Martina's 2018 school year has been fully funded! Click here to support a similar student.

Raised $175 from 0 donors Needs $0

About

I am the first born of five children. What I am proud of in my life is that I passed the Standard Seven examinations and was selected to join Form 1 at my secondary school. When I was in Standard 2, I was sick and ranked last in my class. After my parents took me to the hospital for treatment, I went back home to continue my school. I made a big effort and by Standard 4, I was #1. I have maintained this number ever since. The poverty of my family is my greatest difficulty. It is hard to feel good at school when I sometimes lack food and books and have only one pair of old clothes. I would like to be a doctor one day to help people with sickness. To make this come true, I will study hard.

Where your donation goes

Total $175
  • Tuition, Exams, Uniform
    $175

Martina's Funding history

Year Grade Receipt Status
2018 Form 3
2017 Form 2

Journal

Use the journal feature to write directly to a student

attach photo (no copyrighted images):
Must log in to post a new journal entry.
kate
Wed, October 24, 2018 at 11:30 pm GMT
Dear Students,
How are you? Your exams must be coming up shortly and we are hopeful that you are studying very hard in order to do well. It is so important that you do well so you will have the freedom to work in the career that you choose. I am an artist and i always wish I could go back to school to learn more and be able to excel. You are very lucky to get this education . . . Spend your time studying and you will be happy that you did!

This year has gone by quickly and you just have a month to study hard and make the best of this year.
We are all thinking of you and wish you the very best with your exams.
Fondly, Kate Adams
kate
Wed, August 22, 2018 at 10:49 pm GMT
Hello Students,
What an exciting time for you . . . Welcome back to school.
School gives you a chance to change your life, to excel in a subject you love and study hard to continue your education.
We wish you all the best with your classes and your teachers. Don’t hesitate to ask for help when you need it and reach out to your friends to help them too.
We are thinking of you and always enjoying hearing details about your classes and your experiences. . . .so please write in your journals!
All the very best, kate
Jonathan
Mon, May 7, 2018 at 10:36 pm GMT
Dear Students,

A few years ago I came across a list consisting of some habits that are good to get into. I have incorporated these good habits into my daily life and I’d like to share them with you. I hope it helps you as much as it has helped me.

1. Sleep early, around 9pm - 10pm. After working hard through the day, your body and mind need refreshing. Rest them as soon as possible.
2. Wake up early, around 5am - 6am. Start your day early. That time is the best time for inspiration to come in. After wake up, face the sky and the sun through your window. You will be motivated.
3. Be independent. Do your tasks by yourself. Solve your problem by yourself. Don’t always depend on other people. This doesn’t mean you should not get help from others.
4. Say thank you. Always say those 2 words if you get help from others.
5. Reading. Motivation and inspiration comes from what your eyes scanning for.
6. Writing. Put down in words on things that come to your head. Try to write 1 article per day. Having a diary is also a good approach.
7. Walking. Let sport always get into your day. The simplest one is walking. Keep moving and stay healthy.
8. Meditate. Focus on what you are doing. Finish it first and move to the other one. Don’t do multitasking. You can also meditate by sitting calmly and paying attention to your breath.
9. Help other people. Help people as they need and you are capable of doing it.

Have a great week,
Jonathan Gilbert
kate
Mon, May 7, 2018 at 6:50 am GMT
Dear students, The semester has gone by quickly. We hope you continue to thrive and enjoy your studies. Life will be much easier later if you study hard now. Your teachers are there to help you and so are we. Each one of you must have a favorite subject, something you love and can do well at . . . That will make you happy! Challenge yourselves in other subjects that might not interest you as much and do the very best you can. You will be surprised . . . You might decide you like those subjects too😄.
We are so proud of you and want only the best for you! Study Hard! We are excited for your futures!!
Thank you for all your accomplishments so far, Kate Adams
Martina
Tue, November 21, 2017 at 1:45 pm GMT
Hello my Dear Jenny , How are you? i'm so sorry for the healthy problem but you have to remember that GOD he is present for you.but i expect you to return to your normal condition and don't worry i shall pray for you and other people in the world who feel sickness,please GOD give Jenny tolerance during this difficult period.Also i would like to inform you that on yesterday we were complete our form two National Examination we started with English and ending with Agriculture.I hope that i shall pass well since my GOD is present.also on 18 December it's my birthday so that make sure that you don't forget to wish me,also i need to know when is your birthday?The weather condition of our country is moderate rain and wind.Although we have opened the school temporary i shall make sure that i shall be in remedial classes.I WISH YOU THE BEST CHRISTMAS.
%%%%%%%BELIEVE IN GOD ALL ARE POSSIBLE&&&&&&&.
Martina
Sat, November 4, 2017 at 12:07 pm GMT
Dear Kate, Everything is fine i hope.
I would like to tell you that I normally likes science subject such as biology, chemistry and physics. But specifically I like biology; why am I most like biology and not other subject? Because;
It help us to know how to conserve our environment by clearing bushes, burring waste and cleaning all things which surrounding us in order to be protected against disease.
It help to know how disease is transmitted, effects and prevention. For example CHOLERA, is caused by eating contaminated food and water also uncleaned environment so in order to avoid this disease you have to put your environment clean and avoid eating contaminated food and water. ;
It help us to know how to conserve our environment by clearing bushes, burring waste and cleaning all things which surrounding us in order to be protected against disease .
It help us to know living things and non living things and their characteristics.
Also in biology I mostly like the topic known as PERSONAL HYGIENE AND GOOD MANNER. Personal hygiene is the practice of keeping your body belongings and the environment clean in order to maintain good health. Good manner is a behaviour that is normally acceptable in the society. The following are the principle of personal hygiene and good manner.
Wash your body every day.
Always wear a clean clothes.
Keep the environment clean.
Keep your nails short.
Avoid foul language.
Sit in a good pasture.
Do not interrupt when other person is talking. the following are the importance of good manner and personal hygiene.
It make a person to be respectable in the society.
It help to maintain good health.
it is important for personal appearance.
it make you to be a roll model in the society.
Martina
Sat, November 4, 2017 at 12:03 pm GMT
Dear Jenny,Everything is fine i hope.
I would like to tell you that I normally likes science subject such as biology, chemistry and physics. But specifically I like biology; why am I most like biology and not other subject? Because;
It help us to know how to conserve our environment by clearing bushes, burring waste and cleaning all things which surrounding us in order to be protected against disease.
It help to know how disease is transmitted, effects and prevention. For example CHOLERA, is caused by eating contaminated food and water also uncleaned environment so in order to avoid this disease you have to put your environment clean and avoid eating contaminated food and water. ;
It help us to know how to conserve our environment by clearing bushes, burring waste and cleaning all things which surrounding us in order to be protected against disease .
It help us to know living things and non living things and their characteristics.
Also in biology I mostly like the topic known as PERSONAL HYGIENE AND GOOD MANNER. Personal hygiene is the practice of keeping your body belongings and the environment clean in order to maintain good health. Good manner is a behaviour that is normally acceptable in the society. The following are the principle of personal hygiene and good manner.
Wash your body every day.
Always wear a clean clothes.
Keep the environment clean.
Keep your nails short.
Avoid foul language.
Sit in a good pasture.
Do not interrupt when other person is talking. the following are the importance of good manner and personal hygiene.
It make a person to be respectable in the society.
It help to maintain good health.
it is important for personal appearance.
it make you to be a roll model in the society.
Jenny
Sat, November 4, 2017 at 7:40 am GMT
Dear students,
Welcome to the TSF family. It is a privilege for me to work with you. Though my welcome may come a little late. Please know how lucky you are to be included in this big family. Hope you are happy and do your best to achieve your goal. Opportunity does not come by easily, you need to remember to grab this chance and make your life different. Put your greatest effort and make your dream come true.
I am having some health problem; hence I am not able to reply to your journal promptly. Please know that all the TSF staff do care a lot about you. I will try to write to you more often after I gain my health back. Thank you for your understanding.
-Jenny
kate
Sun, October 29, 2017 at 9:32 pm GMT
Dear Students, By now, you have come along way this school year. We hope school has gone well for you, you have studied hard and are meeting your goals.
Where we live, winter is here and it has started to snow already. We don’t get around as easily so we stay home and read and now I am making soap for Christmas gifts!
How will you celebrate your holidays?! Will you Be with your family?!
We wish you happiness and all the success you dream of.
All the best, kate adams
Jonathan
Fri, October 27, 2017 at 3:43 am GMT
Dear Students,

I love to collect wisdom from different sources that are meaningful to me.
Below are a few of my favorites that I would like to share with you:

1) When you master your emotions, you master your life
Anger. This is one emotion that is sure to pop up sometime during the day. How you deal with your anger says a lot about who you are as a person. How well do you manage your emotions? Do you have a harsh reaction if someone says something insulting to you? Anger can be a destructive emotion if not managed properly.

2) Respect other people’s opinions even when they differ from your own.

Conflict. It’s rare that two people agree on most topics. Conflict is everywhere. It happens at work, home, with family and friends. Disagreeing isn’t the problem (although most people think it is). The problem is not giving value to the opinions of others.

3) Experience The Joy Of Learning
Each time you learn something new you gain more knowledge and with more knowledge come more confidence. Learning helps us become more adaptable and flexible to new situations. Learning encourages us to be more creative and innovative in our thinking and we are therefore more comfortable with the unknown.
Reading books is a great way for us to learn. To fully embrace the joy of learning, never stop reading and searching for more knowledge.

4) Touch someone’s soul with your kindness
Random Acts of Kindness. It’s the little things in life that matter most. Hold a door, smile at people. Kindness does not cost much and it touches the soul of another person.

5) Speech is a powerful tool.
Your words. Watch your words carefully. They can be daggers or building blocks. You can crush the spirit of someone or make them feel like they can conquer the world. Taste your words before you spit them out. Words are your thoughts coming to life. It’s your choice.

What are your favorite quotes and wisdom to live by? I’d love to hear your thought on that.
Cheers,
Jonathan Gilbert
Martina
Wed, October 25, 2017 at 6:00 am GMT
Hello Judy. Thank you for you to visit us. i hope you will be with us again and again
Judy
Tue, October 10, 2017 at 12:13 am GMT
Hello students,

I finally got back to the US last week.
It has been a very long trip to Tanzania this year total three weeks.

I was very happy to meet all of you and know everyone better.

My trip started from Karatu. I visited 5 schools in Karatu and I learn where do you go to school every day.

I am very happy to know all of you are doing well and every of you has a dream that you want to be successful one day. I encourage all of you to try your best to reach you own destination.

The get together was so well prepared and done by each of you. I am very happy to saw all your science presentations and poems you wrote to TSF and me. I will treasure them all my life.

I can say I am very proud to all of you. Keep up the good work I want to see each of you one day get to
good University/College to reach your own dream.

After Karatu, I went to ARUSHA attended the TED Global conference and visited couple schools in ARUSHA.
I enjoyed the TED conference this year. It was focused on the Africa, specially in agriculture, health and education.

Mr. Amos was a volunteer there, he had great experience being this Global conference and met people from around the world.
He had a life experience at the conference, where he was able to meet a group of bright inventive and talented group of people.

Later I went to Iringa. Iringa almost the second hometown for me. I have been there six times.
I visited all 8 schools in Iringa and meet all of you in person. I was very happy to meet you.

I had a great time at the get together party. All of you did a wonderful presentation. I am very happy to know all of you had fun that night.

My this year Tanzania trip was set MMM computer center for most of the 13 TSF schools.
At Iringa, We build total 5 new computer center in Iringa girls, Klerruu, Lugalo, Ebenezer, Miyomgoni and Update one MMM center at Ummusalama. We build one new computer center at Karatu Secondary School and update one MMM center at Ganako.

I am very proud of building the MMM computer center in most of the TSF schools. I really want all of you to go to the computer center to learn every subject you are interested from the RACHEL PLUS.
In the future everyone work will be on the computer. I hope that every single of you tell me what do you learn from the RACHEL PLUS.
I would like you could to start the debate team in your school so you all could practice how to speak in the public. Have the Math Club and challenge each other on the Math.

They will all benefit your long-term confidence.

I hope I will hear from all of you soon.
Samwel
Tue, October 3, 2017 at 12:35 pm GMT
Hello student
Hopping that every thing is all right. My name is SAMWEL MASSAWE from Klerruu Secondary School Iringa Tanzania. As a student I would like to share to you about LIFE SKILLS.....
A skill is the ability of an individual to apply his/her mental and physical power to control the environment. It involves things like thinking, playing and implementation so as to solve social, political, economic and culture problems. These skills are the ability to understand one self, build sound relationships with others, survive under difficult circumstances, act responsibly and safely, and solve problems. It addresses the balance between knowledge, attitude and life skills....
There are various needs of life skills........
As children develop, their life begins to change. Adolescents may develop a variety of life skills to prepare them to face challenges, take up family responsibility, make decisions and think about what they want to be in the future. Life skills education addresses these issues for the benefit of the individual and society at large. Life skills equip adolescents with knowledge and attitudes that should lead to the requirement behavior. They reduce health risk and raise awareness on health and related behavior such as sexual abuse, drug abuse, violence, drunkenness, unwanted pregnancy, sexual transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV/AIDS. Life skills play a decisive role in helping to prevent these behaviors and enlightening teenagers about these challenges so that they can protect themselves.
There are various sources of Life skills such sources of Life Skills where people learn from are
1. Family: Parents, guardians and other relatives are primary source from whom we learn different life skills.
2. Neighbors: We learn the different ways that people live from our neighbors. Good neighbors help us to behave well.
3. Friends: Friends helps us to acquire various life skills. Exchanging good ideas with friends help to mold us in to well-behaved individuals.
4. Schools: The good education we get at school enables us to develop skills for life.
5. Society: the way people live in the society allows an individual to learn what is expected of him/her and how he/she should behave in different circumstances.
6. Religion: Good religion teachings help to get skills which enable us to live harmoniously in society Note: The above mentioned sources of life skills are sources of positive and progressive life skills.
That is all about.
..........<<<<<<<<<<THANK YOU AND HAVE A NICE DAYS>>>>>>>>>>..........

To replay me just click my name then vew more and then post a journal at my profile.
Martina
Sat, September 23, 2017 at 9:18 am GMT
Hello Karen.how are you. This week i was busy reading about the history subject and i share the topic in history about the period before colonial rule as follows.
PRELUDE TO COLONIALISM
By the second half of the 19Th Century the forces of Industrial Capital were closing in on Africa. The campaign against Slave Trade on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans all over the continental there was a situations of abolition of slave Trade. The work complited after Missionaries to increase struggle of this campaign King Leopold of Belgium’s armed gang of robbers” The Force Publicque” conquered the colony on that area and Zaire was main example. Zanzibar tolorated in cloves and coconuts plantations up to 20TH Century. Portuguese Capitalists used contract labour in plantations of Angola,Sao Thone and Mozambique .The states of Dahomey , Benin ,Ashanti and Muslim States of Western Sudan. Another factor which perpetuated slavery internally was absence of immediate alternative economic which gave rise to indegenous people, abolitions means erossion of economic to the people reasons for Europeans to abolish Slave Trade were First because they had already accumulated wealth in markets of Large Scale Industries Secondly they needed to open up new sources of materials for their Industries. Finally colonialism become the solution of European Capitalists to control raw materials, cheap labours and markets for their finished goods. Traders needed to abolish this trade in order to open legitimate or free trade which made people to produce many productions because they were free .In West Africa British, German, Dutches, Portuguese and French campaign to control area around river Senegal, Gambia and Niger. Explorers such as Mungo Park form Britain in 1780 and Richard Lander went to west Africa and get interest of their nation to have colonies in all areas they explorer Missionaries were the Third agents of colonialism who spreaded christianity of Africa by Europeans .Examples were London Missionary Society .The church Missionary Society, Roman Catholic Missions to Central Africa. The other examples were in Kenya, Uganda, Malawi where David Livingstone from Britain.
Karen
Mon, September 4, 2017 at 2:11 am GMT
Hello Students!

I wanted to write to say hello to you all and to ask how your school year is going?

Almost all of the United States has been watching and reading about the hurricane that came ashore in the state of Texas last week, bringing very large amounts of rain up to 52 inches in 3 days. They had named the storm
older entries

Share Martina's story

Other Students

100% of your donations to students fund their education.

  • Gideon

    0%

    Gideon

    Tanzania

    I have experience planting vegetables because my parents do that. Also, we have a garden at our home. Therefore, that is experience I have had in life. Apart from that experience, I also had a difficult experience when I failed my geography exam. That enabled me to learn how to cooperate with other students. I was so proud of myself when I performed well in my national exam. The memorable and happiest moment in my life will be when I reach my dream of being pilot. I will be so happy. My biggest dream is to be a pilot. I will get there through studying hard in physics, geography, and mathematics. After reaching my dream, I will help my parents to modify their cultivation system and to become professional farmers. From there they can expand the area of cultivation into a large plantation. Once I get a chance to have the power to change my country, I will build many airports in each region and some districts. This will help in the flexibility of transportation in my country.

    • Raised $0
    • Needs $200

    School Year 2024

  • Bertha

    42%

    Bertha

    Tanzania

    Notable experiences in my life are, first, passing my standard seven examination and, second, entering secondary school. My most difficult experience was when I started to learn English. I have learned that if you want to do something, you have to work hard. I felt proud was when I entered secondary school. My most memorable and happiest thoughts are from when I celebrated at my birthday party. My dream is to be an electrical engineer. I will get there through studying hard and doing well in science subjects. If I had the power to change my country, I would like to improve the electricity supply especially in rural areas because there are shortages of electric power.

    • Raised $105
    • Needs $145

    School Year 2024

  • Godfridi

    0%

    Godfridi

    Tanzania

    Experiences in my life are when I failed my examination during primary education and also when my parents failed to pay food for me. My difficult experiences in my life are when my parents have insufficient enough money to pay for all my basic needs at school such as food and other school contributions. The thing that makes me feel so proud of myself is when I succeeded in joining O-level education. This makes me feel that I will, I must, I can do everything. The most memorable and happiest thing in my life will be to reach my dream of being a doctor general so as I can help other people in society. My future dream is to be a GOOD surgical doctor. After me reaching my dream, I will give back help to my society and family, but also to WEF. I need to work hard upon reaching my dream in my life. Once I get chance to have power of changing anything in country, I will improve the education system by converting science subjects from theory to practical. In most of our schools, they teach science subjects mostly theoretically. I will start from there because as we know education is the key to every success in our people.

    • Raised $0
    • Needs $200

    School Year 2024

    • See more students