Local communities convene to discuss solutions to poor learning levels in Tanzania
WHAT: Local partner organization held public meetings to create awareness of low learning levels, followed by the creation of a small community-based remedial learning program for 3 months
WHERE: Mdanda District in Tanzania
WHEN: For a period of 3 months in 2016
WHO: The 3-month community-based learning program was facilitated by Uwezo volunteers, identifying children who had not acquired basic skills and supporting them to improve reading and mathematics
WHY: Spurred through their own involvement with the Uwezo assessment, the district partner organization operating in Mdanda District held public meetings to discuss what could be done in the local community to assist those children who are being left behind to acquire basic skills in reading and mathematics
