Our mission
CODEWA believes that every child deserves the best chance for a bright future. Our mission is to enable children to find their life dreams and work aspirations and support them to work towards them !
Our story
IT ALL STARTED IN JULY 2015
“Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much".
This was one of the historical meeting of CODEWA team. The meeting took place at Nazareth Hotel in Tabora, Tanzania.
In Tanzania, only three out of five Tanzanian adolescents, or 52 percent of the eligible school population, are enrolled in lower-secondary education and fewer complete secondary education. Many poor students are unable to attend school because of school-related costs such as transport to school, uniforms, and additional school materials such as books.
Moreover, according to the 2016 Tanzanian Demographic and Health Survey (TDHS), malnutrition affects a significant part of the population. Due to malnutrition 27.9% of the inhabitants in Tabora region suffer from growth stunting and 60% have anemia. It decreases school attendance and performance.
In line with this, as a school teacher, Mr. Sadath A. Mwamsema did notice that some children were going to school hungry, did not have school materials and, due to poor hygiene and lack of access to medicines, could not perform well in school and reach their full potential. In order to support them, he founded CODEWA in 2015 with Mr. Fredrick Sunday and they decided to spend a significant part of their incomes to buy school materials and food as well as to give them mental support to help them go through their hardships.
In 2016, Sadath met Dr. Pierre Rialland who came to Tanzania to conduct research with the University of Essex. As an economics researcher, he knew the great power of role models on children and, for instance, that exposing children to successful people they could identify to through movies could modify significantly their aspirations and increase their school results. After an inspiring meeting in October 2016, CODEWA decided to focus on inspiration for orphans and vulnerable children.
An innovative and sustainable funding model
Our milling business enables us to cover all our fixed cost.
Therefore, all donations go directly to programmes for our children !
Codewa´s milling business, Tabora (2023).