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 The founder, India Howell, has lived and worked in Tanzania since 1998. She has devoted her life to children and the poor, acting on her vision to create a home for orphaned children in a remote village in the northern highlands of Tanzania. We had dinner together at CGI.
India grew up in the north shore of Long Island, New York. She attended Greenvale School in New York; Miss Porter's School in Connecticut; Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland and received her B.A. from University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont. After college she worked at E.W. Howell, Inc. before starting her own construction company. India continued to hone her managerial skills working in publishing and the hotel business in Maine and managing a commercial bakery in Boston.
The funds supports 55 children (ages one month to 14 years) living at the Children’s Village: most of our children lost their parents to Aids or their mothers in childbirth. They manage a local government primary school with the District Education Officials and are providing more teachers, textbooks and supplies as well as a hot lunch program for 450 students. They also provide primary and secondary school sponsorships for 55 students, whose families cannot afford school fees. We also offer free medical care for the children and elderly in our area. In 2008 they initiated a Microfinance Program for the villagers and have provided business management training and loans to 192 clients. To date we have a 100% loan repayment.
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