Latest News – Christmas 2011
We sent 6700 orphans to secondary school in 2011, which, costing £35 each, came to more than £230,000. We expect to send more than 7000 orphans to secondary school in 2012… if you would like to help with that, please send cheques made payable to The Tumaini Fund to The Tumaini Fund, Les Ruettes Farm, St Andrews, Guernsey, GY6 8UQ or give electronically to The Tumaini Fund, Account No. 30805904, Sort code 20-35-32 , Barclays Bank PLC, PO Box 41, Le Narchant House, St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 3BE.
A new on-line giving page will be coming up shortly on the web-site, but we’re sorry that we haven’t this facility at present.
In Tanzania:
- Denise Mabire, our Guernsey social-worker, spent 3 months working with the Tanzanian Team from January 2011
- Guernsey nurses Linda Campbell and Many Davies joined her to teach at the Murgwanza nursing school
- Roger and Diana Arundale joined Denise in February to help with field-work and Roger conducted our annual financial audit
- Pauline Turner, from New Zealand, joined them in March and has now taken over the running of Tumaini in New Zealand.
- Susan Wilson and Hannah Ellis conducted the annual fieldwork audit in June and Trevor Jones went out with them and renovated part of Murgwanza
Primary School with a team of our orphans.
- Bristol Uni Students Olivia Chesney and Natasha White joined the Tumaini staff at the Lweru office on Lake Victoria, to do fieldwork.
- Jodi Fulsom, a nurse from Canada, is our first Canadian Tumaini worker, went out in September and is doing fieldwork until the end of the year.
In Guernsey:
- The 41st World Aid Walk, when we joined Oxfam, Acton Aid, Christian Aid, Save the Children Fund and Hope for a Child again raised a wonderful contribution towards our secondary school work. See www.worldaidwalk.org.gg
- we have done a lot of work speaking at churches and in schools this year and the generosity we have encountered has been staggering. Between now and the end of 2011 we are involved in The Guernsey Community Foundation awards on 9th November, the launch of the band “Resonate”‘s EP at Shiloh Church on 3rd December, have a stall at the Mill Street Market on 8th December and are the hosting charity at the Town Church Christmas Tree Festival on 15th December.
- we hope to send off our 3rd 20 foot container to Tanzania before the end of the year, filled with PCs for the secondary-schools, medical equipment, bikes,
school equipment, text books, paper, pens and pencils and many lovingly made dresses, jumpers and blankets.
In the UK:
We praise God that our registration with the UK Charity Commission has come through. Our name in the UK is Tumaini UK – working for the widows and orphans of Tanzania – to distinguish us from a Tumaini charity which works in Kenya. Reg. No. 1143833
We have joined a group of like-minded “kitchen table” charities – ie small charities run with minimal overheads – called the Forum of African Orphans – this has been a wonderful opportunity for us to learn from the work of the other charities and hopefully to contribute some of our own experiences.
We have been blessed with lots of support and prayer from all across the UK – from Aberdeen to Belfast to Ipswich to St Albans to Bristol.
In the USA:
- the work of Tumaini US has made a huge contribution to the “hope” Tumaini is able to give the orphans in Kagera. Two well-received innovations the American branch has instituted are a fund for bicycles for our secondary-schoolers to use to get to and from school..a journey of sometimes 2-3 hours each way and the distribution of solar lamps to enable some of the students without any access to electricity (almost all of our students are in this position) to have light to do their homework by at night. In this we give special thanks to NCWA in Naples, Florida for 2 wonderful grants towards these projects.
In Canada:
- a vibrant group of Tumaini supporters, starting at St Mary’s Church Nanoose Bay, but now drawing support from many other churches, have been knitting and sewing for the orphans and have recently sent off their first shipment of these lovingly- made clothes to Tanzania.
- we are currently waiting for Canadian charity registration, but have our own web-site on www.tumainicanada.wordpress.com
In New Zealand:
- many thanks to Dave and Linda Martin in Prebbleton for establishing Tumaini in New Zealand and registering it. They had now handed it on to Pauline Turner, in Christchurch. Contact her on tumaini.nz@gmail.com
- Denise Mabire, who spends 3 months each year in social-work with the Tumaini Team in Tanzania, will visit New Zealand at the end of 2011 and plans to do a series of talks on the work of Tumaini, in the months she is there.