
JoAnn McManus Academy, named in honor of a Massachusetts educator who provided curriculum support when the school first opened, is a primary school located in the outskirts of Dar Es Salaam. The school was founded by Juliet Laizer, a young teacher with a dream of providing a quality education to children in poor neighborhoods where the only other educational option is the overcrowded, underfunded government schools. Juliet and her small staff of teachers left Sherry Fine Academy to start their own school in 2012. They educate more than 50 children in two small rooms.