Volume 24 Issue 5

Gabriel was an orphan and was fortunate to be able to live with his grandparents near Kilimanjaro Tanzania. He helped his elderly grandparents with the difficult tasks of farming and caring for the livestock. There was not many options to continue his education as the government sponsor school support ends after children complete middle school, usually around the age of 13.

In 2023 – wearing his school uniform, Gabriel was invited to visit the Tanzania Parliament as part of the country’s acknowledgment of the New Dawn Communities – Tanzania’s high scholastic success in 2023.

Gabriel with USA Ministry Team that visited the school campus with some of the school staff in 2023.

As medical student in 2024 in his “scrubs”, Gabriel is at the top of his class with a 4.0 GPA. He sent the following personal message along with the photo above.

“Thank you so much our lovely Father may God also uplift your eyes and give you visions that will be the solution to the problem to many people in Jesus’ name amen.”

~ Gabriel Lazier, New Dawn Kenya Graduate 2024

Because of your support orphan students like Gabriel are given hope and an opportunity to turn their lives into their country’s future Christ-centered leaders.

Together with you, our supporters, we have been able to establish two “Communities”. Each one is built on over 50-acre parcels with school, dormitory, church, administration and farm structurers to provide a safe and welcoming environment for students and indigenous staff.

• • • New Dawn Communities in Kenya and Tanzania have graduated over 600 orphan students since 2009. On average it costs $125.00 per month to provide a secure shelter, feed, cloth and teach the student.
    • 80% of New Dawn graduates qualify to go on to a university. Because of their high GPA-top 10% in their nations, most earn government scholarships.
    • NDC teachers are among the best in their countries, so it’s no surprise other schools try to lure them away with higher wages elsewhere. Prevent this from happening by helping pay their teachers a worthy salary. The annual salary need per teacher is $8000.00

“We New Dawn graduates will continue investing in New Dawn Schools. It is not payback. I want to teach a class and sponsor two orphan students. It is the greatest satisfaction I could ever have.”

~ Boniface Mwangi, New Dawn Kenya Graduate 2010

Volume 24 Issue 4

Dear Family and Friends of New Dawn,

We believe it’s time to let you know of our ongoing financial situation. We are currently $9,000 short of meeting this month’s operational expenses for our Community in Tanzania. This is no surprise to us, because we have consistently had to supplement our budget. There is a small group of very generous and committed individuals who have been making up the shortfall, but this is unsustainable. So today, we turn to you for help. Any support you can give at this time would be greatly appreciated.

We need more generous and committed partners who will help spread out the burden of supporting our 150 orphaned youth, and our 25 staff indigenous staff who care for them.

Would you prayerfully consider forwarding this message to anyone in your contacts list who might be interested in knowing about New Dawn? Consider anyone who would potentially be willing and able to partner with us in any way.

Ask them to watch the video below as an introduction to New Dawn Communities.

We would also be glad to come and share a presentation at your church or small group of how God is using this ministry to totally transform lives. New Dawn gives these precious young people a family to belong to, a home to live in, and instills a renewed hope for a brighter future.

This is pure and undefiled religion before God, to visit widows and orphans in their distress…

James 1:27

We have time and again seen God miraculously provide for His work at New Dawn, and we continue to trust Him to guide and provide. Would you please pray and ask God to reveal how He could use you to help New Dawn mature as one of His divine expressions of His presence on earth?

We sincerely thank you for your partnership. Whether your contribution has been small or large, you have displayed your faith and worship through pure and undefiled religion.

Let’s all keep up the Good Work!
As they say in Swahili, Pomojia Tutashinde, Together We Succeed”

As always, with much affection and appreciation,

Ron Sukut,
Director with the New Dawn Team

Volume 24 Issue 2

The New Dawn Communities Executive Director, Ron Sukut will be going to Uganda and Tanzania for three weeks beginning April 1st.  He will be joined by one of the assistant pastors from Cornerstone Community Church in San Clemente, Winston Wardwell, who directs in the Joshua House discipleship program.

The purpose of this visit is to meet with pastors, missionaries, and New Dawn staff members for renewed relationships. There will be a mixture of training and planning thrown in as well.

A current (and new) development in our mission network is with a church in Sandpoint Idaho – Parkside Church. Ron and Diane have been attending this community church while staying in their home there during the summer and fall months. One of the unique aspects of this church is their emphasis on missions. Parkside Church has had a long-time relationship with missionaries in Uganda and Tanzania, and while having our New Dawn High Schools in Kenya and Tanzania, it seems to be a good match.

In April Parkside is taking a missions team from their church to partner with their current missionaries, and Ron will be joining up with them during the trip. He is planning to travel to Uganda on April 1st, a few days before the Parkside team arrives, in order to meet with a group of pastors for a leaders’ conference.

Ron has made a few previous trips to the area to connect with this group. As a result, they started Primary (Elementary) School, with hopes that New Dawn Communities will establish our next school in their region.

We ask that you would pray with us for God’s will to be done in this regard.

Afterwards, Ron will be going to meet the Parkside Team at the Entebbe Airport upon their arrival, Friday, April 5th. Then Ron and the team will drive from Entebbe along the coast of Lake Victoria, south to Geita, which is near the larger city of Mwanza.

The team is planning to serve, train and evangelize for a week with the local missionaries.

After the team heads back to the US, Ron will travel over to our New Dawn Community in Same, Tanzania for some much-anticipated time together with students and staff. As always, there will likely be a banquet with the Ishinda Village Elders and a few representatives from the local County Commissioner’s office.

Ron hopes to meet up with a few of our alumni and see how things are going since their graduation from New Dawn. He may have some good photos and stories to tell us upon his return, stay tuned . . .

We ask that you prayerfully consider giving a monthly donation of $125.00 to sponsor a new Tanzania student. This monthly amount completely covers all the costs to provide a safe place to live, learn and worship as a New Dawn Community student.

Volume 24 Issue 1

Below is a summary report from our New Dawn Secondary School in Tanzania. The article was writter by Nance Daniel, a journalism class reporter.

“In every new year there are always new things. In this year we are happy that we have received new form one students who are coming from different parts of Tanzania.

Early on January this year, New Dawn Secondary School received the new form one (freshman) students who are coming from various regions of Tanzania. We have received thirty-six (36) form one students. The new form one students have started to enter in the class and they have completed the orientation course.

The new form one students are happy to join New Dawn Secondary School because they were warmly welcomed with the other students, workers and teachers. The students have already received their uniforms, shamba dresses, exercise books and the other basic requirements. They are also thankful and happy to get the new family members at New Dawn Secondary School. As the community, we thank God that we have received our new family members and it is our prayer that they will be a blessing in our community and the World at large.

New Dawn Secondary School Incoming Freshmen

The incoming students have an opportunity for a complete
change of course in life.

Your Generous Donation will make all the difference in their success. Would you consider a monthly or a one-time donation going towards the sponsorship of one or more of the new students?

With a recent generous donation, our laboratory will be fully functional very soon.

Volume 23 Issue 6

The secondary school in Tanzania started a journalism club in 2023 and have begun to send us content from the class. They are really proud of the accomplishments at New Dawn Communities and have listed a few here for you.

We have left the article completely unedited and as written by the student reporter. The entire thing would not be possible without you, our generous supporters.

“In life there are moments of mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair but through God’s love we find that there are many blessings which God has given us in our life”. In this year 2023, we have a reason to thank God of heaven for being good to us and blessing us with many things in our community.”

In every final part of something there is a story to tell. At New Dawn community, the year 2023 was so much good with a lot success. God helped us to achieve many things in many areas such as sports and games, admission of new form one students, the second form four class graduation, the new laboratory building progress, the good examination results from form four and form two, to mention but a few.

New Dawn Secondary School Choir

This year 2023 we also received good results for the form two and form four who sat for the National Examination 2022. All students from both classes passed the examination. For the Form two class our school became number three (03) out of 58 schools in the district and for the form four which it was our first time we became number 10 out 57 schools in the district.

This year 2023 also the form two and form four classes sat for the regional Mock examination which is done by all Kilimanjaro schools so as to prepare students for their national examination.

In the regional Mock examination, we are also happy to inform you that in more than 29,000 and 27,000 students in Kilimanjaro who sat for Regional Mock examination for both form four and form two students respectively, our school New Dawn Communities Tanzania got some students who managed to be among the ten best students in both District wise and Region wise in some subjects.

For the form four class, our fellow student Salome Materu became number 6 in physics and number 9 in Bible Knowledge in the district.

For the form two class we got 7 students who were among the ten best students in the district and region. In Kilimanjaro region top ten students we had one student called Lomaiyan Zephania Mollel who managed to be a third student in English subject in the region.

In the district we had seven students who were among the ten best students in English, Physics, Bible Knowledge, History, Mathematics, Chemistry, subjects. The students are Lomaiyan Zephaniah Mollel, Aloyce Daniel Metusela, Ebenezer Said, Sharon Maeda, Otilia Sixbert, Sophia Peter and Nancy Daniel.

Our school New Dawn had no qualified laboratories for science subjects such as Physics, Chemistry and Biology. The students are still using a mult-purpose laboratory to their practical which is not good for the students to perform well.

The good news is that the construction of New laboratory resumed this year 2023 and it is in a good condition. The plumbers have already fixed the water pipes which will be supplying water in the laboratory. The chamber for collecting dirty water has being prepared and sinks have also been put. The work is exquisite and it will be a blessing for the students especially those who are studying science subjects.

A part of the new laboratory building

In September 2023 the New Dawn Secondary School interviews of finding new form one class of 2024 started. The interviews started first here at our school then followed in other areas of Tanga, Dar es salaam and Moshi. We thank God that it went well and we got 36 who will join form one next year 2024.

This year on 02/12/ 2023 we had a four graduation in our school. This was a second graduation for the second class 0f 2020. The graduation was attended by government’s leaders, board of directors, journalists from different media, parents and other invited guests. We are happy that the event well. The graduated students are now waiting for their results next year 2024.

Finally we would like to say thank you our sponsors and our supporters for the great job you are doing. You are building the future of the children who lost hope and we believe that one day you will see the fruits of children you helped. May God bless you so much.

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Generous Donation
to be matched! Think of it, your giving can have double the impact.

The new Form 1 (freshman) Students are in need of sponsors
Would you consider sponsoring one of the students in full or partially?