Tumaini Fund
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AGC Membership No. 266
Guernsey Registered Charity number CH187 *
*The Guernsey Registry is responsible for administration of the registers of charities and non-profit organisations. The number indicated above was originally issued to the charity, but this is not an indication that registration is up to date. Please see www.guernseyregistry.com/charities for a current list of registered organisations
Description Aims and Objectives
The Tumaini Fund is a charity which began in Guernsey in 2003, taking its name from the Swahili word "Tumaini" meaning Hope. It aims to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Biblical imperative to care for widows and orphans.
Its objective is to support the AIDS orphans, the widows and widowers, in the impoverished and remote Kagera Region of North-West Tanzania: promoting their health and education, improving their water-supplies, sanitation and nutrition - including supplying milk to babies whose Mum's have died - and providing our families with mosquito nets to prevent malaria - the biggest killer of children in sub-Saharan Africa. The Tumaini Fund enables orphans to access nursery school and primary school and pays contributions for those who pass to government secondary school, high school, technical colleges and university.
The Tumaini Fund runs vocational training classes for orphans who have dropped from education, usually because of ill-health: 5 for tailoring and 5 for carpentry. Our students are given a 2 year course in their chosen skill and also receive Mathematics and English lessons as they would have received at secondary school and Entrepreneurship classes. When they are sufficiently skilled, our tailoring students make, amongst other items, many primary school uniforms for our younger orphans and our carpentry students make doors and windows for the houses we construct for destitute families. In thanks for their efforts, every tailoring student graduates with the treadle sewing-machine that they had been training on and the carpentry students graduate with a box of tools - these enable the orphans to immediately set up their own small businesses.
The Tumaini Fund is currently supporting 212,000 orphans, with 134,000 in primary schools, 36,000 in secondary and high schools, 230 in our vocational training schools and 444 in university.
The Tumaini Fund has a shallow well project to deliver clean safe water to the villages in which our orphans live. Many children's lives are lost every year through drinking infected water from the contaminated surface water supplies used by most villages. We build 20-30 wells each year which each bring clean water to often 1000 villagers. The wells are looked after by a caretaker, managed by the village's Water Users' Group and water-rates are levied in the villages to pay the caretaker and pay for any repairs needed - AIDS families and the families of the disabled are exempted from paying rates.
The Tumaini Fund also has a house-building project to provide decent safe housing to our families who were homeless or else living in desperately squalid conditions. We build about 20 houses each year and we have recently added water-harvesting to the houses to enable families to have their own water on-site.
Organisation and Management
The Tumaini Fund consists of branches in Guernsey and Alderney, England, Scotland, USA and Canada, organised and managed by committees, and a Tanzanian branch: a team of 50 Social-workers in 5 offices in Kagera, who manage a network of 411 field-workers, working with the children in the villages.
The Guernsey, UK, USA, and Canadian branches transfer their funds directly to their dedicated bank accounts in Muleba, Tanzania in order to provide transparent audit trails for all donations.
The work in Tanzania funded through voluntary giving in Guernsey, is deposited with Barclays Bank in Guernsey and then transferred to the Tumaini Guernsey bank account at the National Microfinance Bank of Tanzania in Muleba Kagera.
Every penny given to Tumaini in Guernsey is sent to Tanzania, with all Guernsey costs paid by Guernsey Tumaini workers. We do receive specified funding for our Container project, sending charitable donations from Guernsey to Kagera and for materials for our knitting and sewing projects in Guernsey.
The expenditure in Kagera is monitored by quarterly bank statements, supported by copies of receipts and an annual professional audit, together with an annual field-work audit by Guernsey Trustees. The Guernsey accounts are annually monitored by an independent accountant's assessment.
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