary with these many projects over the years. 

• 2008 - Purchase of student textbooks and teacher’s guides

• 2008-2009 - Construction of seven classrooms and two offices 

• 2009-2010 - Construction of two more classrooms

• 2010 - Construction of a duplex for Ufani teachers

• 2010 - Purchase of a building for kindergarten classroom

• 2010-2011 - Connect Ufani to clean water 

• 2011 - Construction of the second duplex for Ufani teachers

• 2013 - Construction of the third duplex for Ufani teachers

• 2015 - Build a drainage canal for Ufani to improve school crop production

• 2017 - Donation of solar panel to the school

• 2019-202 - Purchase of new school books

• 2021-2022 - Construction of student and staff bathrooms and hand washing sink 

• 2021-2022 - Purchase of textbooks and materials for school furniture and playground equipment

• 2022 - Computer education for teachers and a computer and printer for the school

• 2023-2024 - Remodel of Ufani Primary School

The last remaining project at the school is to build a school kitsch to serve the 474 students and teachers at the school. Part of the requirement for Karimu projects is that the community fund daily meals for all students. However, all these years, those meals have been cooked over open fires outdoors or in a tiny hut subjecting cooks and students to smoke and weather (see banner photo above).

Regardless of the challenges, the Ufani community has consistently fed the students. See below their track record since January 2021 (which can be viewed on the Karimu Schools Dashboard).

In addition, Karimu requires regular and prompt maintenance of completed construction by the head of school and Ufani has consistently driven down the average days to fix 25 in 2023 and 23 in 2024!

Karimu is now able to build a kitchen for the school. Here is the site layout with the kitchen in blue.

The new kitchen will include three rooms: one for grain storage, one for cooking with four high efficiency stoves, and a covered serving area for protection from the weather.

Construction on the school officially began in May with the community arrinving the clear, level, and dig the foundation.

Benefits:

• Safety for cooks and children

Cost: 

• Karimu cost: $26,662
• Community cost and/or contribution: $2,912