Collyer’s ‘incredible’ Tanzania project

Collyer’s Mike Branfield (Head of House), Sally Miller (Deputy Head of Faculty for Social Sciences) and Joe Brock (Head of Faculty for Mathematics and Science) have been reporting back to staff and students about another successful summer trip supporting a number of valuable projects in Tanzania.
By The Newsroom
Published 8th Oct 2013, 15:26 BST
Collyer's Tanzania ProjectCollyer's Tanzania Project
Collyer's Tanzania Project

Joe and Mike concentrated on a teacher training project, where they work as coordinators for the Institute of Physics. During their time in Tanzania they trained an incredible 107 teacher trainees at the Teachers’ College Morogoro, donating kit and a training manual to each teacher, so that the idea of practical physics could be taken all over Tanzania.

In addition to this, 10 electricity kits constructed and designed by Collyer’s students, were taken out to Tanzania and donated to a remote school, in a project generously supported by the Jephcott Trust. The power is provided by wind up torches, so that there is no need for batteries or electricity supply, thus cleverly enabling the teaching of electricity.

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Mike, with the help of money raised by students at Collyer’s, then supported a health centre refurbishment, taught apprentices at the carpentry group he had previously helped to set up and demonstrated an idea for cooking with solar power. He also visited Elisabeth Edward (who is sponsored by Collyer’s students to train to be a pre-school teacher) and saw her happily at work in her classroom.

Sally Miller’s wide ranging initiatives were within the community and included further health projects at Mgeta and supplying football kit (donated by Collyer’s students again!) to disadvantaged children in Morogoro. However, this year’s main project was the opening of the new Food and Nutrition centre at Mvomero School, funded by money raised by staff and students at Collyer’s. Sally also donated the gift of a solar powered laptop, donated by Lloyd Everard at Horsham’s SAS Business Group, which now enables staff at the school to access the educational blog designed to support the teachers.

Joe Brock was thrilled with this year’s successes: “It has once again been tiring, but extremely worthwhile and fulfilling work. We would love to go out again to Tanzania to continue the series of projects we have started”.

Collyer’s Principal Dr Jackie Johnston said: “The college community and Horsham should be extremely proud. The fantastic work of the Collyer’s Tanzania Project team is nothing short of incredible!”