Nurturing Minds, Inc.
Non-profit OrganizationsMassachusetts, United States11-50 Employees
Nurturing Minds, Inc. is a nonprofit organization based in Newtonville, Massachusetts, focused on improving access to quality education for girls in Tanzania. The group provides financial and technical support to programs that serve vulnerable girls, including those who are orphans or at risk of exploitation through child labor, with a current emphasis on supporting the Secondary Education for Girls’ Advancement (SEGA) initiative and a girls’ secondary boarding school in Morogoro. The SEGA Girls School serves more than 270 students, aiming to cultivate values such as self-esteem, environmental stewardship, and independent thinking while expanding educational opportunities for girls who would otherwise have limited access to schooling. The organization envisions long-term sustainability through school-run enterprises, a second stream of paying students, an ongoing sponsorship program, and an endowment, positioning itself within the nonprofit sector that focuses on education and gender equality in Africa. A recent development involves the SEGA initiative’s ongoing work to establish the Morogoro boarding school and its broader efforts to support girls’ secondary education in Tanzania.