Provide a Computer Center to Jambiani Center

As the year is coming to a close, we would like to take some time to reflect back on 2018 and also provide some exciting news for 2019. 

2018 was an amazing year, all thanks to incredible donors like yourself. After Zanzibar’s fantastic staff member, Sarah, and all our Global Giving donors, we were able to purchase a new water tank that hold 5000 liters of water. Before, the increasing demand for water in Zanzibar due to the booming tourism industry & growing hotel numbers is leaving many communities with no access to running water. Families have to walk long distances to gather water from wells, which is neither clean nor safe to drink.  Securing a water pump and water now allows up to 400 people in the community to be able to access this water as well.

Due to Jambiani’s existing center were are able to impact such a large group of students and provide further education and hopefully attain employment. Every year we get to see numerous students graduate from our programs. After they graduate, we check in to see how these classes benefitted their future. During these check-ins, we were still noticing a gap when trying to attain employment – an important skill that they were missing. Computer literacy. This leads us to our 2019 plans and goals. 

2019 is going to be another big fundraising year in order to extend our impact! We will be fundraising to build a computer center to host computer classes. This center will be an expansion of the already existing building with electricity and computers. We are so excited for this stage as we firmly believe this will increase our student’s opportunity for employment, especially when the tourism business is so heavy and relies on being computer literate. 

African Impact Foundation wants to send a HUGE thank you to every single donor who made 2018 such a success! We cannot wait for the years to come. Happy and safe holidays to you all.