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.
1,463
Students
105
Teachers
10
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.
Leadership 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

Victoria Ulimboka
Career Mentor
Quest Design Team

Daniel Ambrose
Kiswahili
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Proches Anthony
English
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Samweli Bakari
Chemistry
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Mbezi Benjamin
History
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Mussa Challa
Civics
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Ian George
Geography
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Willium Gunga
Biology
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Mbise Jackson
Geography
Pwani, Tanzania

Pellagie Joseph
Civics
Arusha, Tanzania

Rehema Justus
Biology
Arusha, Tanzania

Michael Kasto
Mathematics
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Rahabu Kimaro
Kiswahili
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Sarah Kisoka
Mathematics
Morogoro, Tanzania

Magdalena Kitinya
Civics
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Neema Kiwia
Kiswahili
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Tumaini Lyamuya
Geography
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Gabriel Lyimo
Geography
Arusha, Tanzania

Elia Mahushi
Biology
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Sande Maleko
Geography
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Salum Manjoti
Kiswahili
Arusha, Tanzania

Godson Manson
Mathematics
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Amos Mchomvu
Geography
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Abdalah Mkila
History
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Riziki Mlay
Kiswahili
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Hosiana Mmanyi
Geography
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Felister Mndasha
Kiswahili
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Kerbin Mongi
English
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Godbless Mosha
Physics
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Emmanuel Mrema
Kiswahili
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Godbless Msami
Biology
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Juma Msangi
Biology
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Boaz Msechu
English
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Ndenengo Msele
Geography
Arusha, Tanzania

Israel Musali
Geography
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Janeth Mushi
Chemistry
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Sisawia Mushi
Physics
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Rugabera Mwijage
Biology
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Winnie Philip
English
Pwani, Tanzania

Erick Prudence
English
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Baraka Samwel
Physics
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Emmanuel Sekile
Chemistry
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

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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