Mission Statement
Providing opportunities for Secondary and Tertiary Education in Central Africa
EdAid aims to raise funds to finance the educational needs, including start up,
infrastructure costs and support, and initial operating expenditure of selected
places of learning in developing countries. Such projects are selected from those
who will welcome on-going project reviews and audits through visits by EdAid representatives;
and who will demonstrate the ability to be self-sustaining in terms of finance and
work opportunities in the long term.
Board of Trustees
John Rowan BA LLB QC Whanganui Chairperson
My work has included tertiary and university teaching as well as leading national
seminars and practical skills training. The initial opportunity to build a secondary
school in Central Africa has challenged all my previous life experience. Since the
school opened in 2007, Mary and I travel each year to Western Tanzania to help the
local people with the school’s continuing development; and associated flow on projects
including a nursing school. We are evaluating requests to establish further schools.
Winton Davies BTh, LTh Paraparaumu Wellington
I have had a long association with helping and assisting people who are less fortunate
in our community. I offer a mix of extraversion, intuition, feeling and perception
which gives me a natural energy to work alongside people in pursuit of common aims.
Jeff Lee MBA Wellington
I have had over forty years association with East Africa including nine years full-time
industrial employment, thereafter occasional local consultancy work. Since 2005
I have made two visits to Western Tanzania where the present project is situated.
This was to do “hands on” practical help.
Doug Norris BSc UED Wellington
I was born in the Kingdom Lesotho in Southern Africa. Having started my career as
a science teacher, I changed to IT in the mining and oil industries. My roles in
South Africa, New Zealand, Pakistan and the Sultanate of Oman included training
local staff to fill roles traditionally allocated to expatriates. I married in 1973
and we have two daughters. My experience gained from living among people from a
diverse set of backgrounds has convinced me that a common worldwide need is the
availability of universal education. I believe that a sound education is the single
most important factor in alleviating poverty and bitterness in the world. EdAid
is ideally placed to contribute to the alleviation of the crisis resulting from
inadequate education facilities at secondary level and beyond.
Mary Rowan ATCL AIRMT Whanganui
Being keen to see and help young people develop has been a lifelong passion. I have
taught music privately and in schools, been the chair of parent teacher organisations
and a trustee of Collegiate School Whanganui . EdAid has given me a unique opportunity.
Helping young people in under-developed countries is a privilege, and now a major
part of my ongoing quest to see young people reach their highest potential.
Cliff Studman Wellington
Cliff is a an Hononary Professor of Research at St John’s University of Tanzania
at Dodoma Tanzanial.