Mailisita Foundation

2011

Summer visits: The groups are able to see an operating school and a guesthouse near completion. Read more here.

2010

12/01/2010 Winter Visit: Arriving to warm weather, the group visits with the children and assesses progress on the guesthouse. Read more here.

7/5/2010 Summer Visit: The group heading out to visit this summer made it successfully. It sounds like they are very busy. Read more here.

1/31/2010 St. Joe's Link: We have added a page dedicated to St. Joseph's of Libertyville. This page will help us keep in contact with a local parish and see updates from their trip. Click on the link in the upper right of the page to read more.

1/11/2010 Big milestone: Today the school opened. 42 kids began class! The guesthouse is still underway. Thank you to all who are making this possible! Read more here.

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2009

12/2/2009 Head mistress hired: Mrs. Lucy Shayo who has been headmistress at a nearby primary school for the past 10 years was hired. Read more about the hiring and other updates here.

11/30/2009 Final Approval to Open School: Final signatures and the hiring of school officials is under way. Read more about these exciting developments here.

11/16/2009 Benefit Update: We are very pleased that in such a difficult financial year for so many we were able to raise over $15,000 for the foundation. Thank you to everyone who participated!

10/26/2009 November Benefit: Where and when: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at Mickey Finn's Amber Room in Libertyville, Illinois. The event begins at 6 pm and goes until 10:00 pm. Afterwards, feel free to stay and listen to Mickey Finn's evening band. The cost is $50 per person. Activities will include dinner, a silent auction, and a live auction featuring 3 nights at Disney World's Boardwalk Villa for Casimir Pulaski weekend. For tickets and donations, please see the form here.

9/24/2009: Crusader vision, the Holy Cross website highlights Matt Partain's visit to Mailisita. Click here to see the interview.

8/31/2009: "Mazel tov" to Jeremy Rose and Matt Coleman on their Bar Mitzvahs and for raising nearly $1,000 for the project -- and a garage full of thoughtfully donated school supplies!

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2008

October 16, 2008: A big ASANTE (thanks) to Oak Grove 8th Graders in Green Oaks who raised $564.11 in a bake sale for the project. They've decided to sponsor a child (joining the Watoto Club) and have the remaining $264.11 used toward buying food for the children. They collected easy-reader books and school supplies too!

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100% of donations go directly to purchasing of building materials, food, and labor for the construction of the education center. View plan summary here.

Mailisita Foundation is an IRS designated 501(c)(3) charity.

School enrollment: 280 kids.

It costs 40 cents a day to feed each student.

The Mailisita Foundation was created to develop a financially self-sustaining Education Center to serve the needs of a growing orphan population in rural Tanzania.

Mailisita is a village in Tanzania six miles outside of the town of Moshi. "Mailisita" is Swahili for "mile six". Mailisita is along the main road connecting Arusha, Moshi, and the Kilimanjaro International Airport.

Fr. Kawishe (right) is the Mailisita parish priest within the Catholic Diocese of Moshi, Tanzania. In addition to his many other responsibilities, Fr. Kawishe has been running a pre-school at the parish center serving about 100 children -- many of whom are orphaned or from families otherwise unable to pay for their children's education.

Building to serve the educational needs of a growing population of orphans and impoverished in rural Tanzania.

The proposed education center, shown left in its early building stages, will help children learn English. Learning English is needed to have a chance to compete for scarce secondary school openings. Learn more...

School Begins! Read more here.

Meet the children. Watch with your own eyes. These and others like them are the children Mailisita Foundation is helping. You can help them too. Donate today.

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To see all who seek education to be educated

To see orphan & underprivileged children in Mailisita are able to effectively compete for scarce secondary school openings

Create an English Primary School

Create a self-sustaining revenue source for the school