A Growing Need in Sukenya

The new year began with a record number of patients seeking medical services at our dispensary in Sukenya. In January alone, 454 adults and 178 children, along with 31 expecting mothers walked through the doors of the clinic. As we shared in October, in its first months of operation, the dispensary was already treating on average three times the number of patients as similar facilities in the region. As staff continue to provide exceptional care and services and news of the dispensary spreads, patients are choosing our facility over others.

Greeting and treating an average of over 600 patients per month is no easy task. The community has asked us to build additional housing to enable the Tanzanian government to dispatch additional medical staff. This will allow the dispensary to continue to provide exceptional care to the growing number of community members who are traveling greater distances for treatment as the facility's reputation grows.

Plans are underway to build additional housing for Sukenya dispensary staff in 2017. Please support this very important project by making a gift today. 

*Patient numbers for June, July, August, and September of 2015 are an average of the total patients who visited the dispensary over those four months.

Happy Holidays from FoTZC!

We hope you are enjoying the 2015 copy of The Focus! We are proud of what we have accomplished in 2015, and we are particularly excited to get started on our list of upcoming projects. We have raised about half of the money required to build a new boys' dormitory at Soit Sambu Secondary School, and we still plan to finish that project before the rains come in April, so we need your help!

If you have not already made a gift to FoTZC this year, we hope you'll join us in supporting Tanzanian communities. If you'd like to give a gift in honor of a loved one, we will send them a card notifying him or her of your generous gift. Please make a gift today!

The Focus is Here!

This year's copies of The Focus have arrived! They should be arriving in your mailbox over the next week; we hope that you enjoy reading about what we have been up to this year and what we are planning for 2016.

We hope you'll help us by making a gift during this holiday season! We need to raise enough money to build a new boys' dormitory at Soit Sambu Secondary School before the rains come in April. We need $132,000 to do this, and every gift helps! To learn more, please visit our featured project page.

Introducing Haymu Primary School

We were delighted to visit Haymu Primary School in Karatu for the first time this year. A few years ago, Ayalabe Primary School's student body topped 1,000 children, and the community started working to build new, smaller primary schools in the area to help ease the crowding at Ayalabe. Haymu was one of these new schools.

The construction at Haymu is not entirely finished; Standards Five and Six even share a classroom which has no windows, door, or finishing work. The left side of the room has students in Standard Five and one teacher, and the right side of the room has the Standard Six students and another teacher - imagine your children being able to focus and learn in that kind of environment!

Despite the fact that the school still lacks significant amounts of infrastructure, it's doing incredibly well. Haymu students currently rank 9th out of 101 local primary schools. If you take private schools out of the mix, Haymu ranks 3rd!

We are currently vetting the projects Haymu has proposed, and as soon as we have, we will let you know what the first priority will be at the school. We just wanted to take this opportunity to introduce you to Haymu and its students.

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