Covid-19 Tumaini Lockdown Fashion Show Friday!

Staying busy at Tumaini with different activities . . . this Friday the children organized and performed their own Tumaini Fashion Show!  Enjoy!  

FORE!! Tumaini's BEDROCK Bogey!

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SAVE THE DATE FOR OUR 8TH ANNUAL TOURNAMENT OF HOPE - SEPT. 20th, 2020!! & we are offering a prize for next year's theme!  

A Message from Mama about Students helping Students!

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A message from Mama:  One of the most beautiful (and unexpected) collateral benefits of presenting in schools, churches, personal residences, etc. in developed parts of the world is how people empathize immediately with the struggles of…

Tea with Tumaini . . .

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Panorama, St. Patty's School, Successes, Sickness & September! I’m home, after three months with our children and have much to share!  To begin, ENORMOUS thanks to everyone who supported us throughout the month of December at…

Happy New Year!

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The Christmas season has been a whirlwind of busy-ness here at Tumaini.  (You can only imagine).  Returning volunteers Mama Sharon (CA) and Dada Erica (AUS) assisted our local social welfare office with their inspections of children's…

A Great Big Tumaini Thank you!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjGtXQ_h6Pk Most recently, we have need to say thank you to our donors, shoppers, and especially Mama Becky Pow, for our incredibly successful Tumaini Facebook Auction of Hope which has raised in excess of…

At Tumaini, how do we do what we do?

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People often ask how we manage Tumaini . . . how, after nine years, we are still able (just) to provide care, support, and love to a continuously growing number of children (currently 94), a handful of seniors and several adults in need?  The…

Happy Easter !!!

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Happy Easter wishes to our global Tumaini family!  This has been another incredible trip for me.  I was able to be with Esther for a corrective surgery on her drop foot.  She is convalescing well and will attend Usa River Rehabilitation Centre…

Just another Friday at Tumaini ...

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I write this sitting in our hospital room, waiting for Esther to come out of surgery. Yesterday Raymond was in Dar (9 hours one way by bus if we’re lucky) to submit his visa application to visit Tine in Belgium, attend a fundraiser, speak…

ISMAEL AND MAMA!

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In my last story, I left off with fifteen month-old Queenie living in jail with her mother who has been sentenced to life in prison for killing her husband in a domestic dispute.  Having formulated a plan of action with prison administration…