ANNA PETRELLA  FROM ITALY

On 30/09/2015 21:36 h, Anna wrote:

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Good morning,
I’d like to know something more about your volunteer programs. I’d like to spend some time in Tanzania volunteering this winter, between December and January and I’d like to know if there is any chance of cooperation.
I’m an organizational psychologist and a professional trainer, I’ve been working in the training field for almost 17 years, both as trainer designer and instructor on soft skills and as consultant to support trainers and instructors improving their training methods.
I’d been working in Zanzibar as Italian volunteer teacher for 5 weeks between last December and January.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Best regards
Anna Petrella
Italy

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Reply from Herman

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Anna Petrella is a wounderfully volunteer has set a program for distance adoption through St Catherine Monastery where she is collecting funds in Italy and Paying for many children who are most vulnerable. She is providing assistance with food, school fees and transportation.

Also we are fundaraising the following project.

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We have launched an online crowdfunding campaign for a School Feeding Program at Kambi ya Nyoka Primary School in Karatu, Tanzania. Working with Global Giving Foundation, using their online platform, we are requesting small donations from as little as 5,10,20,50,100 Euros from as many individuals as possible to meet our fundraising target. https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/primary-school-feeding-program-karatu-tanzania/

Unity in Diversity Foundation (UDF) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-religious and non-political organization. UDF was registered on September 28th 2004. We have a board that comprises 7 people, Executive Director and National Coordinators. We have 10 employed people, each with a vital role in our organization. UDF was established after realization of how unsuccessful the major campaigns against HIV/AIDS and for people with disabilities were in the region. At the beginning, UDF’s main purpose was to give the local community the information and tools they need to help control new HIV infections, especially among young people and women, to protect the rights of people affected and to also supply wheelchairs and other equipment to all people with disabilities.

We are requesting for your support for Kambi ya Nyoka Primary School located very close to St. Catherine Monastery in Karatu. The school complex also includes two classes of Nursery School. In the Primary School there are 250 students, aged between 6 and 14 years, attending the classes from I to VII, while in the Nursery classes there are 100 children between 3 and 5 years. In the Nursery School and the first and second class of the Primary School, the school hours are from 8.00 to 12.00, while in the other classes of the Primary School the school hours are from 8.00 to 12.00 and from 14.00 to 16.00. Many students come from the nearby villages and they have to walk for around 6 to 8 km to get to school, sometimes crossing bush areas inhabited by wild animals.

Unlike most schools in Tanzania, Kambi ya Nyoka School has not been able to provide lunch to the students for the last school year. The students of classes III to VII have therefore been forced to walk back home for lunch and then walk back to school again in the afternoon. Some of them are forced to walk for 24 to 32 km in a day and they are so tired that it is very difficult for them to concentrate in lessons and to learn. Even for the younger children who don’t have lessons in the afternoon it is very hard to walk back home without having eaten anything. The monastery has been providing lunch for the children of the Nursery but it is very difficult for the nuns to keep on assisting them.

In 2000 the Mbulu Diocese (Arusha Region) provided the school with an agricultural land of about 8 acres, adjacent to the school itself in order to cultivate it and thus providing the food for the students. However the previous headmaster, even without legal authority to do so, has rented the land to private farmers. No money has gone to the school, which has been deprived from its food production source and the students haven’t had any meals.

Now the school has a new headmaster. He and the Diocese have already taken legal action to restore the proper use of the agricultural land.

Our project aims both at:
- Dealing with the emergency situation (it happens frequently that students faint, both in school or while travelling to school. Many of them don’t even have a proper breakfast at home);
- Building the conditions for the school to provide autonomously the mid-morning snacks and the lunches for the students.
The project will be developed together by UDF, the Monastery Nuns, and the Bee Keepers Trainers Association

Goals

The main goals are:
ø Short-term: to provide healthy and nutritious food for the students’ mid-morning snacks and lunches
ø Middle-term: to progressively restore the capacity of the school to provide autonomously the lunches for the students, exploiting the agricultural land that the school has at its disposal.

We currently use many methods to raise funds, including charity walks, dinners, writing proposals to international organizations and foundations as well as local companies, banks, parliamentarians. Etc. Fundraising however is getting more and more difficult, so I developed the idea of fundraising through GlobalGiving.

GlobalGiving is the first and largest global crowdfunding community that connects nonprofits, donors, and companies in nearly every country around the world. They are the leading crowdfunding site for non-profits. They are based in the USA and UK. In order to join their site, UDF has passed their strict vetting and due diligence tests. On 12th June 2017, our project will be online for fundraising and I am seeking anyone who can help me by donating through the website of GlobalGiving:
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/primary-school-feeding-program-karatu-tanzania/

The funds received through GlobalGiving will be used to implement the projects in Tanzania. It is the only solution that can assist us here in Africa with limited resources for running our organization. Please I am asking anyone who is interested in my organization to join with me. I would be happy to welcome you to visit Tanzania and see for yourselves our work. So that my dream can become reality I know I can’t work alone, I hope for many small acts of kindness from people reading this letter.

Please join me.

We are ready to receive any amount which you will provide us 5, 10, up to 100 Euros etc.

Anna patrela is still working with St Catherine monastery and  Unity in Diversity Foundation (UDF)