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The Ujamaa Children's Trust was established in December 2010 to raise funds to assist vulnerable children, orphans and their families and in particular to assist with providing funding to the Ujamaa Children's Home.
The Ujamaa Children's Home is based in Arusha in North Tanzania.  For those of you who don’t know where that is it is see Google map.          
Life can be tough in Arusha and in particular for children who have lost one or both parents or whose parents are not well enough to look after them.  The Ujamaa Children’s Home looks after 5 such children.  These children have suffered hardships in their short lives but now live in a safe and loving family environment.
To learn more please take a look at this short video Stories from the Ujamaa Children’s Home

There are currently 5 children living at the Ujamaa Children's home:

• Sabine (14yrs) loves playing netball and is a great goal attack
• Irene (12yrs) lived at the same place as Sabina prior to coming to the Ujamaa Children's Home and they are happy to have remained together. Irene also loves netball and wants to be a lawyer when she grows up
• Kelvin (10yrs) loves to play football and his favourite team is Chelsea and his favourite player is Drogba. When Kelvin grows up he wants to be the president of Tanzania
• Ally & Halima (6yrs - twins) lived in a village with their father before coming to Ujamaa Children's Home. Their mother died of AIDS two years ago and their father has HIV and is too sick to care for them although he still visits often. Unfortunately Ally contracted HIV from his mother while in the womb, but the disease is now under control with the assistance of antiretroviral drugs. Ally also likes to play football and Halima loves to dance

The Ujamaa Children's Home provides the children in its care with a place to call home and a family to share their lives with as well as an all important education. The goal is to over time increase the number of children living at the Ujamaa Children's Home to 10, while still preserving the family atmosphere. It is aiming to provide a long term commitment to bringing up these children and in order to achieve that ongoing financial support from its supporters is required.