Tusome Pamoja is a nonprofit organization that provides numeracy and literacy skills to students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE) children primarily from East African countries. Every Saturday, Tusome Pamoja holds weekly tutoring sessions where volunteers, teachers, and students work together and collaborate on group assignments. I co-founded this nonprofit in 2022 along with Liz Wiznerowicz and Kenya Gray who are both veterans in working with refugee and immigrant communities in the Richmond area.
As the youngest member of the leadership team, I manage a lot of the outreach, technology, advertisement, fundraising, and volunteer recruitment. This work has given me immense personal and learning experience and satisfaction in being able to make small but meaningful changes in the community.
Since its founding, in 2022, we have grown rapidly to accommodate almost 63 volunteers and 80+ students cumulatively and have raised close to $15,000 in funding.
Check out our website on this link