Tanzania Development Trust Every Pound Raised Is Spent on Projects
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The Britain-Tanzania Society’s Tanzania Development Trust Every pound raised is spent on projects www.TanzDevTrust.org TANZANIA DEVELOPMENT TRUST Registered Charity No 270462 THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT and ACCOUNTS, 2014 Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Tanzania Development Trust for the period 1st July 2013 to 30th June 2014 ‘A REDEMPTION FROM DEATH TO LIFE’ Mzee Waryoba Kebeya writes from Butiama District, Mara Region ”I was born in Matongo, and when I was 19 years of age I went to live in Tabora.... Every time I came to visit my parents, I was greeted by bad news Matongo Dispensary Staff House that someone is dead or is seriously nearing completion sick but there was no hope of curing such bad news without a nearby health facility. I have witnessed with my own eyes young mothers dying delivering babies, very many children under five years dying from pneumonia, malaria and diarrhoea. The act and sign of building a dispensary in Matongo is a redemption from death to life for the poor and marginalized community. We live in this valley because we depend on small produce we get from farming… I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the donor TDT for their generous support to Matongo. The staff house has raised up our hope to have our own dispensary soon. We will be healthier, safer and produce many crops. May God Bless TDT’’ 21st June 2014 Our Tanzania Development Trust— TDT (UK registered charity, No. 270462) was founded 39 years ago. The founders said in the Trust Deed that our aims were “to relieve poverty and sickness among the people of Tanzania by means of the development of education, health and other social services, the improvement of water supplies and other communal facilities and the promotion of self- help activities”. This Annual Report records the Trust’s work primarily in nine of Tanzania’s poorest regions (by per capita income) and shows how the remarkable volunteers who work for TDT in Tanzania and the UK have made the aspirations of 1975 live in 2014 as Mzee Waryoba Kebeya ‘s words above so movingly illustrate. The picture on the front cover is of Bhoke and Ghati, two teenage girls from the Kurya tribe of Mara Region who said “No!” to FGM. 2 Money matters 2013-2014 was the second most successful year in the Trust’s history in terms of the amount we were able to spend on projects in Tanzania—over £144,000. Much of what we have achieved was made possible by the legacy of the late Ian Gibson, who was born in Mtwara and whose early childhood was in Tanzania. All his family had a major connection with East Africa. A Graduate of Cambridge and London, his careers were in journalism and finance. Widely travelled, he had many interests and became a lecturer and a guide to visitors to Britain. His generosity of character is indicated in the legacy he left to benefit the people of the country of his birth. We are proud to honour his memory and we hope that members and readers may also include the Trust in their wills: a living memorial of love for Tanzania. The TDT Staff team in Tanzania Our Local Representatives in Tanzania have continued to provide huge support to our work, helping us to select reliable and honestly run projects and to avoid those that may be dubious. The strength of using their expertise is shown in the fact that in 2013-4 we lost no money in fraudulent projects. During the year, Albert Kahai replaced Adriano Kalisti and we were glad to welcome Linus Buriani as our Local Representative for Lindi and Mtwara Regions. All the Local Representatives are volunteers but TDT pays their expenses. We say a big Asanteni Sana to them for all that they do. You can help TDT by joining BTS. Go to www.btsociety.org or contact Ann Brumfit [email protected] or write to her at 24 Oakfield Drive, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 9NR 3 The TDT Staff team in the UK For three years our Treasurer, Robert Gibson, looked after our website and Facebook pages, and I thank him for doing this so well. However, we are all delighted to have been able to welcome Janet Chapman as our Communications Manager and also a Projects Officer. Since she joined us Janet has brought great skill and professionalism to these tasks and has become a key member of TDT’s management. She has also joined enthusiastically in Fund-Raising and inspired us to take part in Global Giving’s Spring Challenge. We are sorry that David Ackland, Vice-Chair, decided to resign, and we thank him for his service to TDT, especially the visits he made last year to projects. However the Project Officer team has benefited greatly from the arrival of Kevin Curley (left) and Ian Powell (right), both with extensive experience of charities and of Tanzania. Kevin has already travelled to remote parts of Tanzania visiting our projects. We are also very glad to welcome to the team Tichafara Chisaka (left), who was born in Tanzania but moved to Zimbabwe before coming to the UK, and Petronilla Mwakatuma (centre) who comes from Njombe, and is a food scientist working in the UK and Katie Nash (right), who has studied International Development and now works for World Vision. Mwanza Conference for Local Representatives and Vice-Chairs This was a major initiative and very important in developing our work. There is a report on page 25, but I would particularly like to thank Vice-Chair Jonathan Pace for his organisation of the event and his commitment to our work and Vice-Chair, Dan Cook who has since taken responsibility for much of our day to day administration of projects. 4 The Mara Safe House and Vocational Training Centre Project In 2013 the Trust was asked by Mama Rhobi Samwelly, who works for the Anglican Diocese of Mara and is seconded part-time as a volunteer to TDT, if we would raise the money to build a Safe House and Vocational Training Centre for girls escaping or refusing Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting– FGM for short. The total cost for building, furnishing and equipping the whole complex is £65,000. Taking a deep breath, and after consultation, we said ‘Yes’, but with the proviso that we would continue our normal project programme. We knew we would have to build a coalition of funders, but the TDT Committee with the generous help of one of our BTS Vice- Presidents started us off with the first 10%. Janet Chapman suggested that we take part in Global Giving, of which DfID, the Department for International Development, is a sponsor. The initial target was of 50 individuals donating a total of £2,000. However friends and many members responded magnificently and at the time of writing, 253 donors made 262 contributions and a total of £8,767. We came third in the UK and won a prize of £500 for the project. If you were one of the donors, thank you very much. However at least 350 BTS members ignored the appeal– if they had contributed we would have done even better. Janet organised a superb fund-raising evening at the Russet in Hackney which raised over £1000. We also thank major donors including the Ashworth Trust, the Hilden Charitable Fund, the Eleanor Rathbone Trust, an anonymous couple, All Saints Church Sanderstead, Westminster Central Hall, Willie and Gail Fulton and Dr Roz Lee. Dr Ian Dobie raised over £400 with a sponsored Fell Run and there are others far too numerous to list here. A very big thank you to all. More details of the project on pages 16-17 Mama Rhobi’s Visit to the UK Two members have sponsored Mama Rhobi to come to the UK in Autumn 2014. A full programme of her itinerary is included with this report and will be on our website. Come and meet one of Africa’s most remarkable women leaders! AT THE TIME OF WRITING, WE HAVE RAISED £45,000 AND NEED £22,000. 5 TDT manages every year to fund projects well in excess of its core income from BTS members. By working with like-minded Trusts, and more recently, receiving substantial legacy income, total income for TDT projects over the past four years has topped £500,000. We are grateful to every organisation and every individual who has helped us achieve this. In 2013-14 we received a further £15,000 from Christine Lawrence's legacy, and over £60,000 from that of Ian Gibson. 'Trust and Restricted Donations to TDT Projects' included donations from Trusts, other organisations and a vast number of individuals for the Mara Safe House, accounting for around £36,000 out of £60,692. Including the Mara Safe House, 2013-14 was a record year for project income. Non-legacy giving and fund-raising of members has been quite stable, each of the last three years being boosted by a £10,000 donation from the same very generous donors. Spending on TDT projects was £144,356, which includes £26,255 on the first stage of the Mara Safe House. Robert Gibson, Treasurer 6 Page No. REGION PROJECTS FUNDED IN 2013-14 TYPE 8 1 Dodoma St John’s University Higher Education 8 2 Kagera Bulyakashaju Secondary School Solar Power 8 3 Kagera Ikimba Group of Schools (Hilden assisted) Sec. Education 10 4 Kagera Ikimba Tunamkumbuka School computers Sec. Education 10 5 Kagera Kaibanja Science Textbooks Sec. Education 11 6 Kagera Nyagro Chicken Project Agriculture 11 7 Kagera Omurushenye repairs (Donor funded) Prim.