Care for Africa works alongside the rural communities of the Tarime district in Tanzania.
Water, health, education and women’s enterprise, built and run by the people who live there.
Care for Africa works in four key areas across the rural communities of Tarime, Tanzania: water, health, education and women’s enterprise.
A water bore makes farming possible. Farming feeds the women’s enterprises. The enterprises supply the schools. Children who are fed, healthy and have clean water stay in school. Twenty years of working this way has taught us that you cannot fix one part of a community’s cycle of poverty in isolation.
Clean drinking water now reaches 29,000 people. Without water you cannot grow food, stay healthy or stay in school. Everything else starts here.
Australian specialists work alongside Tanzanian health professionals, treating children who would otherwise go without care. Ghati is now a qualified tailor. Raphael is walking.
Kebhosere began with a handful of students and now teaches 125. Every classroom is built, every desk finished, and a sanitation block is under construction.
Eighty two women across four centres make the soap, sanitary kits and uniforms used in the schools we work in, and grow the maize that feeds them.
Diana Butler OAM founded Care for Africa in 2006. Twenty years on she is still travelling to Tarime, still sitting down with the women’s groups, the head teachers and the district health officers, and still asking the same question before anything gets built: what do you actually need?
It is why the bores go where the community says they should go, why the women’s centres are run by the women themselves, and why a finished school is handed to the Tanzanian government rather than held onto.
Between trips, Diana works as an After Hours Nurse Manager at Launceston General Hospital.
"It is the voice of the people and the ear that listens which enables change."
A hungry child does not learn. More often, a hungry child does not come to school at all.
Every school day, 6,500 children across nine schools in Tarime sit down to a cup of maize porridge before class. The maize is grown and milled by the women’s enterprise groups in their own villages, which means the money stays in the district and the supply does not depend on a shipment arriving.
That is 8.8 million breakfasts, and schools across Tarime are still asking to be included.
St Magreth School, Remagwe Water Bore
Surubu Women’s Centre
Medicines for Rural School Clinics
& Soap-making program.
Bisarwi Women’s Group & Sombanyasoko Water Bore
Every bore drilled, every classroom finished, every dollar spent. Our impact report is the full account of what your support built this year, written for the people who made it possible.
Awarded by the Australia-Africa Minerals and Energy Group to a not-for-profit working in Africa. Independent recognition of twenty years in one district.
Charity donations of $2 or more to Care for Africa are tax-deductible in Australia.
