What's New at Amani
- Friends of Amani Canada fundraiser
- Amani to be supported by the Listen Campaign
- Amani's Core Values
- The Amani children have a new home!
- Amani: Songs of Peace for the Children of Kilimanjaro
- Duke University Magazine Article
- Independent Weekly Article (Triangle Area, North Carolina, USA)
- Meet Godbless
- New education initiative
- Plan your own "Kilimanjaro Climb for Kids"
- Western Daily Press Article
Friends of Amani Canada fundraiser
Jennifer Roberts, from Friends of Amani Canada, is selling SIGG Swiss Engineered Water Bottles to raise funds for the Amani children. These can be purchased directly from Jennifer and are being made available through schools, offices, Yoga Studios and Fitness facilities where proceeds will go to Amani Children's Home. For more information contact jenroberts@sympatico.ca.
Why buy a Sigg? North Americans throw away nearly 30 million plastic water bottles everyday, creating a massive carbon footprint and increased exposure to toxins from the plastic. Sigg Bottles have a water based organic lining that is healthy for you and the environment. Buying a Sigg helps Amani children by providing funds as well as reducing the impact of global warming acutely felt by increased drought in Tanzania.
Amani to be supported by the Listen Campaign
Amani's Core Values
At a recent organizational development seminar, the Amani Team decided upon ten core values that will guide Amani in all future decision making. To read Amani's Core Values, click here.
The Amani Children have a new home!
After years of hope and anticipation, the Amani children have a new home! The kids slept their first night in the new Amani Children's Home on April 28th, 2007. To learn more about how you can continue supporting the Amani children, or to see pictures of the move, click here.
Amani: Songs of Peace for the Children of Kilimanjaro
As some of you who have visited us know, the Amani children are a very talented bunch! They love singing, playing the drums, and dancing, and now there is a professionally mixed CD of the Amani kids. Ben Vaughn, a very generous (and talented!) Amani supporter, volunteered his time and services to record and produce an Amani CD. In addition to the Amani children, the CD also includes special performances by a group of porters from Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Ombeni Choir. All proceeds will go directly to help the Amani kids. The new CD, "Amani: Songs of Peace for the Children of Kilimanjaro," can be purchased online at http://cdbaby.com/cd/amanichildren.
MP3 downloads are also available on iTunes, Music Is Here, tradebit.com, and payplay.fm.
Thank you for your faithful support, as we work to bring hope, healing, and a future to street kids and orphans in Tanzania.
—Valerie Todd, Director
Plan your own "Kilimanjaro Climb for Kids"
Do you want to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro? Would you like to help AIDS orphans and street-children from Kilimanjaro? What if you could do both at the same time? Click here for more information.
New education initiative
Nearly half of all Tanzanian children do not complete primary school. The main obstacle to attendance is that, unlike in most Western countries, education in Tanzania is not free. The all-inclusive cost of sending a child to primary school in Tanzania (tuition, uniform, supplies, shoes, lunch) is US$150 (£84) per year.
Some children spend their days on the streets simply because their parents cannot afford to send them to school. They are vulnerable and at high-risk of contracting HIV, and without an education, they have little hope for a future without poverty and despair. Thanks to our donors, we are now able to help some of these part-time street-children. In the past four months, Amani has made it possible for 14 children from urban slums to stay off the streets during the day and go to school for the first time.