Usa River is a town around 23 kilometres in the east of the City of Arusha, the capital of the Arusha Region.It is about a 30 minutes drive from the city,there are a number of organisations owned by foreigners,Usa-river is said to be the fastest growing and a safe and quiet place for settlements

Education

Makumira University College (MUCo) , formerly Lutheran Theological College Makumira, is the oldest campus of Tumaini University, the university of the Evangilical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) established in 1997. We are located in northern Tanzania (East Africa).

Statement of Mission and Rationale of Makumira University College

(1) The Mission of the College is:

(a) to provide educational programs which will be progressively harnessed to focus as best as possible on the economic and social development of the people at all levels;

(b) to engage its faculties and students in studies of higher learning committed to the pursuit of truth through scientific research and inquiries

(c) to promote higher education in its broadest sense, delving into

fact-finding under the guidance of and in obedience to the

Word of God;

(d) to serve the promotion of liberty for all categories of people in society by being alert and well informed on all those important matters commonly associated with the best of University education;

(e)to be sensitive to the pressures which dehumanize society and oppress human kind so as to rescue, elaborate and communicate those elements of national culture which are possible and humanizing while at the same time liberating human capacities, engendering and nurturing good moral values;

(f) to provide the kind of education which will promote freedom from diseases, ignorance and poverty for all people in society. The assurance of freedom includes the removal of hampering influences which tend to block honest research and studies;

(g) to explore, test and analyze new ideas, models and alternative avenues for development and promotion of a viable and just human society;

(h) to realize hopes and meet the expectations of the ELCT by developing resources from which fresh intellectual and spiritual breezes will spring up and spread out far and wide for the renewal of the Church and society as a whole.

The MS-TCDC (Training Centre for Development Cooperation in Eastern and Southern Africa) is located there. http://www.mstcdc.or.tz

The School of St Jude, a charity-funded English medium school for the poorest Tanzanian children, has its second campus in Usa River, off the Momella road up to the Arusha National Park. http://www.schoolofstjude.co.tz

Coordinates: 3°22′S 36°51′E / 3.367°S 36.85°E / -3.367; 36.85