Donations

It was a Buddhist monk who once said that "Kindness is the courage to care".

On behalf of all of those people who benefit from your actions we thank for your generocity and we are grateful for your courage.

 If you want to make a ONE OFF PAYMENY OR a STANDING ORDER, then please click on Single donation and standing order form which also has the GIFT AID form included.

 OR

If you prefer you can pay by CREDIT CARD via the Charity Choice website that charges no commission  https://www.charitychoice.co.uk/donation.asp?ref=155539 

OR

 via pay pal, a website that will take your details and pass on your donations to us. (They charge a small commission on this). If you follow either of these routes can you please also submit a gift aid form.

We have over the years developed our own Christmas Cards which we are selling for 50p each. 100% of the profits from these cards goes to our project work.

We also have a wide variety of gift ideas for those people who have everything click here for details

 LTT have "buy a desk" or "buy a milking goat" cards. The money from these cards goes directly towards buying news desks or buying goats. Exactly what it says on the card!

We at the Livingstone Tanzania Trust are extremely grateful for all donations of any size. We understand the huge responsibility that is associated with accepting money from you. Our mission is to spend this money in the best way possible to maximise the benefits to the project concerned.

We understand that people have different interests, can make different levels of donations and want different levels of involvement and recognition. We are happy to adapt to your needs and manage ourselves accordingly. Whilst one off donations are fantastic, monthly donations are easier for us to plan our activities and ensures greater longer term sustainability.

We have identified a number of types of project across the country and within each type there is a huge number desperately in need of help. Accordingly we can offer donors a complete project, which the Livingstone Tanzania Trust will manage on the ground but will have the donors "ownership".

Types of project include:-

• Education for the students (Formal, vocational, health awareness, life skills and agricultural)
• Education for the community (Agricultural, animal husbandry, business managment and accounting, Health awareness 
• Building teachers houses
• Building Dining Halls
• Building Animals sheds in the Farm
• Installing a water pump
• Building classrooms
• Building rainwater harvesting tanks
• Building demonstration cookers, chicken coups, goat sheds
• Building fish ponds
• Sponcoring orphans through secondary schools

We have a relationship with a pilot who bought, restored and now flies a fantastic 1947 Stampe SV4 Biplane. He takes off from a field in Herne Bay in Kent and flies for 40-45 minutes around Canterbury Cathedral, Leeds Castle  and Dover Castle and along the coast. This is a 2-seater plane (that is you and the pilot) with upper and lower wings, flying doesn't get much more exciting than this

We are offering this at a fantastic price of £140 for a 45 minute flight, please contact julian@livingstonetanzaniatrust for details

Charles bought this flight for his partners birthday present. he says " Carolyn, had always wanted to go up in one and it made a terrific and very special surprise Birthday present for her. We arranged a date with Terry the pilot, who couldn't have been nicer, and were exceptionally fortunate to have perfect weather on the day. Carolyn had 45 minutes flying over the Kent countryside, over Canterbury Cathedral and along the coast over Herne Bay and the wind farm. They flew through one of the few clouds in the sky that day at 4500 feet and even looped the loop! Carolyn loved the flight, and the expression on her face when she landed was one of awe and joy. Thank you for helping to make her dream come true and making her Birthday one she will remember for years to come."

This could be you, the offer is still available.

There are some projects that you can help sponsor which give long term sustainability to our work. It helps our planning and proivdes longer term security for the project. These projects can be sponsored in their intirity or just contributed towards. One scheme we are encouraging is for donors to sponsor a project with their friends and divide the cost between them and collectively sponsor the project. 20 friends each paying £3 can make a huge difference to our work.

There are two children at the Waangwaray Primary School who suffer from Epilepsy. The teachers did not know what to do with them when the had a fit and they were ignored. Left frightened the children didn't know what was happening to them.

Since teaming up with the school both children have been to see the doctor and have been reassured about their condition. The teachers and the students have been told about what it is and how to deal with it.

There is a course of drugs that can be taken to control and hopefully eliminate the problem permanently but it means going on a course of drugs for several years. The children come from very poor families and cannot afford the drugs because at 17p a day that represents more than some earn in a day.

Please help us and give £5 per month to cover the cost of the medicine for one child.

One day one of the teachers told me of a boy in the second year of his teaching who was suffering from severe hearing difficulties. I was slightly surprised because most of the learning in Tanzania is rope leaning done through sounds. The boy was brought to meet me and he was clearly very scared of me and what was going on. The teachers tried their best to communicate with him and make him at ease and managed to get information from him. He had taught himself to write and could communicate through reading and writing.

Clearly his needs could not be met at the school and one of the teachers took it upon himself to seek out a special school for children suffering from hearing difficulties. He found one in Arusha that agreed to take him on and cover the majority of his fees but we need to provide him with a uniform and transport costs and some of the school fees. This going to cost £250 a year and we are seeking a sponsor who can assist us.

These are the costs of some of the items needed in the building of classrooms and the farm

There are many other items required to refurbish the classroom, equip a farm and the above represents just a few items. All subject to change

To build buildings from scratch  

If you would like to sponsor the building of a classroom or a teachers house, 

please click here for the most recent quote for a teachers house.

Please click here for the most recent classoom quotes

These quotes are subject to change as the prices fluctuate.

Preparing the foundations

Should you want a long term commitment and want to fund/adopt a project in it's entirety, we would be happy to manage this process for you.

We would start with a community assessment to have base line information for measuring success against. This would also help direct our attention to the needs of that community and the skills available.

We would conduct a full school assessment to understand their needs, manage their expectations and design a way forward

Usually we would design a programme of renovation for the existing classrooms and accommodation, ensure there were enough desk and improve the book per student ratio.

Then subject to needs we would start to focus on further development, income generation potential, community health, community education, teacher training.

The long term commitment would mean that we would expect to work with the school for 7-10 years.