What you can do

With your support, we can continue to set up new projects and continue to improve the living conditions of the people in northwest Tanzania. It’s important to know that every little bit helps. It is the reason we say: ‘Don’t do nothing, because you can’t do everything’. Because many little bits still make a nice amount. Moreover, small projects are also very valuable.

Of course you can make a donation. We will be very grateful to you for that. You can contact us for this via our contact form. But more often actions are set up at schools and within companies. If you are considering this, you might find the examples and stories below helpful.

Sponsored Walks for Tanzania

For many years we have been organizing sponsored walks for our projects in Tanzania together with schools. We have organized these walking tours together with, among others, the St.Willibrordusschool in Herveld and the Stefanusschool in Tiel. The Jacobus School in Valburg (primary school) and the Over Betuwe College in Elst and the Karel de Grote College in Nijmegen (Secondary Education) have also made efforts for years to support us in Tanzania. Together with these schools we have been able to realize great projects.

Through these sponsored walks (and activities at these schools), we have been able to build quite a number of large water tanks, classrooms and kindergartens. A lot has been done for hospitals, for example to realize our own hospital (Kibombo Health Centre) and support disabled children and children with albinism. These schools have enabled us to offer our help for more than 45 years.

Travel to Tanzania

Over the years (starting from 2008) we organize trips to Tanzania. We do this to create support here in the Netherlands for the MOV and for the FOTAS Herveld foundation. Support is extremely important to always get and keep enough help and support for our activities. Our goal is to turn the travel companions into ambassadors for our working group/foundation and for our work. That is why we always go to Tanzania for about 3 weeks and show the travel companions what the “real” Tanzania looks like. How people really live and what problems there are. We bring the traveling companions into contact with Tanzanians (young people and adults) so that they notice that these young people, these people also have dreams and expectations, just like us. That they also want happiness and good health. They also notice that the circumstances are completely different here and there and they return with the feeling that the small-scale projects of the MOV and the student project of FOTAS really have an impact. That our help really matters.