The Tumaini fund
- restoring hope to the widows and orphans of Tanzania in Jesus’ name
Contact: Dr Susan Wilson, Les Ruettes Farm, St Andrews, Guernsey GY6 8UQ
E-mail: mfukowafumaini@yahoo.co.uk Website www.tumainifund.org.uk
Tumaini, the Swahili word for Hope, is a Guernsey charity alleviating the suffering of AIDs widows and orphans in Kagera, NW Tanzania, where HIV is 28%, 1 in 3 mothers are HIV+, subsistence farmers earn £55 a year and there may be 200,000 orphans in Kagera.
Tanzania is one of the 10 poorest countries in the world. Kagera is one of the poorest regions and AIDs widows and orphans the poorest section of the community. Education is the way out of poverty. Primary schooling is free, but children cannot enroll without school uniforms, books and pencils, pricing education out for many and almost impossible for AIDs orphans.
Tumaini supplies orphans orphans with school uniforms, books and pencils, 2 sets of clothes and a mosquito net. 15,000 orphans are supported by the Tumaini Fund = we aim to supply all 200,000 orphans. We re-built derelict houses, sink bore-holes and support nursery schools.
In 2011, we sending 8,500 children to Secondary School, at £35 per year and are supporting many in tertiary education. Our child sponsorship programme enables people to sponsor a family of AIDs orphans. For £1 per week a Kageran child can be fed, clothed and educated and ‘adoptive’ families pray for their children. The work is inspired by Jesus ... his Holy Spirit has enabled all that has been achieved so far and we are relying on him
Update April 2012
We are now serving 20,000 orphans. We are sending 8000 to secondary school in 2012.
(We actually reduced down the number at secondary school in 2011 to 6,700, as we found that some of the students were already supported by Govt, Catholic or Lutheran funding.)