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Organized by Kijana Kwanza

EMERGENCY: Homeless Orphans Need You NOW

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Build a new home for homeless orphans, some as young as 6 years old, and provide them with food, clothing, healthcare and schooling.


These innocent orphans, aged between 6 and 12 years, have been brutally evicted from their home, Halima Orphanage in Moshi, Tanzania, and cast on to the street. 

Upon arriving from school, the children found the building bolted shut with all their belongings lying outside on the street. 
The bailiffs had also thrown out the children's copies of the Holy Qur'an, which lay tattered and torn in the mud.

With only the clothes on their back, they stood outside for hours, with no idea where they would sleep or where their next meal would come from.

This is the tragic story of Halima Orphanage, which closed down in April 2023, in the last 10 days of the month of Ramadan. The property in which the children lived had been left to them by Halima Selengia, a successful businesswoman, who founded the orphanage at the end of her life. But following a dispute between her descendants, some of whom wanted the property for their own benefit, the court decided against the orphanage.

When news reached Kijana Kwanza, we took in the children, so they would not end up on the street. Our pick up arrived to salvage what we could.

We managed to salvage the mattresses, which had been recently donated to the orphanage.

…and our older students, gave up their beds for the children, laying out mattresses in the corridors and office for themselves.

Watch our EMERGENCY APPEAL video below:

We need YOUR help to provide for this sudden influx of children, including food, clothing, healthcare and schooling

The children will shortly move into rented premises, whilst we purchase land and start construction of a new Children's Home so that they - and many more orphaned and abandoned children in Moshi, Tanzania, can have a permanent place to live.

Your donation will help pay for the following:

  • $50 will provide food and shelter for a child for 1 month
  • $100 will buy uniform and clothing for a child for 1 year
  • $250 will pay to rent a temporary home for all the children for 1 month
  • $500 will provide education and learning activities for a child for 1 year
  • $1,000 will provide for ALL the needs of a child for 1 year
  • $5,000 will construct and furnish a dormitory for up to 10 children

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Kijana Kwanza2 years ago

New Land




Kijana Kwanza is pleased to announce the purchase of a 1-acre plot in Shabaha District outside of Moshi Town for the construction of a new Children’s Home for the evicted residents of Halima Orphanage.


The new project will provide emergency shelter for orphaned, abandoned and street children, and link to a wider social welfare programme that encourages family reunification and fostering in families as an alternative to long-term institutional care for children under the ages of 12 years.



Kijana Kwanza2 years ago

A New Home

We are pleased to announce that the rescued children of Halima Orphanage have now moved into a new home! 


We are welcome 2 new staff to care for them - Teacher Enock, our Social Welfare Officer, and Mama Ummy, who serves as their cook and support worker, and lives on-site. 


Please continue to support and share our appeal so that we can ensure that the children are looked after for the next 12 months, whilst we focus on constructing a purpose built Children's Home. 


With best wishes from the team at Kijana Kwanza. 


Mohammed S Mamdani

mohammed@kijana-kwanza.org 

WhatsApp: +44 7903 986 022

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