All the projects I am involved with, have a primary aim and focus of supporting and educating the children with disabilities at the Amani Centre.

Can I say thank you to everyone who supported last year. We reached our target and had sufficient funds to contribute to the purchase of land adjacent to the Amani Centre, as well as to the costs of building a laboratory for testing Malaria, Typhoid and UTIs. The building was completed during my trip.. Amazing.

I will be travelling to Tanzania again in May.

The Amani Centre has also developed a residential school for students with hearing impairment. By providing a caring environment with small classes, children have been successful at Primary level. So much so that Amani are now in the process of developing the secondary provision. The reality is that without this caring support, the children would have little success in a state school.

This years project:

At the school, all meals are cooked on site by local cooks, who use traditional wood fires using wood from the local environment. In the meantime there is no wood left locally, and the children have been sent further and further afield to collect wood. This is unreliable, unsatisfactory and unsafe for the children.

So what can be done? Purchasing wood, gas cylinders or charcoal is just too expensive. All these cooking methods are ecologically damaging, as well as being too expensive. But using wood is particularly destructive to the immediate environment, as well as to the health of the cooks.

But there is a solution. The solution to this is to build a bio digester. Plans are in place, with an engineer ready to oversee the work. But the school will need £2800 to complete the build. I hope you will be able to help.