Our impact

In 2016 I started the orphanage. At that time I was a young man without an official job, but I carried the burden of wanting to help those in need. One morning, while going about my daily activities, I heard the voice of a small child crying in pain. I went closer and found a small child abandoned on the side of the road. The person who left him there was nowhere to be seen.

It broke my heart, and tears came to my eyes. I could not help the child at that moment, but I informed the police. They came, took the child and me to the hospital, and I decided to go with him to carefully follow his treatment and make sure he received good attention. That day I could not continue with my duties. The police informed the social welfare officers, who came to the hospital to take a report. I told them everything and we went to the scene of the investigation, but the person who had abandoned the child was never found. After the check-up, the child was safe.

The little child remained under observation for three days while the police and social welfare officers continued their investigation. On the third day they called me to the office and told me that the person had not been found and that the child needed more care. They contacted another orphanage to find him a place, but they they were not successful. I shared the whole incident with my parents, and they advised me to take the child under the proper procedures and laws, cooperating with the social welfare officers. They accepted my request and handed the child over to me. My parents provided him with care while we worked closely together. We named him Frank. Today he is in high school at King’ori Secondary School.

This matter burdened me deeply, and I saw the importance of opening a small centre to help children like him. I presented the idea to the social welfare officers, who accepted it and started the process of registering the orphanage. My parents’ house was small, so it was not easy to accommodate many children.

In 2017 I received the registration. With the help of various friends I was able to rent a house, which is still where we live as an orphanage. In collaboration with the social welfare officers we received 15 orphans from different parts of the Arusha region.

Each child has his personal information. At the orphanage I have the help of three caregivers, one matron, two cooks and one security guard. The number of orphans in the streets keeps growing, and every day children knock on the gates of the orphanage asking for a place to stay and food. The orphanage is small and cannot accommodate many children; today we care for 15 children, covering all their basic needs: clothes, food, medical treatment, education and more. We thank the people who collaborate with us very closely and have adopted some of the children of the orphanage.

Our vision is to buy land where we will build a larger orphanage and a pre-school, so that orphans who cannot go to school for lack of fees and school supplies can receive a free education.