As a teacher, I can do something for my family, for my community, and for my nation as a whole

By REGINA NGEREZA, Teacher Mentor, Tanzania

On World Teachers’ Day, as CAMFED and TES Global celebrate their new partnership for girls’ education, REGINA NGEREZA, a CAMFED-trained Teacher Mentor in rural Tanzania, brings her work to life.

There are so many students in need here, and so many parents who have never had a secondary education and do not know how important this is. So I have been doing the work of not just educating the students, but the parents, and the community as a whole.

I have been an English and Kiswahili teacher at my school for 10 years. There are about 1,000 students here. We have 240 dormitory places, because many children live too far away to make the journey every day, and many are orphans. Class sizes are big, more than 70 students per class. I have four streams, around 300 students. My days are long. I stay here until 10 in the evening…

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