Part of the donations given used for Boma Orphanage

On one sunday we paid a visit to an orphanage in Boma. (Boma is a very small town one hour drive away from Moshi.) There are approximately 150 children living in the orphanage. The head of the orphanage has been taking care of the orphans for 24 years - and is actually living in the orphanage as well. As you could guess, it was a very poor looking place. You can see pictures below.

The entrance.









This is what it looks like inside:









This is some sort of an outside kitchen room:












This room is the older boy's bedroom. As you can see, some of the beds are lacking mosquito nets, which is not good in an area where malaria kills a lot of people all the time.












Here you can see their little field where they grow vegetables and stuff for food:










And here are their pigs. Sometimes the head of the orphanage has had to sell some of their livestock in order to be able to pay the kid's school fees.









Here you can see a poor little boy having a nap:









And below you can see the sweetest girl in the worl, who walked straight to me and was just happy to sit on my lap for foreverand didn't even want any of the toys that some of us brought with us. I would've been so happy to take her home with me!












After the visit I knew that this is the place, where I wanted to use 50 % of the money (413 e) I was given from friends and colleagues to be used in Africa for some beneficial purpose. I asked for advice from one of the people working for the organization in Tanzania. We decided to go to the orphanage again to find out what they needed the most at the moment. We got a long list of different things they were lacking, and decided to buy them food and some excercise books for school work.

Here is the list of the things I was able to buy for them:

• 105 kg maize
• 50 kg beans
• 50 kg sugar
• 50 kg rice
• 20 l cooking oil
• 1 cartoon of salt
• 1 cartoon of soap
• a big box of excercise books.
  

All this cost 350 000 tsh, which is a little bit more that 200 e. Below is a picture of the things purchased, although you can't see much from it. (The salt is hiding behind the green sack.)










The orphanage thanks all the people who gave money!