Dondo Kisiju Girls’ Hostel
The third girls’ hostel, opened in 2025 at Kisiju Secondary School in Dondo Ward, Mkuranga District. It accommodates 80 girls.
Kisiju Secondary School serves Dondo Ward in Mkuranga District — an area ARF describes as among the more remote and underserved parts of the district. The third hostel in the programme opened here in 2025.
Why this ward
ARF’s report describes girls at this school facing long distances to reach it, unsafe travel conditions, poor accommodation where any existed, and limited access to clean water and sanitation. The report states that this is the only school hostel in the entire ward.
That claim is reproduced as a statement made in the 2025 report rather than as a standing fact about the ward today. Whether it remains true has not been independently confirmed.
What was built
The hostel accommodates approximately 80 girls, providing safe accommodation with improved access to water and sanitation. Build a Life Foundation funded the construction. Together with Mwarusembe and Kiparang’anda, the three completed hostels accommodate 240 girls in a year.
What the school reported afterwards
The headmaster of Dondo Kisiju Secondary School reported improvements in attendance, concentration and the overall learning environment, and attributed better examination results to that change. Students at the school reported improved safety, comfort and focus.
A result that moved in both directions
The Form Four distributions for 2025 and 2026 are published below exactly as recorded, and they do not tell a uniformly positive story. Division Three rose sharply, from 8 candidates to 19. Division One rose from none to one. But Division Zero also rose, from 2 to 5, and Division Two fell from 4 to 3. The cohort itself grew, from 64 candidates to 81.
ARF’s report presents this section as evidence of improvement. The distribution is more mixed than that, and it is published here unaltered. A foundation that only ever shows results pointing upward is asking to be taken on trust rather than on evidence.
The heading above this data in the source report mistakenly refers to the Kiparang’anda hostel; the figures are Kisiju’s. The error is noted here rather than reproduced.
Form Four examination results
These are the division distributions as published by the National Examinations Council of Tanzania and reproduced in ARF's project reports. They are shown in full, without a derived percentage.
| Division | 2025 · before | 2026 · after |
|---|---|---|
| Division I | 0 | 1 |
| Division II | 4 | 3 |
| Division III | 8 | 19 |
| Division IV | 50 | 53 |
| Division 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Candidates | 64 | 81 |
Results moved in both directions: Division Three rose sharply while Division Zero also rose, from 2 to 5. The candidate cohort grew from 64 to 81. ARF’s report describes this section as an improvement; the distribution is published here unchanged.
Source: National Examinations Council of Tanzania (necta.go.tz), as reproduced in ARF project reports (Hostel Impact p.8). A change in results following a hostel opening is not by itself proof that the hostel caused it.
Objectives
Reach girls in one of the district’s more remote wards, where long journeys, unsafe travel and limited water and sanitation were affecting attendance.
What was delivered
Accommodates 80 girls in safe accommodation with improved access to water and sanitation.
Partner and community roles
Build a Life Foundation funded construction.
Reported results
The school reports improved attendance and concentration. Form Four examination distributions for 2025 and 2026 are published in full on this page, including results that moved in both directions.
Who this serves
Girls enrolled at Kisiju Secondary School accommodated in the hostel; 80 places.
How this is measured
NECTA published results (necta.go.tz). The 2026 distribution shows movement in both directions and is published unaltered.
Data notes
ARF’s report describes this as the only school hostel in Dondo Ward. That is reproduced as a statement from the 2025 report rather than as a standing fact.
Source: Impact Report on Girls’ Hostel Development and Educational Empowerment, pp. 8, 13, 15 · 2025–2026