Treasures of Africa KIDZ Project
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Treasures of Africa KIDZ is project which provides total education sponsorship for orphans and other vulnerable children in Tanzania. After running an orphanage in Tanzania (Treasures of Africa Children’s Home) for 15 years, Hidden with Christ was able to place all the orphanage residents in Christian families and focus its efforts on providing the highest level of private education available to its students in order to prepare them for future leadership. We currently sponsor students from Pre-school to University. Architectural plans are currently being developed for building of a Secondary School which will be called TREASURES OF AFRICA LEADERSHIP ACADEMY. Consider making a donation to the Treasures of Africa KIDZ Project to help us continue to educate the future leaders of Tanzania. Click Here to Donate.
Stories of How the TOA KIDZ Project is Impacting Lives
A BOY NAMED ALI
It is perfectly natural to wonder if donations given toward good causes ever actually have an impact or change even a single life. This story is for all those who wonder.
A four-year-old boy named Ali, lived in a village in Tanzania, East Africa. He slept in a mud and stick house with a dirt floor. His father was nowhere to be found(later discovered to be in prison) and his mother had just died. He and his 6-year-old sister were left in the care of their 12-year-old aunt, the sister of their dead mother. They were all hungry. But worse than that, they were hopeless as to how they could go on without any way to find food or help.
Someone in the village, aware of their desperate plight, brought their situation to the attention of the authorities. One day a social worker appeared and took them all to an orphanage called Treasures of Africa Children’s Home, in the nearby town of Moshi.
Ali blossomed overnight. The sudden infusion of nutritious food provided without fail three times a day, strengthened his body and encouraged his soul. Astonished by the kindness of strangers who provided clean clothes, a real bed inside a house with concrete walls and floors, made little Ali think he had arrived in heaven. He felt safe for the first time in his young life. His dynamic personality, which had been hidden under a veil of worry, too great for a child to bear, seemed to develop out of nowhere.
It soon became apparent that Ali was very bright. He quickly learned English and became the translator for even older children in the orphanage. Because of the generous donations of supporters of Treasures of Africa, Ali was enrolled in a private school where he was taught in English. The local government school was taught in Kiswahili, and without learning English, a child in Tanzania cannot go on to higher education including High School. And everyone knew this boy was destined to go beyond the average education level in Tanzania, which is grade seven.
The long and steady generosity of donors to the mission of Treasures of Africa to educate and raise up future leaders for Tanzania, took little Ali through one of the best Secondary Schools in the country. Ali (who now goes by the name “Sam”) graduated from Advanced Secondary School and is currently in his third year of Machame Health Training Institute - a medical college on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. He plans to become a Medical Social Worker, working in a hospital where he can help others who have suffered trauma like he and his sister experienced.
Every donation given to the Treasures of Africa KIDZ Project is a seed sown into the life of a child like Ali. It paves the way for change to come and to transform a life situation from tragedy to victory. It may take years to see the fruit, but the fruit does come. Ali is proof of that.