tl;dr: Ten years ago, a 19-year-old traveler began paying school fees for an 11-year-old girl in a rural Tanzanian village; she has since graduated from the University of Dar es Salaam and been accepted into a Master's program in Swahili. The effort has grown into a 501(c)(3), the Tanzania Education Project, which now funds schooling and healthcare for five students from the village, with the author seeking donations to scale beyond his own paycheck.