This 14-year-old is like a lot of teenage kids. He likes to joke around, dance, eat hamburgers and ice cream and watch movies. But Phabian also likes to read. If he continues to work hard in class, he will soon be going to secondary school. Being at LOHADA gives him better chance at mastering the…
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Gertruda
Gertruda has been sponsored! Gertruda, 4, is a day schooler who lives in the Unga Limited slum with her brother Godbless and her sister Joyce. Each day, she walks to school, where she enjoys learning and swinging on the playground. Her ideal gift, she says, would be biscuits — the cookie type. Also pretty great…
Mount Horeb Farm
Southeast of Unga Limited slum, off a country road, Mount Horeb Farm is a peaceful 11-acre plot that is a site for sustainable farming and for learning. LOHADA grows multiple crops on the farm, including maize and beans, which help feed the children at Camp Joshua and Camp Moses. They also grow vegetables such as…
Golden Grace Health Center
After being a dispensary since its founding in 2017, Golden Grace has been approved as a Health Center in June 2023 . The increased services that accompanied this advancement in status included opening a Surgical Theatre, which currently can perform 30 types of operations. Also, Golden Grace is now able to keep inpatients for up…
Hope where there was none
According to UNICEF about 71 percent of Tanzanian children live in absolute poverty. More than 73 percent have been physically abused. LOHADA children have suffered the most extreme indigence — theirs are the worst-case scenarios. About a third have been orphaned or lost one parent, often to HIV-AIDS. Others have been abandoned to the streets…