Care for Africa – Integrated Community Development in Rural Tarime, Tanzania: Nominee for the Change-Maker Award for a Not-For-Profit or Charity Organisation, 2025 Africa Award
By Sarah Siva | 26 August 2025
About the Nominee & their Nomination
- The Care for Africa Foundation is an Australian NGO operating since 2006 in nine rural communities in Tanzania’s Tarime district. Its focus is on water, health, education, and women’s social enterprise. By building local capacity and sharing skills, the organisation empowers communities to become self-sufficient.
- Impact is measured through a structured monitoring and evaluation model combining surveys, conversations, and community discussions. In water, Care for Africa has installed 22 bores serving about 24,000 people, reducing waterborne disease and boosting school attendance by 68%. In health, it has built sanitation blocks in schools, supplied soap, and distributed menstrual kits, improving both health and education outcomes. In education, the school breakfast program has served over 5.8 million meals since 2016, tackling malnutrition and absenteeism, while pass rates for final-year exams have risen from 46% to 86%. A new school has been built for 750 families in Kebhosere. In women’s enterprise, four women’s centres and a shopfront now support flourishing small businesses producing soap, uniforms, and other goods—generating income, raising living standards, and strengthening women’s roles in the community.
- The organisation has capacity to partner with mining and energy companies in Tanzania to scale its programs, particularly those committed to ESG principles, community-driven approaches, and collaboration with government. Potential collaborations could include financial and in-kind contributions, technical expertise (especially in water and education infrastructure), and leveraging corporate networks to extend reach and impact.
Access to water remains one of the biggest issues affecting people in Tanzania.
Education is one of the four pillars of Care for Africa’s sustainable development model.
Some women in the communities have been helped to set up sewing businesses.