Nancy Charles
Student from Imani Primary School (Tanzania)
Student from Imani Primary School (Tanzania)
“I am grateful to the school for the good teachers I have had during my studies, who have helped me achieve my goal. When I first saw the tablets, I was very happy because I had never used one before. I was afraid of breaking it, but I felt safe, and with a little practice I soon got the hang of it. I learned how to use it thanks to my coordinator, Mark. Now I am able to use it in most subjects, such as English, math, science and Swahili. I am very happy to be part of the group of children who benefit from the digital classroom. Thank you, ProFuturo. Thank you, teachers. Thank you, coordinators. On behalf of my classmates, thank you.”
These are the words of thanks from Nancy Charles Mtui. In Tanzania, there are thousands of boys and girls who, like Nancy, live in vulnerable environments in Dar es Salaam, Moshi, Mafinga-Iringa, Dodoma and Morogoro. Thanks to our collaboration with the Salesians of Don Bosco, ProFuturo offers its comprehensive digital education solution, through which students are being introduced to an education in 21st-century skills. However, children in this country, like children in so many places around the world, do not have it easy. Girls even less so.
When I grow up, I would like to be a doctor
UNESCO estimates that the gender gap in digital skills remains significant in Sub-Saharan Africa. According to its 2024 Gender Report, Technology on Her Terms, in the region only between 40 and 44 women have spreadsheet skills for every 100 men. In addition, in most African countries, fewer than one in three STEM graduates are women. The good news is that wherever we bring our educational program, absenteeism decreases and school enrollment increases.
In 2024, 97 schools in this country, 31,075 students and more than 1,000 teachers benefited from the program. Although our focus is on children, the key to their educational transformation is the teaching community itself. Training teachers, especially in information technology and innovative teaching methods, allows us to motivate them and prepare them to integrate digital technology into their teaching practices.
Since we live in an increasingly digital world, and most of the jobs of the future do not even exist yet, ProFuturo’s education model is based on skills rather than content. New technologies allow us to bring quality education to any part of the world, however remote. That is why our great hope, our aspiration and our challenge is for Nancy and all the boys and girls in Tanzania and the other 30 countries where we work to have access to the same education as children in Spain, France or the United States.