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Staff Stipends

Staff and student sponsorship are crucial for us as it is the way we keep our doors open. Unfortunately less than a handful of our students can pay any substantial amount toward their fees. It is therefore essential that we find sponsors for nearly every one of them. We operate in that tension of not doing too much for each student but yet doing enough. We are into our second year of severe famine due to prolonged drought. Just to enable our students to come to school, we have had to supply their families with maize. This is very costly, but we have received generous donations from our mission friends from around the world and have enough on hand to feed the families for the first semester of this year.

To decrease our dependence on missionaries and to promote African theology is one of our goals, but it is costly. Missionaries are free, but when we hire Tanzanian staff they must be paid. To keep a good native staff means that they not only must be paid, but they must be paid well, at least by Tanzanian standards. We are currently in need of a qualified librarian. This specialty is almost non-existent in Tanzania, and after four months of advertising we have had not one Tanzanian application. Currently we have a qualified Ugandan and a semi-qualified Kenyan. It will take a good salary package to attract them to Dodoma. In addition, we have been awarded a grant of 50 computers by Trinity Wall Street. Setting these up, maintaining them, and starting an email café for income is going to require a full time computer expert. This also will require a sponsorship.

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