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.

In Tanzania:

• Denise Mabire is now out in Kagera to work with the Tumaini Team until 13th July…her 30 years of social-work experience in Guernsey enables her to work with the team and plan with them the work for the year ahead.
• Georgina Workman, a final year medic, will be joining Denise for the month of June, to complete her elective project at Murgwanza Hospital.
• Trevor Jones is joining them at the end of June to supervise work on the office and help with the fieldwork.

In Guernsey:

• The 40th World Aid Walk in May, when we joined with Oxfam, Action Aid, Christian Aid and Save the Children Fund, will have raised a good contribution to our secondary school budget for 2011. See www.worldaidwalk.org.gg
  Secondary schooling costs £35 per year…next year we expect to send in excess of 6000 students, which will cost £210,000!
• The Bubblegum Bangers Rally have adopted Tumaini to benefit from their madcap adventures in Europe this Summer – see www.Bubblegumbangers.org …they plan to raise in excess of £35,000 for the orphans..that would send 1000 orphans to secondary school in 2011…which is wonderful.

In the UK:

• We’re waiting for Tumaini to be registered as a UK charity.

In the US:

• Tumaini is now a  fully registered charity…running out of Naples, Florida – the very dynamic Board, headed by Doug and Lis are doing a fantastic job at getting the situation facing the orphans of Kagera out to the people in the US. tumainifundusa.org

In New Zealand:

• Dave and Linda Martin are running Tumaini NZ from Prebbleton and we are so grateful for the prayers and support from New Zealand.

Please could you pray for all these people working for the orphans of Kagera – 200,000 orphans is a daunting number of children to seek to support, but God knows them all by name already and cares about what happens to them.
We are looking for a miracle, and Jesus is the Lord of miracles and of Tumaini – please pray.

If you can help us, please visit our donation page on appeal.gg.

Thank you

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