Ensuring Food Security for Children in Maasailand

Thanks to your incredible support, Ensuring Food Security for Children in Maasailand has made powerful, lasting change in the lives of vulnerable families in northern Tanzania. With your help, we’ve tackled hunger not as a one-time crisis—but as a root cause of family separation that demands sustainable, community-driven solutions.

Over the course of this project, we were able to:

• Distribute small livestock (goats, pigs, and poultry) to families in extreme poverty, giving them stable nutrition sources and income-generating assets.

• Replant and expand our organic food gardens, now serving both reintegrated families and caregivers of at-risk children.

• Provide daily meals to children, especially during the high-stress early months of school re-enrollment or family reunification.

• Invest in long-term resilience, including adding solar energy to our community center and securing fencing for off-site farms to prevent crop theft and livestock loss.

Each donation, whether $10 or $10,000, helped a real child eat, learn, and grow in the safety of family—not an institution. And it’s not ending here.

What’s Next?

This project is not closing—but we are streamlining how we receive donations, and you’ll now find our core campaigns unified under a single Families First program banner, still hosted on GlobalGiving and on our website. The food security work continues—woven into our larger effort to stop family separation before it starts.

We’ll continue sharing updates via our quarterly Mailchimp newsletter, where you’ll hear directly from our team, see impact stories from the field, and learn how to keep supporting our mission.

Thank You

Whether you gave a one-time gift, shared our page, or followed our work from afar, you are part of this transformation. We are deeply grateful to stand with you. Together, we’re not just feeding children—we’re keeping families together. Keep in touch!

We believe in building a future where no child goes hungry. In our immediate community, that means feeding the children in our residential care and our pre-school students. That’s why we rolled up our sleeves this season for Shamba Day. Shamba is a Swahili word meaning "farm." This day is a hands-on effort to plant, grow, and harvest the food that will sustain our children throughout the year.

This February, after weeks of preparation, we planted five hectares of maize—an annual and vital step toward food self-sufficiency! It took a village (and 780,000 Tanzanian shillings) to make this happen: hiring local workers, renting a tractor, and feeding our team as they worked.

Now for the exciting part—the maize has sprouted! The climate is changing here, with increasingly erratic rainfall and dry periods affecting other farmers in our area. But we’re monitoring our crops closely, and our recent visit to the farm showed thriving green shoots, standing strong and ready to grow. With enough rain, we expect to harvest over 50 bags of maize (5,000kg) in June.

This wouldn’t be possible without you—our incredible supporters. Your generosity helps us plant seeds of hope, security, and nourishment for the future. We can’t wait to share the harvest with you!

Stay tuned for updates, and thank you for being part of our journey!