Three-year-old Heavenlight (in the gray sweatshirt) has been best friends with Grace since the day she arrived at Camp Joshua in January 2024. Her mother was only a student herself when she got pregnant with Heaven and was not allowed to finish her studies while pregnant. From the Mara region, which is out past the…

Little four-year-old Fatuma has a similar story to a lot of the children who come to LOHADA. Her parents separated when she was a baby, leaving her mother to raise Fatuma as well as her two brothers on her own. Unfortunately, her mother currently doesn’t have a job and the unemployment rate in Arusha is…

Four-year-old Grace (in the yellow) came to Camp Joshua in October of 2023 and told us her dream was to be a sister. Only three months later, three-year-old Heavenlight showed up at Camp Joshua and they have been inseparable ever since. Visitors will find them clasping hands as they walk to the dining hall together…

This little seven-year-old loves chickens so he couldn’t be happier that Camp Joshua has a chicken coop filled with them right in the middle of its campus. All the kids at LOHADA have to help out with chores including washing clothes and feeding the chickens and cows so little Elia usually opts for filling the…

Farida came to LOHADA in 2019 at the age of seven. Now almost a teenager, she dreams of growing up to be a doctor and is studying hard to make that happen. Her favorite subject is math. One of seven children, her parents divorced when she was young and later her mother went to prison….

At only four years old, Godbless is like most kids when asking what they would like a visitor to Camp Joshua to bring for him – sweets! A little charmer who likes to smile a lot, Godbless entered this world with a lot of disadvantages. His father abandoned his mother when she was only two…

Israel is a born storyteller and loves to tell stories to the other kids at Camp Joshua. Many kids here love being surrounded by so many other children but for Israel, one of eleven children in his family, it’s similar to being at home. With six brothers and four sisters, Israel’s mother has had her…

Aziza came to Camp Joshua from rural Singida when she was only four years old in 2018. Now ten, Aziza loves it when volunteers visit the school so she can practice her English. Her outgoing personality has her always wanting to be wherever the action is happening and she likes nothing more than a good…

Elizabeth has been sponsored! Elizabeth comes from Musoma, a small village on the shores of Lake Victoria. With four brothers and one sister, her family struggled to keep up and twelve-year-old Elizabeth came to LOHADA to get a better education. Luckily, Elizabeth’s love of reading will serve her well and one day she can be…

Like many girls her age, Christina wants to grow up and be a mother. At eight years old she hasn’t had a lot of experience though. Christina’s own mother ran away and her father dropped her off with his mother soon after. Since coming to LOHADA, she has discovered her love for writing and enjoys…

Joseph is Israel’s little brother by one year and one of the four siblings from his family at Camp Joshua. One of eleven children, his dad passed when he was only four years old and his mother struggled to keep the family afloat. Currently, Joseph loves to play football but his dream is to grow…

Little nine-year-old, Abdulrazack, likes to play with all the other kids at Camp Joshua out on the swings and seesaws. It’s one of his favorite things to do. He’s especially excited now that the playground allows a perfect view of the animal shelter that houses the school’s three cows and a new baby since cows…

Ernest has been sponsored! Ernest, who is 7, is learning read and write at the same time he’s learning English. His teacher asks him to draw pictures of things (chairs, cups, tables) and then write their names underneath. Learning English is something LOHADA kids do better than most in Tanzania, partly because they have friends…

Leah has been sponsored by Shelly! Leah, who is 4, says her favorite activity is sleeping. (Who doesn’t love a kid who loves to sleep?) She might love it so much because Leah has a warm, clean bed in the young children’s dorm at Camp Joshua School. She and other preschoolers have the care of…

Eight-year-old Joshua might think that his school is his very own, because it’s named Camp Joshua School. But he also knows the school has been helping kids like him before he was born. A solid education is critical to help children in poverty to succeed. So he is learning English, Swahili, science and health, math…