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Joyland Organization.
Who Are We?
Why did we start?
Education and Future.
Joyland Organization started in 2018, and its founders are Gasper John Ngalawa and Ruth Wilson Mtatuu. The reason for this organization is due to the lack of quality/better education for underprivileged families (the less fortunate and orphans).
The Joyland organization aims to provide education, healthcare, and other essential services and needs to orphans and vulnerable children in Tanzania. The center offers a home for 24 orphans. It also provides preschool education to local children whose families can't send them to a public school.
The heart of the Joyland organization is a non-profit that works to break the cycle of poverty by providing educational opportunities for orphans and disadvantaged children. It's located in Esilalei Ward, Mto wa mbu, Arusha, Tanzania.
Objectives.
Joyland also provides a home for 24 children, offering preschool education using English as the means of communication. So, Joyland is the hope for children from poor families to get the best education and a brighter future.
About Us
John Ngalawa & Ruth
My name is Gaspen John Ngalawa, and I started this project five years ago with my wife, Ruth. We were really fortunate, and thanks to the support of others, we were able to continue studying and eventually make it to university. Without that help, we would never have been able to move on to secondary school and then to university. At university, both Ruth and I studied Education, and after we graduated, I got a job with World Vision Tanzania in the Manyara region, while Ruth found work with another organization that focused on helping children’s education. Through those jobs, we saw firsthand the challenges that kids were facing.
After finishing our studies, we decided to volunteer at a school to help the kids in elementary and middle school. After a while teaching, I decided to leave my job and help the children in our community by creating this NGO. With my wife's help, I set up an orphanage to take in kids who had lost their parents or came from broken families in our community. At the same time, I built a small public bilingual preschool for families who couldn't afford to send their kids to a private school. After founding the NGO, Ruth and I decided she would continue working as a teacher while I took care of the organization. The first four years were really tough since being such a small organization with almost no income meant we had very little support, except for the tourists passing through Joyland.
Currently, there are 24 boys and girls in the orphanage between 15 and 3 years old. In the future we would like to be able to help more people. We also plan to build a new school and a new orphanage near where we are now.