Young people in Tanzania have a bright future.
Quest Forward Learning offers youth across Tanzania a high quality secondary education, and the opportunity to gain the mindset, habits, and skills to create value for their families, their villages, and their country.
Helping young people become value creators
Secondary school today should help students prepare for a successful life and give them the skills they need to find a purposeful role in society. Instead, most students sit passively day after day, diligently taking notes, and rarely speaking, focused mostly on passing the next exam with good marks.
Instead of learning quietly and passively, students today need more: an opportunity to develop and practice skills that help them succeed in the world. Quest Forward Learning combines high-quality academic materials with student-centric, hands-on teaching and learning that activates students and helps them become lifelong learners.
Mentoring Beyond Instruction
Our methodology emphasizes mentoring, offering teachers opportunities to support individual students and small groups directly and interactively. Through our discovery-driven curricula and effective learning technology, Quest Forward mentors guide young people in learning the academic materials appropriate for them, as well as the mindset, habits, and skills they need to work in the world as value creators. Well-equipped like this, students will move into the world with focus and purpose, able to achieve their dreams.
Quest Forward Schools support a wide diversity of students and teachers across Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar.
1,904
Students
254
Teachers
28
Schools
A Modern Method
Across Africa and in Tanzania, most students learn passively: they sit quietly at their desks listening to their teacher and taking notes. However, our research shows that when young adults are active and engaged, their learning outcomes improve—they don’t just memorize but they understand, and they learn essential skills in the process. Quest Forward Learning is designed to help students learn actively, gain competence in important skills, and develop effective habits for learning and work.
Reviewed & Approved by TIE
OE has combined its innovative method for learning with the Tanzania national syllabus. All learning materials build on the syllabus as required, and enable students to learn required material. OE’s materials are designed as short projects—we call them “quests”—that cover every topic and subtopic of the Form 1 and Form 2 (and soon Form 3 and Form 4) requirements. Before publication, the Tanzania Institute of Education (TIE) reviews and approves each quest to ensure it meets the mandatory standards.
Student-Centered Learning
Student-centered learning is national policy in Tanzania, but it is also challenging to implement. OE’s method places students at the center of learning activities by encouraging them to drive their own education. To help teachers shift to truly student-centered teaching and learning, OE provides regular training sessions on weekends, one-on-one support of teachers, and peer-learning opportunities within and across schools in Tanzania.
Through Quest Forward Learning, we are seeing our students developing a mastery and deep comprehension of subjects and growing in their critical thinking skills. The students I mentor feel very empowered in their learning and growth. As a teacher, I am excited for their futures!
Being a Quest Forward Learning Mentor is the biggest challenge any teacher will ever take. With Quest Forward Learning, students and teachers are both learners and they need each other to attain the higher learning goal.
Quest Forward Learning makes my learners to be most curious. It is like sailing in uncharted waters, I go in with questions that I anticipate learners to ask but there’s always something new.
Our Team
Tupokigwe Abnery
Mentor Teacher
Dickson Hezron
Project Coordinator
Wilbert Ijumba
Director of Curriculum Development
Glory Kilewo
Research & Evaluation Coordinator
Eligrania Lema
Lead Implementation Manager
Jerome Massawe
Technology Specialist
Violeth Mbando
Implementation Manager
Leveri Mlaki
Mentor Teacher
Daniel Mlambo
Program Manager
Mary Modest
Administrative Assistant
Fredy Mollel
Mentor Teacher
Jemma Mziray
Pathways Program Coordinator
Martin Russell
Director, Africa Operations
Beatrice Tesha
Mentor Teacher
Daniel Ambrose
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Kiswahili
Proches Anthony
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: English
Samweli Bakari
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Chemistry
Mbezi Benjamin
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: History
Mussa Challa
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Civics
Ian George
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Geography
Willium Gunga
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Biology
Mbise Jackson
Pwani, Tanzania Subjects: Geography
Pellagie Joseph
Arusha, Tanzania Subjects: Civics
Rehema Justus
Arusha, Tanzania Subject: Biology
Sarah Kisoka
Morogoro, Tanzania Subject: Mathematics
Michael Kasto
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Mathematics
Rahabu Kimaro
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Kiswahili
Magdalena Kitinya
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Civics
Neema Kiwia
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Kiswahili
Tumaini Lyamuya
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Geography
Gabriel Lyimo
Arusha, Tanzania Subject: Geography
Elia Mahushi
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Biology
Sande Maleko
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Geography
Salum Manjoti
Arusha, Tanzania Subject: Kiswahili
Janeth Mushi
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Chemistry
Godson Manson
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Mathematics
Amos Mchomvu
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Geography
Abdalah Mkila
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: History
Riziki Mlay
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Kiswahili
Hosiana Mmanyi
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Geography
Felister Mndasha
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Kiswahili
Kerbin Mongi
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: English
Godbless Mosha
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Physics
Emmanuel Mrema
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Kiswahili
Godbless Msami
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Biology
Juma Msangi
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Biology
Boaz Msechu
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: English
Ndenengo Msele
Arusha, Tanzania Subject: Geography
Israel Musali
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Geography
Janeth Mushi
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Chemistry
Sisawia Mushi
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Physics
Rugabera Mwijage
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Biology
Winnie Philip
Pwani, Tanzania Subject: English
Erick Prudence
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: English
Baraka Samwel
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Physics
Emmanuel Sekile
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Subject: Chemistry
About Us
Opportunity Education Foundation is an International NGO registered in Tanzania and headquartered in Moshi. OEF was established in 2005 by US entrepreneur, founder, and first CEO of TD Ameritrade Joe Ricketts, after a visit to Tanzania. He came to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and fell in love with the people of Tanzania. He resolved to help, and to do so by improving education for Tanzanian children and youth. OEF works closely with Opportunity Education, a US-based foundation that developed Quest Forward Learning.
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