Green Hope School was founded in Tanzania in 2011 by Harriet Joel, a local school teacher, and two volunteer college students from the U.S. (Robert Snyder and Pooja Ami Patel). Harriet recognized that the lack of early English education in poorer communities in Tanzania negatively impacted the local children through upper levels of schooling. Her dream was opening a school in her home village with a comprehensive educational plan that emphasized learning of both English and Swahili from nursery school.

Since its establishment in 2012, Green Hope School has aided over 200 children from the nursery through primary levels and has been widely supported by the local community. The school is entirely locally run on the ground and has the ultimate goal of self-sustainability.

Green Hope Orphanage, Inc., was founded later that same summer in the United States, with the short-term goal of providing support and resources for the school, and the long-term goal of implementing a plan that would allow the school to be entirely self-sustaining

The school has come a long way since 2011! Green Hope is finally embarking on it's long-anticipated expansion and sustainability project. 

Green Hope is a fully recognized, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Currently, our fundraising efforts will go towards the purchase of new land and building materials as well as the employment of contractors and workers to help Harriet's dream become a reality.