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Colman Msafiri is 11 years old. He was in the care of his mentally ill mother. She left him at a bus stop and she told him to wait for her. Colman sat alone, waiting at the bus stop for one week, but she never came back. Now Colman lives at the TunaHAKI Centre for Street Children in the village of Moshi, Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania, where he receives shelter, food, clothing, medical care, education, and instruction in acrobatics and dance. Thanks to TunaHAKI, he now dreams to be a professional artist.
The Centre provides each child with shelter, food, clothing, medical care, and ensures that each child attends school. Since its inception in 1998, the TunaHAKI Centre has rescued over 100 children from the streets of Moshi. With further support, TunaHAKI will be able to rescue more children, and give them the same education, food, shelter, and arts training that have proved so life-saving for Coleman.
Help us give the children a green and permanent home that will make them self-sufficient!
In January of 2006, the TunaHAKI kids were evicted from their home when their landlady suddenly doubled their rent. With the help of U.S. volunteers, they scrambled into a new rental down the road. There is no running water, no proper kitchen, they sleep three to a bed, there is poor drainage in rainy season making it hazardous for the children, and they lack the proper space for a classroom or for acrobatic training.
We are building them a green and permanent home, one with running water and electricity, separate dorms for boys and girls, a vocational centre to train them in job skills, an income-generating garden and farm, and a state of the art training centre/theatre. Please Donate Now to build this shelter and rescue the children. They are waiting.
It's about promoting family reunification and AIDS awareness, to prevent more orphans from landing on the streets. It's about taking the UN Millennium Development Goals and putting them to work on the ground. It's about making TunaHAKI a model for orphan care all over Africa, and all over the world.
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"The TunaHAKI children taught me what’s real in our lives, no matter
where we are from. They had no running water but they gave me what
they had. Never before have I seen smiles as wide."
Sarah Jackson
Great Britain
Colman Msafiri
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