In association with James Berry & Associates and Gulf For Good, we are doing this challenge in order to raise awareness and funds for the construction of an orphanage just outside Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania.

Please take 2 minutes to read about why we are doing this:

As a response to the desperate plight of Tanzanian children who have been abandoned by parents – either by reason of disease and death, divorce or other incapacity to maintain the family unit, a group of Tanzanian private citizens decided to register a children’s home and to call it, “Larchfield”, to serve as a happy, safe and secure environment for Tanzanian children who have no home. In 2011 Larchfield was legally set up as an NGO [#00NG0/00005420] and acquired land at Mkuranga, (some 40 miles south of Dar-es-Salaam) where there are many disadvantaged children - the lucky ones are fostered with other families. With government and private sector encouragement the Larchfield Project began. The objective is to build and operate a purpose built children’s home