Mission Statement
To build healthier and better-educated communities in north-western Tanzania by equipping individuals caught in the poverty trap of subsistence living, to take charge of, and continue their own development.
Vision
CARE for the world’s poorest,
EDUCATE children more effectively & assist farmers to,
GROW better food and cash crops.
Our immediate needs
STUDENT SPONSORSHIP – The Trust established the Katoke-Lweru Secondary School to meet the great need for secondary education in Tanzania. Through your ongoing support we have educated over a thousand students in the last 11 years. But there are still many children who aren’t able to attend KLSS due to their family and financial circumstances. Would you help us raise funds in order to sponsor these students?
REMOTE LEARNING – The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world in many different ways. Here in Australia it’s meant that most school students have been forced to study from home, this is also the case in Tanzania. However, KLSS students do not have their own school supplies, textbooks, stationery or even computers. Would you help us raise funds in order to equip teachers to support students and provide crucial supplies for these childre
HEALTH LITERACY – A vital component of the Katoke Trust’s ongoing fight against poverty has been our malaria-prevention education program which has seen malaria reduced in local villages from over 60% of people infected per annum to about 10%. The Katoke Trust has been facilitating health education and equipping local villages with personal hygiene products in order to help combat COVID-19 in Tanzania, where hospitals and healthcare are not readily available to all. Would you help us raise funds to support our ongoing malaria-prevention programs, and provide health-care workers and local villagers with the means to combat COVID-19?.
Major Objectives
1. Partnership - Identify needs, through interaction with the local community and their leaders as well as in consultation with government agencies and other institutions.
2. Fundraising - Raise funds to finance projects to address these needs, by direct donations from supporters, by special events and approaches to government or private funding agencies.
3. Recruit and brief suitable volunteers to work in Tanzania.
4. Capacity building - Educate Tanzanians into professions and trades and in specific areas such as management and leadership.
5. Communicate with stakeholders - Communicate effectively about emerging needs and progress on our projects.
Working Together
Long term links with Katoke, which were begun by Australians in the 1920s, have been built upon in current relationships with the local leaders. The Trust is a Christian organisation that provides aid for people irrespective of their race, colour or religion. Since the Trust began, members have made regular self-funded visits twice a year to ensure a flexible approach to aid delivery and close personal supervision of financial and management processes.
The Future
A major part of our work is to develop strong local leadership that will be able to take initiative and ensure sustainability of projects and the wider developmental momentum. In this regard the Katoke Lweru Secondary School is a vital long-term investment for the nurture of local leadership.