Gertrude Rwakatare

Gertrude Pangalile Rwakatare (31 December 1950 – 20 April 2020) was a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament appointed in 2007 by Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzania's president.[1] She was also the head of Mikocheni B Assemblies of God, a Tanzanian Pentecostal church connected to the Assemblies of God Tanzania.

Career

In the mid-1990s, after Tanzania's transition to a multi-party democracy, Rwakatare founded the St. Mary's school group, multiple schools ranging from nursery to primary schools, high schools (such as St Mary's Mbeya Secondary School) and a teachers' training college.[2] The curriculum, based on the Tanzania National Curriculum, without explicit religious content, takes an international focus with a mission of preparing "children academically and spiritually".[3]

In 1995 Rwakatare founded the Mikocheni B Assemblies of God. Prior to that she worked as a personnel manager for the port authority of Dar es Salaam. She held a Ph.D. in Community Development and Christian Education from the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.[4][5]

Rwakatare established in 2006 the Bright Future Orphanage Centre for about 700 children with funding from Mikocheni B church members and international organizations.[5] The orphanage centre has evolved into a grant giving philanthropic body, the St. Mary's Foundation, focusing on the identifying sustainable local solutions to community malaise.[6]

Rwakatare died in Dar es Salaam on 20 April 2020, aged 69 from COVID-19.[7] She was married.[8][9]

External sources

References
  1. "[Tanzania: Ruling Party Announces Special Seats Nominees=1 Tanzania: Ruling Party Announces Special Seats Nominees]", Tanzania Daily News, Retrieved 2015.
  2. Dilger, Hansjörg (2022). Learning, Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania. Cambridge University Press & International African Institute. ISBN 9781009082808.
  3. "Mary's International Schools Archived 6 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine", Association of International Schools of Africa, Retrieved 2015.
  4. "Member of Parliament CV", United Parliament of Tanzania, Retrieved 2015.
  5. Dilger, Hansjörg (2009). "Doing Better? Religion, the VirtueEthics of Development, and the Fragmentation of Health Politics in Tanzania" (PDF). Africa Today. 56 (1): 98–99. doi:10.2979/AFT.2009.56.1.88. S2CID 143782410. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  6. Dilger, Hansjörg (2013). "Religion and the Formation of an Urban Educational Market: Transnational Reform Processes and Social Inequalities in Christian and Muslim Schooling in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania". Journal of Religion in Africa. Berlin. 43 (4): 451–479. doi:10.1163/15700666-12341265. ISSN 0022-4200.
  7. "Tanzania opposition MPS to boycott Parliament after 3 MPS die".
  8. "Pastor Gertrude Rwakatare 69, is dead". The Citizen. 20 April 2020. Archived from the original on 28 April 2020.
  9. "Tanzania opposition MPs to boycott Parliament after 3 MPs die". Al Jazeera. 2 May 2020. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020.
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