Ensuring Food Security for Children in Maasailand

by Amani Foundation
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Ensuring Food Security for Children in Maasailand
Ensuring Food Security for Children in Maasailand
Ensuring Food Security for Children in Maasailand
Ensuring Food Security for Children in Maasailand
Ensuring Food Security for Children in Maasailand
Ensuring Food Security for Children in Maasailand
Ensuring Food Security for Children in Maasailand
Ensuring Food Security for Children in Maasailand
Ensuring Food Security for Children in Maasailand
Ensuring Food Security for Children in Maasailand
Ensuring Food Security for Children in Maasailand
Ensuring Food Security for Children in Maasailand
Ensuring Food Security for Children in Maasailand
Ensuring Food Security for Children in Maasailand
Ensuring Food Security for Children in Maasailand

Project Report | Jul 7, 2025
Changing How We Report Awesome Updates

By Katharine Thompson | ED

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!

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Amani Foundation

Location: State College, PA - USA
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Project Leader:
Katharine Thompson
New York , NY United States

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Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.
   

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