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During April/May 2012 we will be welcoming guests from Tanzania. They are hoping to fly out from Tanzania on 18th April and fly back on 9th May. Their visit will give us the opportunity to work together to develop the trust's strategy for working in partnership with local churches in Tanzania and will also be an opportunity to present the opportunities and needs to our supporters in the United Kingdom. They have worked in partnership with us for a long time and we are really looking forward to their visit.
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Rev. Samson Simon Mkuyu and his wife Magrath Manka Ndosi
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Rev. Sefania Samson Mkuyu and his wife
Wema Thobias Kihongosi
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If you want to learn more about their visit in April/May - Check the calendar below and scroll accross to April and May. Some dates are still vacant, if you would like them to visit your church. we are asking our visitors to share about the Revival in East Africa, and the power of prayer. Zeph & Wema will also sing some Tanzanian songs & they will share Tanzanian stories. Check the free days here and if you would like to arrange a visit please contact us. |
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We hope that you will enjoy browsing through our website. We started this website in 2010, having shared friendship with Christians in Dodoma, Tanzania since 1990 and started a charity in 2010. We now consider ourselves family. So you are very welcome to join our Tanzanian-English “family”.
Our major project is with Samson Mkuyu’s Tanzanian Assemblies of God Church in Dodoma, and the church plants that they have started. This includes; well drilling for water to support the church and community. In Mwanza the church plant also includes work with orphans.
We have small individual projects: at present two students are going through college and university with funding from our Trust. Recently a nurse and a banker have also been supported through education and are now employed and happy!
Famine relief seems to be an on-going need, as the rains continue to be so poor, year on year, in Tanzania. Whenever we visit Tanzania, or our Tanzanian family are supported to visit us, we also give practical gifts as needed – mobile phones (with chargers!), spectacles, a church computer and printer etc
As a family we are committed to each other. So if you would like to join with us in support, prayer, finance or practical gifts, then feel free. God’s rewards are unique!
Please contact us if you have any questions or comments.
Ruth Chorley
Chairman
Tanzania (UK) Trust
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Our online giving is handled by The Big Give. They offer a low cost donation processing facility for charities in addition to a number of other fund raising opportunities. They also help us keep the administration burden low by handling gift aid claims on our behalf. |
Bucket a day
For many families in Tanzania, water supply is a major issue. for some a journey of half a day is required just to bring home a bucket of water. That one bucket is their sole daily supply and it is often contaminated. You can help raise money to provide wells that ensure a plentiful supply of clean drinking water. A good water supply can also traform the lives of a community, enabling them to grow crops and improve their circumstances, making them more self sufficient.
A great way to raise money is to take part in our "bucket a day" sponsorship scheme. let your friends, family and workmates know that you intend to live for a day on just one bucket of water and tell them why you are doing this.
Now think about what this invoves...
How do you wash your hands? you may need a bowl with a tiny amount of water and use this without changing it throughout the day.
How do you flush the loo? you may choose to use hand washing water or water used to wash food.
Whatever you do you will need to use water very sparingly. It's not a bucket per person in the family. In Tanzania a mother may have to carry water for her entire family for one day, maybe a child will go with her but even so that will not add much to the water available. How will you survive just one day. For them it is every day of their lives, it is just the way it is. By doing this you can help them change this sirtuation forever.
You can use the downloadable sponsorship form below to sign up your sponors. The sponsorship form includes the possibility for the donor to authorise us to claim gift aid from the inland revenue, provided they are a UK taxpayer. This costs the donor nothing, all they have to do is tick the yes box and give their house number and postcode, we will do the rest.
Once you have collected the money you should send it to us together with the sponsorship form as this is our proof of entitlement to claim Gift aid from the UK government.
Giving is important because without your gifts our work would not be able to continue. We realise that these are tough times for many and incomes have been affected by the downturn in the worlds economy. However at times like this the incomes of people in Tanzania are hit even harder and for them this can make the difference between survival and utter catastrophe. We need you to give more than ever and help spread the word about their needs to others. There are a number of ways to give including doing your shopping online.
Mkuyu's visit April/May - Some dates still vacant, if you would like them to visit you church. we are asking our visitors to share about the Revival in East Africa, and the power of prayer. Zeph & Wema will also sing some Tanzanian songs &they will share Tanzanian stories. Check the free days here and if you would like to arrange a visit please contact us.
For the local church and community in UK, to partner with the local church and community in Tanzania, in meeting needs and sharing the love of God.
Tanzania (UK) Trust is a registered charity, number 1133490.
The aims of the charity are
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To encourage the church in partnership in Tanzania and UK.
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For the churches to pray and grow together.
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To share practical needs, promoting physical and mental health and advancing education and understanding.
We are doing this by building relationships with each other with regular trips from UK to Tanzania and Tanzania to UK.
Practically, we are also supporting the church in Tanzania with:
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Relief of poverty by financial support for the church/church plants
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Famine relief
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Drilling wells for water
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Individual support in education
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Specific practical needs being met
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Support in general and health education
The Tanzanian church is supporting us with prayer and we hope to develop the teaching trips that their Pastors have made to teach our churches here in UK.
Ruth Chorley (Chairman)
Ruth is a nurse by profession, currently working with Christian practices in Greater Manchester as a Community Nurse. She is married to Philip and has 3 children, all of whom are now married. The children were largely brought up in East Africa, where Philip and Ruth served with Mission Aviation Fellowship for over 7 years. Ruth lost some of her heart to Tanzania and has continued to visit there regularly since leaving. Philip and the family, Simon and Emily, Naomi and Neil, Sarah and Gareth, have also returned for visits to Dodoma. Ruth considers the Mkuyus and the Church there as part of her extended family and has been nick-named Sungura Mkuyu (this means "rabbit" - a long story!). Her Swahili is just about adequate, usually by the end of her visit someone says "Oh, you're talking like a Tanzanian now!" She has supported God's work there for many years, as she can see the amazing effect of Jesus's love on the whole community. Lives have been turned around, people healed, trust been built and love just seems to gently pour from the Church there. She especially loves the House of Prayer at Samson's church. After joining others in giving financially through various ways for many years, she joined with Alan and Liz in starting the Tanzania (UK) Trust. Ruth enjoys her family, gardening, reading whilst munching chocolate in bed, and being with Jesus's family in Hattersley and Tanzania.
LIZ BENSTEAD (treasurer) ...........
Jane Cripps (Trustee)
Jane is a nurse and former midwife with over 40 years of experience, including hospice care, orthopeadics and practice nursing. She is also the north west regional coordinator for Parish Nursing Ministries in the UK dedicated to placing volunteer nurses to work with churches to reach out with the love of Jesus to those members of the community (migrants, the homeless etc) who find it difficult. for whatever reason to access traditional routes to healthcare. She is married to Peter who is also a trustee of Tanzania (UK) Trust. She enjoys her family, giving a lot of time to her girls, she also loves crafts and enjoys sharing her skills with others.
Peter Cripps (Trustee)
Before retiring on health grounds in 2003 Peter worked for more than 20 years for ATOFINA the chemicals branch of TOTAL the French Oil and Chemicals giant. Peter was an IT manager with responsibility for the UK and Nordic IT operations. Before this Peter worked full time in a pastoral capacity at an Independent Methodist/community church for nearly 10 years and prior to this worked with Operation Mobilisation for 7 years. Peter is also a trustee for Lifecentre Hattersley.
Peter is a member of Hattersley Community Church. He is married with four children, all girls all of whom live away from home and are following studies and careers in Teaching and Science. He is married to Jane who is also a trustee of Tanzania (UK) Trust.
Peter enjoys travel, reading, cooking, a wide range of music and plays the Piano and organ. Peter believes that retirement presents him with a unique opportunity to give more time to God's work in the world around us and so is active in a number of areas of church life and is never without something to do
Alan Smith (Secretary)
Alan is a retired Local Government Officer having worked for Manchester City Council for 41 years. On retirement he attended an intensive course and is now qualified to teach English to adults (Cambridge English Language Teaching of Adults). He and his wife, Jenny, are members of Mottram Evangelical Church, the sending church for Philip and Ruth and their family to Tanzania with Mission Aviation Fellowship. Following a pastoral visit to the Chorley family in 1992 he was so inspired by the work of MAF that he became an Area Representative for MAF for 5 years telling churches in the North West of England about their work. He is now a church representative. Since that first visit to Dodoma in 1992 Alan and Jenny have first hand experience of Uganda in 1995 and further visits to Tanzania in 2002 and 2007. The Tanzania (UK) Trust is an ambitious and exciting project and we covet the prayers and support of those who catch the vision, God is at work. Alan enjoys his family, his wife Jenny and son, Andrew and daughter-in-law Rachel, with grandchildren, Theo (4) and Phebe (1). He also enjoys travel, reading, gardening, playing guitar and table tennis.
Tanzania is a country found in East Africa. The country is rich in natural resources, diverse countryside and coastlines are beautiful, particularly the Ngorongoro Crater and Mount Kilimanjaro. Wildlife is abundant and diverse especially within the Serengeti National Park.
The country has more than 120 ethnic languages and 27 regions. This has led to many different cultures within the same country, The country was colonised by the Germans and then by the British. Tanzania has different religions but the main ones are Christians and Muslims.
Dodoma is a capital City of Tanzania, located at Central of Tanzania. This region has five different ethnic tribes such as Gogo, Rangi, Sandawe, Burunge and Mang`ati. The main tribe is Gogo. This Region is not a big City, the big population of this area is found in rural places. This region has got Christians and Non Christians."
Since it was established in 1964 its population has tripled to 41.3 million.. Tanzania has been home to tens of thousands of refugees from neighbouring Burundi, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo who have been arriving as a result of various crises and conflicts.
Many areas are very dry, and the provision of water is a high priority. Ministry of Water figures suggest that 70% of the rural population, and 30% of urban dwellers have no access to safe water. Women and children may spend over two hours a day collecting water with very much longer journeys in some rural areas. Diarrhoea is said to account for at least 20% of infant deaths.
The health of children and women is threatened by poor nutrition, gender inequalities and female illiteracy. Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world . 80% of the population depend on subsistence level farming and despite high infant mortality, AIDS, and a life expectancy of no more than 50 or so, the population is still on the increase. AIDS has produced a rapidly growing orphan population. Malnutrition and high levels of food poverty is a serious problem for individuals already weakened by HIV. Agriculture has been affected resulting in low productivity and incomes. There is inequality in access to social services, high levels of income poverty and inadequate social protection for the poor. Low income restricts their access to expensive health services.
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