Every child CODEWA serves is a reflection of our founder's own story and the inspiration that drives everything we do.
Somewhere in Tanzania right now, a child is sitting in class hungry, wondering if they matter.
Our founder was that child. Hungry. Without books. No direction. No one telling him he could make it just the silence where a future should have been.
He refused to let poverty write his story. That refusal became his inspiration. And together, we have spent every year since making sure no child faces that silence alone and that every child who needs it finds someone willing to inspire them forward.
Sadath with children · Tabora, Tanzania
Foundation of Impact
Poverty doesn't push a child out of school with one problem, it comes from every direction. That's why we address education, health, digital skills, mentorship, and climate action together. Because no child should be supported partially when they need support fully.
To provide vulnerable children and youth with the integrated knowledge, skills, and support they need across education, health, mentorship, digital skills, and climate action so that poverty never determines a child's destination.
A Tanzania where every child and young person, regardless of where they were born or what they were born into, is inspired, equipped, and free to build a dignified future.
"When you change a child's perspective, you change their destiny."
For many vulnerable children and youth in Tanzania, the greatest barrier is not outside them, it is inside them. Years of poverty teach children to shrink, not dream. Our programmes don't just open doors. They teach children to believe they are allowed to walk through them.
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What We Do
Every barrier a child faces is connected to another. That is why we address education, health, mentorship, digital skills, and climate action together not as separate projects, but as one integrated response to a complex problem.
Tuition is free. But poverty is not. A missing uniform, a 15km walk before sunrise, or a single exam fee can end a child's education permanently. We remove those barriers one by one through school kits, bicycles, scholarships, and mentorship so a child's potential, not their poverty, determines their future.
A certificate is not enough. Capability is. Through the Capability Fund and the Girls Digital and AI Skills Hub, we equip school leavers and out-of-school girls with the mindset, digital skills, and career readiness to translate their education into a livelihood and a life of leadership.
Material aid was not enough. So we went deeper. Resilience Circles and large-scale Inspiration Seminars address the invisible barriers trauma, low self-esteem, limiting beliefs that no school kit can fix. 75% of participants report stronger self-belief after one year.
A fever should never end a child's education. The Toto Afya health insurance card protects one child for 365 days from EUR 25. MHM dignity kits give girls back the 60 school days they lose every year to stigma and poverty. Illness treated in a day, not a dropout in a term.
Someone planted the tree I eat from. Now it is my turn. Student-led Climate Guardian Clubs are planting 1,500+ fruit trees, building school gardens, and restoring Tabora's land with a 90% sapling survival rate because the students who plant them protect them.
Our Footprint
These are not projections. They are what has already happened, verified across CODEWA's partner schools, communities, and programmes in Tabora since 2015.
A movement of aspiration and psychological resilience built across schools and universities in Tanzania. One room. One role model. One belief shifted forever.
School kits, bicycles, scholarships, and health cards delivered to vulnerable students whose families could not cover the cost themselves.
Fruit trees planted in partner schools across Tabora, tended by student-led Climate Guardian Clubs with a 90% sapling survival rate.
From digital skills to health literacy to career readiness, each session equips a young person with something they will carry for the rest of their life.
Schools across Tabora where CODEWA programmes run, teachers are trained, and children are protected from the barriers that once forced them out.
Four CODEWA beneficiaries now in their second year of Bachelor's degree programmes. The first in their families to reach university. They are what this work looks like ten years later.
Local and international mentors, trainers, and professionals who have given their time and expertise to a generation of children in Tabora who needed to see what was possible.
Give Today
Not sure where to start? Every fund below reaches a real child in Tanzania. Pick the cause that moves you most, or give to our general fund and trust us to direct it where the need is greatest.
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Education & Access A uniform. A pair of shoes. A future.School kits, bicycles, and scholarships removing the hidden costs that keep brilliant children at home. From EUR 25.
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Health, Dignity & Wellbeing A fever should never end an education.Health insurance cards, menstrual hygiene kits, and community health literacy, so illness never forces a child out of school. From EUR 25.
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Mentorship & Inspiration A scholarship can pay fees. It cannot silence doubt.Resilience Circles and Inspiration Seminars rebuilding self-belief in 160,000+ young people across Tanzania. From EUR 10/mo.
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Climate Action & Stewardship Someone planted the tree I eat from. Now it is my turn.Student-led fruit tree planting, school gardens, and Climate Guardian Clubs restoring Tabora's land. From EUR 5.
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Youth & Digital Skills The certificate sat in a drawer for three years.AI tools, coding, Canva, and career readiness for out-of-school girls and young mothers at the Digital Hub. From EUR 15.
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Shields for Girls She does not need a miracle. She needs wheels.1000 bicycles for girls in rural Tabora turning a dangerous 2-hour walk into a safe 30-minute ride. EUR 155 per bicycle.
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Not Sure? Give to the General Fund Every Child. Every Programme. One Gift.A general donation supports all six programmes equally. Trust us to direct your gift where the need is greatest, and every euro will reach a child in Tanzania whose life is changed by the fact that you acted. |
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Voices of Change
These are not success stories written by CODEWA. They are truths spoken by the children, students, and volunteers who lived them.
"Volunteering with CODEWA redefined my path. It wasn't just about giving back; it was about building leadership skills alongside a team obsessed with change."
"My grandmother never learned to read, but today I am a University business student. CODEWA helped me officially rewrite my destiny."
"The materials from CODEWA removed the stress that was suffocating my family. I am now top of my class and excited for my future."
"In my community, marriage was the expected path. But after CODEWA, I see a new version of myself: I want to be a doctor."
Trusted By
CODEWA's work is strengthened by organisations that share our conviction that every child in Tanzania deserves a fair chance. We are grateful for their trust.
In the Field
From solar-powered digital hubs to school gardens that will produce fruit for thirty years, every CODEWA project is designed to outlast the funding that started it.
We empower youth to become the architects of a greener Tanzania. Having established successful school gardens, we are now seeking strategic partnerships to scale this ecological restoration model to 50 additional schools.
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Following a successful pilot that revitalized local learning spaces, we are now open for investment to expand our literacy model. This initiative combines classroom renovation with modern teacher training to ensure foundational literacy.
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Our Digital Hub is actively providing second-chance pathways for marginalized girls in Tabora. By equipping them with market-ready tech skills, we are dismantling stigma and turning excluded young women into confident digital leaders.
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Our Team
The people who show up every day for children and youth in Tabora leading programmes, governing with integrity, and refusing to let poverty write a child's story.
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