Provide Solar Lantern to Tanzanian School Children

This quarter (May – July 2023) we received a donation of $800 (Eight hundred US Dollar) that enabled us to distribute solar lanterns for FREE to 100 children in Gongali Village. Each solar lantern costs $8 by the time it reaches a child in Gongali Village, which is about 160 km from Arusha Town in Tanzania. We are tempted to THANK YOU ALL by listing your names here! But I understand that this will not be appropriate in this GlobalGiving platform. So please kindly consider this as our formal THANK YOU note for your generous support of $800. If you want to get details of how the distribution was done or the names of children who benefited; or if you want to support another group of children please kindly write to my inbox (hilonga@gmail.com). I will be so happy to give you any details as it may be necessary. Also I encourage all our donors who are visiting Tanzania for any reason - let say for Safari (Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Mount Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar, etc) - to drop-by and visit our beneficiaries face to face! I can’t imagine how all those children will feel when they see your faces – all of you who are supporting this project. Attached, please kindly consider some of the photos showing the beautiful faces of children who received their FREE solar lanterns – you PAID for it!

THANKS ONCE MORE

Askwar Hilonga – Director of TAHUDE Foundation

Links:

• FREE donation of solar lantern to children in Gongali Village

This quarter of the year we were not very lucky with receiving donations from our GlobalGiving friends BUT we continue to extend our gratitude to all who supported us in the past and those who will support us in the future. May GOD continue to bless you all!

Meanwhile, we did not stop supporting the schools (children / pupils) we have been working with. This time we arranged innovation competition at Gongali Primary School in Karatu, Arusha - Tanzania. There were ten groups (they formed companies) who competed. The winning company was promised to get a free tour to Arusha City, to visit Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) and many other attractions in the Arusha City.

As you can witness in this video (https://youtu.be/U8dJKnlYmaQ) the pupils were competitively selected – the winners really work hard!

The picture below shows the winning company of pupils (when they visited NM-AIST University). They were jubilantly received and learnt a lot. Surely, they were inspired and empowered. I am sure they will never forget this experience in their life.

THANKS again and again for supporting our Solar Lantern project since 2013. Through your generous support we have already reached about 3,000 beneficiaries (by 2023) and anticipate to scale-up our IMPACT TO MORE PEOPLE’s LIVES - because we have gained a solid experience, with time.

THANKS ONCE MORE

Askwar Hilonga – Director of TAHUDE Foundation

Links:

• Innovation competition @ Gongali Primary School