Category Archives: Schools for Life

Climate Change and Schools for Life

Climate Change and Schools for Life
COCO is committed to reducing harmful impacts on the environment. To do so, COCO incorporates environmentally friendly and sustainable techniques into our School for Life elements! In terms of shelter, COCO uses locally-sourced materials – reducing our carbon footprint in needing to transport materials. These locally-sourced materials are sustainable and have minimal impact on the…
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Celebrating women in Tanzania

Celebrating women in Tanzania
International Women’s Day is a highlight of the COCO calendar, as we could not have the impact that we do without the incredible women that we work with in East Africa. One of the biggest barriers to achieving equal access to education is gender equality, but huge strides are being made by our partner organisations.…
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Well done Mshangano Secondary!

Well done Mshangano Secondary!
There's some friendly competition going on among Schools for Life partners in Tanzania. Watch out Hoja Secondary, Mshangano Secondary are coming for your top spot! Most of you will have heard of Hoja Secondary, the first school in our Schools for Life programme and most successful of our partner schools. For those of you who…
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Anti-Bullying Week

Anti-Bullying Week
This week it's Anti-Bullying Week: a week focused on raising awareness about bullying and working to prevent it. Whether it is verbal, physical, online or in-person, bullying has a significant impact on a child’s life well into adulthood – with this being a global issue. Just like here in the UK, bullying is an issue…
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