Back in 2018, we formed a beekeeping team comprised of 13 female and 17 male REAP members that trained with us in the art of sustainable honey harvesting. Maintaining beehives is no simple task. Our 30 keepers learned how to clean, bait and colonize hives as well as practiced making honey filtering systems and harvesting beeswax for candles and creams.

Some of the cases that come through the clinic go well beyond our scope of work. Dedicated to ensuring that every member of our community gets the care that they need, in such cases we assume the roles of medical case manager, supporter and advocate.

For a community plagued by generational poverty, child-care is non-existent, forcing parents to make the difficult decision of leaving their young child home without supervision or providing for their family.

Akiba, the TCF’s Parental Savings Initiative, is designed to help parents afford secondary school and support continued educations.

On October 7th, Standard 7 students across Tanzania will sit for the Primary School Leaving Examination, a culminating, two day exam that tests students on everything they have learned over the past eight years of primary school.

Get to know a few of the children of RVCV

Meet five former Student Teachers who have since come back to serve the community that made their dreams possible

Welcome Richard Daniel!

This spring, in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, TCF has launched a comprehensive, village-wide mental health program aimed at equipping our community with knowledge, language, and tools to recognize and address mental health issues.

The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted lives across the globe. After going into quarantine on March 22nd, thanks to your support, we have been able to keep our children and family safe.

Our we at RVCV are coping as covid-19 begins to surge in Tanzania

Paulina Joseph, thirty years old with two young boys, is a seasonal coffee-picker in the Oldeani community who earns just $1.50 a day. 

Many of you have asked how we are hanging in there as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to upend daily life for us in Tanzania. 

The 2020 school year for the kids at the Rift Valley Children’s Village (RVCV) is off to a great start!  

Six years-ago, when we began our partnership co-managing Oldeani Secondary School (OSS), only 3% of Form 4 students were passing the all-important National Exam. 

Nina Lawrence, 21 years old and never without her knitting needles or sketchpad, dreams of being a pharmacist. Since primary school, science was Nina’s subject of choice. 

In a country where mental health is stigmatized and far from fully understood, we are working to change this conversation with our children. 

Over the past year, we have made countless strides in our work to help a community of 10,000 envision a brighter future. As we begin to look back at 2019, here are just a few of the milestones we have to celebrate.

“What does a typical day in Tanzania look like?” is probably the question I am asked most.