Many families in the Kilimanjaro region in Tanzania are facing financial difficulties. By cultivating our land, we want to create new jobs and secure sources of income for the families in Tanzania. Help us so that families can regain their financial and social independence!
Many families in the Kilimanjaro region (Tanzania) are losing their cohesion for various reasons. This creates financial shortages, which leads to many different difficult living situations and increases the number of street children. Difficulties for the families are mainly caused by:
social factors: difficult living situation, unplanned events
mental illnesses: alcohol or drug addiction, mental health problems
All these problems end up in a lack of financial resources to provide basic needs such as food, health care, a safe home, clothing and education. This in turn leads to many children ending up on the streets and in orphanages. This is what we, the Kipepeo Family Foundation, want to prevent. Our main work is to help families regain social and financial independence, enabling parents to raise their children at home.
Our goal is to cultivate our NGO-owned land. By enabling farming as well as animal husbandry on this land, jobs are created and the NGO Kipepeo Family Foundation is financially supported at the same time. This in turn enables us to empower and support more families. The land is located in a fertile area where various vegetables and staple foods can be grown all year round. Due to the nearby river, fields can be irrigated and animals watered not only during the rainy season but also during the rest of the year. The keeping of farm animals such as cows and pigs, their rearing and sale, the use of their meat and milk bring financial income to our NGO, which can be used for other needy people. Cow meat and especially pork are marketable in all seasons and are the most used meat of the people in the Kilimanjaro region. Not least, animal husbandry gives us the opportunity to start a new programme where we can provide an animal (as starting capital) to a family in need without having to use monetary donations. Any first born animal we donate must be returned to us. This creates a circle of support that works independently of finances.
The donated money will be used as seed money for the cultivation of the land. The budget is equivalent to the material and labour for a chicken house, a cow house, a piglet house, a security house and a secure fence to be built around the whole land.
Material: 27'492'000 tsh or 11'789 USD
Salary: 6'500'000 tsh or 2'783 USD
Transport: 500'000 tsh or 214 USD
Total: 34'492'000 tsh or 14'790 USD The surrounding community, our NGO and the needy families throughout the Kilimanjaro region will be empowered and can benefit from the work.
I, Joy Baumann, founded the social organisation Kipepeo Family Foundation together with local man Nixon Simba. Together with our local team, we are passionate about creating a more sustainable future for families in Tanzania. All the staff in my team have experienced in their own childhood what it is like to live on the streets and grow up in an orphanage. I personally believe that no one could understand and solve the problems we face in our work here in Tanzania better than them. "I believe that if my parents had been supported, I would have had a much better childhood. I want to do everything I can to improve the lives of children here in Tanzania and I believe the way to do that is to support their families." Nixon Simba, Founder The Kipepeo Family Foundation is registered in both Switzerland and Tanzania. As we are tax-exempt for Swiss citizens, we are a trustworthy organisation. When you make a donation to us, we guarantee that your donation will be honoured and used only for the project mentioned above. We appreciate your help because we know that you give us the strength to create a better future for families in Tanzania. We thank you very much for your donation! Learn more about the Kipepeo Family Foundation: www.kipepeo-kiwavi.com
With your help we have almost reached our goal to lead the farm of Kipepeo into independence. To realise the total amount of 14'790 CHF, we are still missing 900 CHF.
In the last few days we have planted the first trees on Kipepeo's farm. These will provide shade and privacy for the farm. Families from different village areas around Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, will benefit from our farm. Children living on the streets will get new perspectives and the hope to dream again.
"When connected, each individual becomes strong and in community a dream becomes a reality."
Help us to collect the remaining donations so that the project can be successfully completed at the end of March. With grateful hearts, we look to the future with confidence.
Anonymous
1'000 CHF
Anonymous
100 CHF
Anonymous
100 CHF
Anonymous
1'000 CHF
Anonymous
100 CHF
Melanie Kraus-Hössl
100 CHF
Comune di Lugano
380 CHF
Anonymous
100 CHF
Melanie Kraus-Hössl
100 CHF
Melanie Kraus-Hössl
100 CHF
Noemi Hauser
50 CHF
Kleidertausch
200 CHF
Sonja Zimmermann
100 CHF
Anonymous
40 CHF
Verein Noah
2'500 CHF
Anonymous
200 CHF
Anonymous
295 CHF
Anonymous
404 CHF
Anonymous
100 CHF
Anonymous
50 CHF
Nicolas Kienast
50 CHF
Iwano Baumgartner
365 CHF
Anonymous
35 CHF
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40 CHF
Anonymous
50 CHF
Sina Flück
50 CHF
Anonymous
30 CHF
Rolf Friederich
294 CHF
Karin Schilliger
57 CHF
Anonymous
46 CHF
Yolanda Mattmann
100 CHF
Fernanda Ernst
23 CHF
Anonymous
50 CHF
Janet Schild-Huijs
100 CHF
Karin Schilliger
35 CHF
Karin Schilliger
50 CHF
Karin Schilliger
46 CHF
Jan von Wartburg
1'000 CHF
Anonymous
495 CHF
Anonymous
300 CHF
Eva-Maria Kruijen
200 CHF
Rahel Schallberger
200 CHF
Anonymous
200 CHF
Anonymous
1'000 CHF
Regina Baumann
35 CHF
Brigitte Flück
14 CHF
Brigitte Flück
50 CHF
Natalie Kaufmann
7 CHF
Nicolas Kienast
50 CHF
Alina Schilliger
100 CHF
Melanie Kraus-Hössl
23 CHF
Anonymous
14 CHF
Sophie Kyburz Keppler
279 CHF
Anonymous
50 CHF
Karin Schilliger
100 CHF
Anonymous
100 CHF
Anonymous
190 CHF
David Ledermann
140 CHF
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215 CHF
Eliane Mäder
100 CHF
Rene Mathyer
200 CHF
Anonymous
1'000 CHF
Anonymous
300 CHF
Anonymous
25 CHF
Anonymous
23 CHF
Demos Giudotti
140 CHF
Anonymous
170 CHF
Currently, there are still no project partners if you are interested, please contact us via info@there-for-you.com.
Status of the project
15'160,00 CHF
14'790,00 CHF
We will send the donation receipt (for Switzerland) in January of the following year.
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There are diverse social problems in the Kilimanjaro region in Tanzania. Parents often do not have the economic and personal resources to give their children a dignified life. A lack of education, increasing numbers of street children and drug problems are consequences of this. The Kipepeo Family Foundation offers such families long-term solutions: The families are offered an opportunity to become self-reliant and independent, and to earn a regular salary. With this specific project, even more jobs and thus sources of income for parents can be created through farming and livestock management. The needy families are thus empowered and the parents can enable their children to grow up safely and attend school.
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