This house, situated at the outskirts of Arusha, takes care of about 50 (mostly glue addicted) streetchildren. In this house they try to kick their habit, send them to school and re establish the family relationship. The house is run by many volunteers, headed by Mr Panga of the local Arusha county. In 2005 our foundation, in conjunction with a Danish organisation, funded two buildings that are in use as dining and sleeping facilities.

There is an ongoing need for funding for maintenance, housekeeping, food and education. Also for these costs we donate funds on a regular basis.

Already 2 of the oldest children attend the Meru Peak secondary school due to our donations.

The Dutch medical doctor's couple Olga and Piet de Haas run this new child nursery in the Rombo district, east of the Kilimanjaro. Besides the nursery there is need for animal stock to supply milk, eggs and meat.

This project is founded by Mr. Michael Shirima,Tanzanian, who wanted to give back something to his place of birth and the centre is called after his father.

Our foundation donates live stock (chicken, cows etc) to this great initiative.

This is the school in which many of the Kikatiti Happy Watoto Home children are educated. SVVT has donated new classrooms, books and furniture. The ratio book per child has dropped from 1:10 to 1:2. The schoolresults of the children are among the highest in the region, which is a great achievement!

Due to the continuing expansion of the school there is a need for an additional two classrooms and more books. In cooperation with the local government and the parents, SVVT is again supporting this initiative. We also we support the construction of a separate classroom for the education os physically disabled children.

Mother Angela´s AC Daycare Centre is providing daycare for 20 young children. There is a funding need to extend the orphanage for ten more children. Whenever tourists come to visit and donate to the daycare center, SVVT has doubled (our so-called double Dutch) the amount. So far Tsh 2.2 million has been donated and double dutched by SVVT! In total the daycare has raised Tsh 4.4 million of the TSh 7 million that is needed.

By our support of the water project in Imbasseni we came in contact with this school. The school looks disciplined and is headed by an active headmaster.

During our first meeting we promised books and later a need for extending the school was expressed by the headmaster. As a conjunction with the government and the parents, our foundation and Noud van Hout´s Watoto Foundation promised additional funding for this additional room for the school.

These four schools are located in Masai land between Arusha and KIA International Airport. The isolated villages are based in a poor area where a continous 'dust wind' blows.

All schools urgently needed new or the finishing of partly built classrooms, books and desks. Due to a close cooperation between the local villagers, which provided for the stones and sand to built the foundation, the local government that occasionally (Tanzanian style) provided funding and some dedicated sponsors, SVVT was able to achieve substantial improvements in 2008.

This village of Chief Ole Kuney is situated in the heart of Masaai land (Ole is also the airport doctor at Kilimanjaro Airport and a close friend of Jan Willem ter Braak).

Thanks to the financial support of 'Stichting Maagdenhuis'in the Netherlands, SVVT was able to renovate and expand the primary school at Kambi Ya Choka in 2006. Two houses for teachers where also built, a necessity due to the very remote location of this village to attract teachers.

For the second phase of this project two more classrooms and two additional teacher houses are needed. On the grounds SVVT shall also plant several trees that will provide for shade in this very hot area.

Some of the most talented children at the Kilimanjaro Primary School could not attend secondary school due to financial constraints. Via a donation of the Ruigrok Foundation in Haarlem (the Netherlands) SVVT was able to send 20 of these children to secondary school in 2007. Chief Ole Kuney (see also Kami Ya Choka project) helped selecting the best students.

This school in the Karatu district is supported by an initiative of the 10 year old Niels Potma. Niels collected money at his school in the Netherland after he visited Tanzania. SVVT made an additional donation so that one class room could be renovated.

There is a need for renovation of three additional classroom, inventory and books. Unfortunately, during our last two visits the school looked undisciplined and made a bad impression. We have informed the school board that we will withdraw any more funding if the school does not show any improvements during a next visit.

Bob Schuma, boardmember of Kikatiti Happy Watoto Home has introduced this project to SVVT. This is a vocational school in Bob's place of birth - Machame - and is linked to a local church/parish. The school lack sufficient classrooms and education materials.Girls are being thaught sewing and boys are trained in welding.

The first plans for expansion were turned down by SVVT and a new two-phase plan are being prepared. Depending on this new plan SVVT will decide on it's participation in the needed funding.

This group, via Bob Schuma and his wife Norah, needs money for housing and schoolfees for 5 children

Mama Nora was running a kindergarten for children in her neighbourhood. English, math and reading is being thaught here for the children and meanwhile an annex for orphans is realized. This annex includes a solarsystem for lighting and a waterpump. Some volunteers that occasionally work here also collect money to support this project. Our foundation also pays the salaries of the teacher and the cook as well part of the costs of Mama Norah and of the youngest orphans that are being placed here via our own orphanage Kikatiti Watoto Home

This school was visited by SVVT in 2006 in presence of the village chairman. During this visit the school asked funds for two new classrooms, inventory and additional books to improve the book per child ratio (1:8). The school appeared quite messy and in some classrooms old schoolseats were piled like garbage in the classrooms.

Unfortunately SVVT did not see any improvement and after consultation with the government SVVT learned that expansion of the school was no priority. SVVT therefore only committed to donate books.

This school in Maasai land was built in 2005 and funded with 25 million Tsh by the government. There remained a financial need for four additional classrooms, books and inventory. Meanwhile the parents of the children raised another 25 million Tsh. Based on these facts SVVT has participated in this project.

Unlike the name of this center there is no connection to the Jewish religion. This center for homeless and roughly 50 orphans is well run by Mr Golden Mgonzo and is similar to KikatitHappyWatotoHome. The boardmember of the SVVT foundation visit this center regularly and our support varries from the supply of sheets, tables and chairs to watersupply for showers or buying cows for milk.

This primary and secondary school is run by a very enthusiastic former dean of the Univeristy of Arusha, Joseph Maganga. Since 2005 this school is supported by SVVT. Both English and Swahili education is offered in these schools. SVVT pay the schoolfees of 40 orphans from the Good Hope Orphanage. This orphanage does not meet the SVVT standards, but by paying the schoolfees for these orphans, SVVT can ensure that these children get proper education.

Joseph has made a five-years plan for his school, which SVVT supports partly through donations and mostly with loans that need to be paid back in three years time.

This primary school in Samaria (Maasai land) looked terribly run down at the beginning of 2007. 120 chilren were cramped in one (!) classroom and there was an urgent need for completion of that classroom and the construction of one additional classroom. The villagers were absolutely lacking the funds for these improvements, but the local government were committing aditional support. Based on this and the fact that the villagers had completed the foundation of the annex themselves, SVVT decided to fund the completion and the improvements. SVVT also helped building a collector for rain water to ensure a base water supply during the dry season.

This primary school was visited in October 2006 for the first time and asked for books and toilets. SVVT proposed the deal that for every amount that the parents donated for building toilets, SVVT would double that amount for funding school books. After consultation with the government and the parents, actual money was collected and SVVT committed to double the amount so that the school could be expanded with three additional classrooms.

Olga and Piet de Haas (see also Cornell Ngaleku) have pointed us at this project.

Father Gebra tries to send the young children in the village of Usseri to school but there is only one run down wooden building and the rest of the activities takes place behind the local church. There is an urgent need for facilities for education of about 100 children. Funds are needed for three classrooms and water supply and the local villagers are too poor for any own funds. Therefore our foundation decided to finance this project that will be supervised by Olga and Piet.