Canadians personally donate funds for Education, Housing, Wells, Solar Lamps, Goats, Bicycles, Sewing Machines. Many also make the personal gift of Child Sponsorship, which is $100 per year to support a child.
This past year Rotary Club of Nanaimo Oceanside donated $1,000 towards a fresh water well. Lantzille Rotary donated $1,000 for fabric for school uniforms. BC Retired Teachers Association, RR Smith Memorial Foundation donated $1,000 for Daftari school books. An innovative and generous donation comes from 50% of the rental of a float cabin on the west coast of Vancouver Island, with the tax receipt issued to the renters.
All funds are wire transferred to Kagera to be spent as designated by donors and the TFC board of directors. The latest wire in July 2019 of $12,500 was designated to child sponsorship, Daftari school books, and education. We’re delighted that this brings our total wired donations, since 2013, to $183,200.
With the huge and urgent need to provide all school girls with a Personal Care Kit, these are given priority, and mostly hand carried from Canada to Guernsey and then onward by visitors to Kagera. To date 914 kits have been sent from Canada.
TUMAINI FUND CANADA ANNUAL REPORT SEPTEMBER 2019