Ramadan tidings: A shot in the arm for two orphanages from Q-Net
What you need to know:
- In Kigamboni, Safina Widow and Child Care Foundation was started in2007 with only 10 children, the orphanage now houses over 50 orphans who live and attend school from the center.
- In Zanzibar, the Takrim Foundation cares for some 92 orphans through a home care system.
Dar es Salaam. As part of celebrating the Holy Month of Ramadan, QNET this week extended a helping hand to two children centers in Tanzania. On the Mainland, the recipient was Safina Widow and Child Care Foundation, an orphanage in Kigamboni, Dar es Salaam and on the Isle, the donations went to the Takrim Foundation.
In Kigamboni, Safina Widow and Child Care Foundation was started in2007 with only 10 children, the orphanage now houses over 50 orphans who live and attend school from the center.
In his comments Athumani Juma who is the Assistant Guardian of the Safina Widow and Child Care Foundation said; “On behalf of the Center, I would like to extend our sincere gratitude. We appreciate and are very thankful for the gifts.”
The caretaker pointed out that the donations cover most all of the basic needs that the children use in their day-to-day lives. He said the donations are timely and will cut their operating costs allowing them to redirect their funds to other needs.
In Zanzibar, the Takrim Foundation cares for some 92 orphans through a home care system. The system operates by having the orphans live in foster parents home so they can grow up in loving caring home environments rather than in a center as their Mainland counterparts do.
“We are more than grateful for this donation. We urge more stakeholders to come and chip in…the children are a communal responsibility we all have a part to play in their wellbeing,” said the Foundation’s Secretary Rahma Salum Hamisi.
“We appreciate the efforts done by QNET, they have set an example for others in the private sector to step in and support the community to care for the need and less privileged,” she added.
Started in 2020 and registered early this year, Takrim Foundation cares for orphans and children who are otherwise living in very harsh conditions or homeless all together. Other than their basic daily needs, the Foundation also service to school the children and ensure they grow up in healthy and supportive environments.
Among other things, QNET donated 10 mattress, 100kg of rice, 100kg of sugar 5 sacks of wheat flour and 10 sacks of maize flour.
Other items included three sacks of charcoal two boxes of Sanitary pads, two dozen underwear, three buckets of food oil, two buckets of powdered milk, two sacks of powdered soap, two boxes of bath soap, two dozen toothpastes, 17 dozen of books, 10 boxes of pens, five boxes of pencil and two rim paper boxes.
