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One-to-one mentoring, career days and structured guidance that connect study choices to real livelihoods.
Overview
Many secondary students in our partner communities have never met an engineer, accountant or nurse in person — so subject choices get made on guesswork rather than genuine interest or aptitude. Our Career Guidance & Mentorship programme puts working professionals directly alongside students, pairing them for regular one-to-one mentoring throughout the school year.
Beyond individual mentorship, we run career days and aptitude sessions that expose whole cohorts to vocational and professional pathways they may never have otherwise considered, and help students map their subject choices to the futures they actually want.
Why it matters
professional industries represented in our current mentor network, from engineering to healthcare to entrepreneurship.
Updates
Mentorship works best when it points to a real next step. We connect the students we mentor to these established Tanzanian pathways into work.
Ministry of Labour, Youth, Employment & the Disabled
The government's official jobs and digital-skills platform lists internships, apprenticeships and freelance opportunities, and offers free digital-skills training for young people entering the job market.
Visit official site →National Economic Empowerment Council (NEEC)
NEEC works with financial institutions and government to run regional forums connecting young professionals and entrepreneurs to mentors, market linkages and business-management training.
Selina Kingalame Foundation
Professionals from any field can become a mentor through our own Career Guidance programme — a direct way to open a door for a student the way someone once opened one for you.
Visit official site →Programmes, funding amounts and application windows change — we do our best to keep this list current, but always confirm details on the official website before applying.
Our process
Students register interest and are matched with a mentor based on career interest and personality fit.
An initial aptitude session helps the student and mentor understand where their strengths lie.
Structured one-to-one sessions run through the term, covering both academics and career planning.
We check in on subject choices, exam results and next steps, adjusting support as goals evolve.
In detail
Direct pairing with industry mentors for ongoing career coaching and life-skills guidance.
Interactive sessions exposing students to diverse vocational and professional pathways.
Helping students discover their strengths and map subject choices to future goals.
Impact so far
Common questions
Every mentor goes through a background check and an orientation session covering child safeguarding before being matched with a student.
Most mentors commit to roughly one session every two weeks, plus attending occasional career days — a manageable commitment we work around your schedule.
Yes — several of our current mentors are former mentees. It's one of our favourite parts of the programme.
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