Bashiru Gulana |
"I am nineteen years old and one of the first students to enroll at GOSESO. Our instructors have an amazing ability to teach complex issues in a way that we can all understand. The small class size at GOSESO ensures that we get individualized, personal attention from our teachers. What impresses most is availability of numerous field trips to natural reserves, such as Gombe and Mahale National Parks. Our campus is also in a special ecological area, located on the peak of Kitobe Forest at Kiganza village, about eight miles from Kigoma Town, Tanzania." |
Shabani Madaga |
"GOSESO is a unique place for me to acquire life skills. I am being
nurtured to become a good leader and a protector of our environment. Here,
we are not taught "what to think" but rather "how to think." My friends
and I will always be good ambassadors of GOSESO's mission here and beyond
the school perimeters." |
Mwanaidi Kashindi |
"I wish Founder Yared Fubusa a very long life. He has taught us through
examples and illustrations the importance of emancipatory education and
the need for human beings to live in a sustainable environment. I am very
inspired by how the Founder overcame his own remarkable life barriers
and was able to accomplish so much against all odds. I want to be like
him when I grow up. So far, my time here at GOSESO is the highlight of
my life. I will persuade my friends to join GOSESO next year." |
Khalfan Sadick |
"Our school is located in an ecologically diverse environment close
enough to the water to get nice breezes from Lake Tanganyika. I like the
school curriculum that uses different teaching approaches, both formal
and informal. Our last field trip of 29th September, 2010 to Gombe Stream
National Park was a good educational adventure. Apart from baboons and
monkeys that live in our campus, we got to see other wildlife in their
natural habitat for the first time. We saw chimpanzees, red colobus monkeys,
red tailed monkeys, blue monkeys, and other wildlife." |
Agripina Rutebuka |
"Our teachers and administrators encourage us to think creatively.
I have really enjoyed a few lectures given by Founder Yared Fubusa. This
is the first time I ever saw any Powerpoint presentation. Sometimes I
feel as though the Founder is a lone soldier in the battle to eradicate
illiteracy, protect environment, and improve rural livelihoods in our
region. The emancipatory education that we receive at GOSESO will be a
key to my future successes. I wish the speedy construction of more academic
and residential buildings so many more students from poor backgrounds
like mine can get a world-class education here." |
Amisa Fadhili |
"The school management team cares about all of us, including employees.
The Founder is a good leader to emulate. I want to be a responsible citizen
leader like him when I grow up. The school has a special human health
advisor and we call her our school Mom. She cares about our health."
|
Salum Amrani |
"I am proud to be a part of a school whose central focus is to
preserve our local natural resources, especially our endangered water
resources. Our school curriculum encourages us to explore our local environments.
Various researchers from other institutions in Tanzania and abroad visit
our campus to share with us their research methodologies and results.
We are taught how to conduct research and use the results to cope with
our local environments. Our recent visitors taught us how to build and
maintain ecologically-friendly ovens. " |
Consolata Boniphace |
"GOSESO was the first place that caused me to consider environmental
stewardship. Our campus has many different species of medicinal and fruit
plants. I like having study group sessions under mango trees. We eat our
meals under huge trees that have grown on campus. We co-exist with baboons
and monkeys that entertain us. Our last field trip to nearby Gombe National
Park was the first time I saw chimpanzees. I cannot wait to see our Kitobe
Forest grow to look like the Gombe forest." |
David John |
"I love the location of our campus, on the peak of Kitobe Forest.
We receive a nice breeze from all sides and from Lake Tanganyika. A lot
of effort has been made to restore the forest. A quiet environment is
conducive for our academic well-being. We also receive visitors from different
cultures and countries, which gives us a chance for cross-cultural understanding.
" |
Anifa Yoas |
"Our teachers and administrators invest in our personal success.
Apart from good meals we get on campus, our teachers give us weekly tests
to measure our academic progress. The small class size ensures that teachers
can really measure our individual progress. The local natural environments
are becoming our living laboratories. I think more Africans will soon
discover GOSESO and come to learn the good work and research that will
continue to be done here." |
Twaha Juma |
"There is visionary leadership in our midst. This is evident in
the construction area in which several well-planned permanent buildings
are being constructed to accommodate not just our generation, but many
more generations to come. Work morale among GOSESO employees is increasing.
I am always inspired by the leadership style of our Executive Director
Dr. Yared Fubusa who, I suppose, has chosen to abandon luxury American
life and has, instead, come to live and work with us. I admire his simplicity.
He is our walking and breathing role model. " |
