The Amani Centre for Persons with Disabilities, Morogoro Tanzania started a residential primary school for hearing impaired children at its subcentre at Mvomero in 2014 with the help of funds raised by Friends of Amani Tanzania. This residential school is one of only two in the whole of Tanzania catering for children with hearing impairments. In 2017 the School was registered by the Government but to date the Government is still not paying the salaries of the teachers. Last year the school achieved some of the best examination results in the primary sector in the Mvomero District.

In an area of poverty and where incidences of disability are high, parents often cant manage to pay the fees for their children. It is always an up-hill struggle for Amani to keep the school going and yet the demand for it is ever increasing. Children in Tanzania attend primary school for seven years; the Mvomero Special School now caters for the first six years and from January the start of the new school year it will have classes for all seven years. However, the immediate challenge is to provide sufficient and suitable girls dormitory accommodation. Without this, the School may be forced by the Government to close.

To convert the existing staff/visitor hostel and dormitory building to a dormitory and staff house will cost £1,600. This will be adequate to avert the crisis. However, there will then be nowhere for other Amani staff , volunteers and visitors - so vital to assisting Amani - to stay. To construct a small two room hostel will require an additional £6,500.