For more than 25 years, Perimeter Church has walked alongside UBORA Tanzania. The partnership began as a ministry to widows during the HIV/AIDS crisis. It has grown into a Christ-centered Leadership Formation Pathway that develops Tanzanian children with limited access to opportunity into servant leaders, from education through career launch, equipped to transform Tanzania from within.

Behind every student’s journey are people whose faithful work makes the next step possible. For 18 years, Jacqueline “Jacky” Saria has been one of those people, serving in finance for UBORA Tanzania and investing in the young leaders growing up around her.

Mariam was born with albinism. In parts of Tanzania, harmful beliefs still put people with albinism in danger, and in 2008 Mariam survived an attack that took both of her arms. For years afterward, she lived in fear. Her confidence was gone, along with any belief that she could build something of her own.

Lucy Urassa grew up in Karansi, a small village in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro. When her father died, her family lost its income, and Lucy’s education was suddenly in doubt.

Yona joined UBORA Leadership School in 2007. Today he’s mentoring the next generation of teenagers in his community. "Through my teachers, through my classmates, through mentors, something new started to grow in my heart: that I have to be a leader, in our community, in our families, even at a national level.”