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Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years

Hacker News Best 08 October 2026 15h ago
Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
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Ten years ago I was 19 and traveling through East Africa, and I spent a summer in Ibumila, a village in the Njombe highlands of Tanzania. There's no school in the village. The nearest one is a boarding school an hour away that costs a few hundred dollars a year, which is out of reach for most families there and was about two weeks of summer job money for me. The daughter of the family I stayed wit
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