Lemara, Arusha, Tanzania

LFT donors it costs $5.50/ GB£ 3.50 to feed an orphan for a month

A registered orphanage located just outside Arusha town, houses 48 orphans.  8 more children stay as day children at the centre, and go back to their grandparents at night.

Total number of Orphans: 48. This is made up of 27 girls and 21 boys. All are aged between 4 to 19.

9 Orphans attend High School whereas 31 attend Primary and the Balance 8 attend Nursery school.

This centre is run by a group of ladies dedicated to improve the life of the less fortunate.  All children attend secular schools during the day, and have an additional facility of attending Quran classes, in the evening.

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time“ Thomas Edisson

Project Achievements and Realized Progress.

Case Background

Randa Tohmaz is the fourth child in Ali Tohmaz’s family. The table below lists all family members:

Did you know…

That vast parts of Eastern Africa are in the grip of one of the worst drought the regions has seen. The drought has affected parts of Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Estimates of those affected range from 25 to 32 million people.

One of the country’s worst affected by the drought is Kenya where some 3.8 million people, a tenth of the population, need emergency aid. In certain regions food prices have spiralled to five times the average. Malnutrition is now above emergency levels in some areas and hundreds of thousands of valuable cattle are dying.  This affects the some victims are surviving on two litres of water a day in some places. The average American uses 550 litres of water per day.

The conditions have never been so harsh or so inhospitable, and the victims are calling for your help to survive.

Afghanistan is a land-locked and mountainous country with extreme weathers of very cold winters and very hot summers. Although the country suffers from severe droughts, agriculture is the main industry in Afghanistan with approximately 80% of the population depending on agriculture for their livelihood.

Numerous conflicts, droughts, avalanches and deforestation have led to the degradation of the land and have greatly reduced the size of arable land in the country to about 12% from which only a half is being cultivated mainly a result of a lack of usable water supply.

With little rainfall, the farmers usually rely on the melting snow which gathers during the winter months to replenish the ground water, for their irrigation and domestic needs. However over the last seven years there has not been sufficient snow fall and coupled with little rainfall has resulted in severe shortage of water for farming and domestic use.