Girls Education Collaborative, Inc.

There is nothing a girl can’t do! 

Millions of girls around the world are out of school, simply because they are a girl. GEC works with local change makers to drive social change through the power of girl’s education.

Girls Education Collaborative (GEC) grew out of a group of committed, thoughtful people from Buffalo, NY, who saw an opportunity to partner with a locally led effort in an underserved area to provide safe, quality education for girls. The GEC mission is to facilitate social change by equipping marginalized, at-risk girls with education, skills, and agency to realize their fullest potential. We do this through deep partnerships with locally driven initiatives in rural, under-served areas of the global south.

The Kitenga Secondary School for Girls

On 1,000 acres in a remote village in northern Tanzania, Africa, where life is hard and poverty is generational, a transformative project is underway: quality education and life skills for girls who need it most. 

GEC’s first project is with the Immaculate Heart Sisters of Africa, in Kitenga Village, Tanzania. While the Sisters had an ambitious vision to build the Kitenga Secondary School for Girls (KSSG), they were unable to attract necessary attention and support from the global development community.

Recognizing an extreme need in the region and opportunity to align with a local change-agent, GEC locked arms with the Sisters in 2012. This proved to be a critical and pivotal partnership for IHSA, as together with GEC, they built the school and opened doors five years later.

GEC was able to bring much needed resources, planning expertise, and thought partnership to jointly carry out the Sisters’ vision and create an outstanding residential school for some of the world’s most marginalized girls.

Today, GEC’s partnership with the Sisters continues to thrive. One hundred girls currently attend KSSG, and this number will grow by 40% in January 2020.

We are seeking donations to help these amazing young women obtain athletic equipment for their sports programs. Your donation will help us purchase the following items for the school: sports bras, sneakers, soccer uniforms with stockings, soccer bibs, soccer balls soccer goal net, soccer goal posts, soccer goal cross bars, volleyballs, volleyball uniforms, volleyball bibs, volleyball nets, volleyball net posts, hand balls, hand ball uniforms, hand ball bibs, hand ball nets, hand ball goal posts, and hand ball cross bars.

Two years ago an amazing school for girls opened in rural Tanzania - The Kitenga School for Girls.

On August 16th the dorm had a serious fire. Luckily, everyone escaped unharmed.
Much was lost however. Everyone got out with 'the clothes on their backs'.  And the dorm is uninhabitable.


We are Girls Education Collaborative (GEC). We helped the Immaculate Heart Sisters of Africa build and open this remarkable residential school for girls. Now we are going to help them re-OPEN the school and re-BUILD the dorm.

The girls went home for two weeks so the school can prepare  temporary dorm rooms in the new classrooms  GEC just built but are not yet in use. 

So work begins NOW - to change classrooms to bedrooms so 70 students can come back to the school they love on August 31st!   


Kitenga is tough and so are we. Not going to lie, the days and weeks ahead won't be easy. Uniforms, mattresses, mosquito nets, school books........and more. Gone.

Just as we were getting ready to build a NEW dorm for the growing school, this huge set-back takes place. But again, most importantly, people are safe. Buildings can be re-built, mattresses can be re-bought, and together, that's what we'll do.

We need to raise $25,000 to re-OPEN  the school:   the emergency work around converting classrooms to dorms (i.e adding showers, bathrooms, solar electrification, security fencing) and replacing what else was lost:  mattresses, uniforms, school books  etc

100% of your gift goes directly to the emergency 're-OPEN & re-BUILD Fund' being sponsored by GEC.  All of your dollars will go immediately to work to reopen the school and then rebuild the dorm.


If we all pitch in, we can help get these girls back to the school they love. Any size gift will make a huge difference! If we surpass our goal (and I hope we do!) it will  go towards re-BUILDING the dorm. 

There's Nothing a Girl Can't Do! So please join me in getting the Kitenga School for Girls back on its feet!


PS: These are girls who mostly live from communities where if they are not in school they may be forced into child marriage or dropping out of school to help their families. Many of their families live in critical poverty. These girls want their education. They seek better futures. Let's get them back into school!