Upendo Face Orphanage

About us

Upendo Face Orphanage is a registered, non-governmental and a charitable organization. Located at Nkoanrua village, area of the city of Arusha, Tanzania, Upendo Face Orphanage is a home meant for orphan's and a day care center for children's around the village. Upendo Face Orphanage Foundation is a full time center that host about 90 children.

We offer more than just food, clothing, and shelter; we offer education and a loving home. Our ultimate aim is for the orphanage to be self-supporting as we begin implementing various alternative livelihood projects and receive renewable support from people around the globe.
The center offers a place called "home", where they can receive the care, food, clothing, education and medical care that every child needs.
There are several preschool classrooms where they receive the first notions of education, such as: Basic English, Swahili (their mother tongue), Mathematics, Nature, Geography and Social-politic history.

Projects:
• Bedroom House & Building: The orphanage is being completed with the dormitory house, almost finished, to be able to offer a safe shelter, take care of them full time, ensuring that children have a roof to sleep in, improve living conditions and give them a real home by allowing them a stable and dignified lifestyle
• Yard: Due to lack of space and because the Upendo Face children family is growing, we plan to build the second phase of the bedroom house. Due to this we have to open another project called Upendo Land for bedrooms
• Feeding: One of our biggest challenges is providing a daily nutritious meal to the children who live in our own orphanage, the Upendo Face Orphanage Foundation. Most of the local diet consists of rice with vegetables called Pilau, beans with corn and vegetables called Makande and Makukuru, also a local basic food called Ugali made of corn flour and water, which usually goes with rice and beans, as well They need daily vegetables like spinach and other local, occasionally local fruit. But our plans are to provide also provide twice a week meat, chicken, essential for a good nutritious nutrition meal, but this will depend on the funds obtained from the donations. (with each sponsor, and with only € 6 per month per child, they can have a traditional local nutritious and balanced daily meal.
• Farm animals & stable: We all know how important nutrition is in a child's life, for this we need to expand the number of cows to provide fresh milk, as well as chickens to provide fresh eggs and meat for children and staff. Some of the chickens will be used as food and the rest of the milk and eggs in excess will be sold to the neighbors of the community. Both initiatives will improve the health of children and staff and generate income for the center. For this purpose a good place is necessary, to be fed and to repair the stables, annually, to be cared for and protected from the weather.
• Education: Computer Office, photocopier-printer; School and educational material for children and teachers; Library study room. Shelving, table, chairs, retro projector, screen.
• Transport: In Upendo Face Orphanage Foundation we intend to be self sufficient and this project, almost finished, will provide the center with a means to obtain resources through its rent to volunteers and local people who need it for maintenance of the center such as: electricity, water and firewood, products of cleaning, salaries of the personnel and to solve any unforeseen event. Every shilling of profit obtained from the transportation project will be used for financing and our monthly costs. With this project we intend to generate employment for staff and / or young men in our community of local neighbors.

Godfrey Kivuyo is the Founder of Upendo Face Orphanage Foundation.

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