Fall 2017 Message from Tumaini Fund USA President Michael Moore: Our annual Tumaini “Colors of Hope” fund raising event, held at the Naples Sailing and Yacht Club on March 18, 2017, was very successful raising more than $146,000 that night. Other donations for the week of Dr. Susan Wilson’s visit to Southwest Florida brought the total to more than $200,000. That money has already allowed 13 new shallow wells to be built this summer in many villages throughout the Kagera regio

Going forward, we will continue to publish stories on the work of the Tumani Fund USA, as well as reports from Tanzania. However, they will be published online under a separate tab within our website. Simply go to tumainifundusa.org/articles to see our most recent newsletters. If you are reading this, you have reached the correct page. This will enable us to keep you updated as events happen, instead of waiting to report on events once or twice a year. To ensure that you rece

As they say in Kagera, “Haba na haba, hujaza kibaba!” or “Little by little, a little becomes a lot!” Dress by dress, Sewing for Hope volunteers continue to clothe these orphans at a rapid pace. In 2017 alone, children in Kagera received 850 pounds of clothing, including over 700 dresses (each accompanied by a new t-shirt and pair of underwear), many sets of boys’ shorts and shirts, and hundreds of knitted hats, sweaters and blankets. The sewing effort has expanded to include

Through September 30, 2017, Tumaini received donations for a total of $222,000. Some $200,000 were generated early in the year as a result of Dr. Susan Wilson and Sarah Jane Allen’s visit to Naples in March and the Colors of Hope Fundraiser at the Naples Sailing & Yacht Club held to coincide with their visit. The COH Event raised $146,000 through ticket sales, live and silent auctions, bidding totaling $82,000 on five Fund a Need items (Bags of Grain, Mosquito Nets, Bicycles,

You can enrich an orphans’s life by donating to the Tumaini Fund’s annual bike campaign. For only $100, the Fund can deliver a bike to a deserving orphan in Tanzania. Without a bike, many must walk miles to the closest school. But a bike enables them to get to school in 1/4 of the time it would take to walk, saving precious daylight hours needed for growing their crops & studying (most homes do not have electricity). A bike is also a great help in the daily chore of transp

The major theme in reports from Tanzania is water. To date, 13 shallow well and irrigation projects in the Ngara, Muleba, Karagwe and Chato areas, which were funded by Tumaini Fund USA donations, are in process or have been completed. This article summarizes Sarah-Jane Allen’s comprehensive report from the field. The wells bring life and hope to the villages in Tanzania. Many of the old water sources are shared by people, cattle and other animals. As a result, they are filthy