ICYE-STEPS / SURE STARTS CHILDRENS CENTRE 2020

Sure Starts Children’s Centre (TZA-37). Type: Education, Children - Brief description and main aims : Sure Starts Children’s Centre is a private facility that offers day-care & pre-school education. The school has a population of around 20 kids who come from families in the surrounding neighbourhoods and beyond. Their curriculum is based on the UK’s Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and is designed to foster the emotional, physical, social, intellectual and creative development of each child. All classes are taught in English. The school also offers extra curriculum activities for parents, such as trainings and workshops on child protection, first aid, teenagers education, bulling issues and other subjects. In order to help children from poorer backgrounds, the project also runs a charity called Maisha Leo, which provides after school classes such as communication, debate, art, music and language classes for primary government schools. Liz Mleli, who is Managing Director of the project, founded the school in 2012. -- Cultural Exposure : Sure Starts Children’s Centre is a peaceful and cooperative environment, where the staff is highly experienced. Differently from most schools in Tanzania, beating the children is not allowed in this project. The main challenge you can expect to face is the workload, as you will always be busy with different daily tasks. In the project, you will be able to learn to teach and to deal with the different personalitie