From Steven, our farm supervisor: “I am really happy to share with you that our hive is colonized by honey bees. We expect to harvest our hive after 3 months.”…
Category: News
Tloma Giving Partners With Community to Start Menstrual Health Program
Tloma Giving has partnered with women in the community to start a program at Tloma Primary School whereby sanitary pads can be made available to young girls going through puberty.…
Tloma Giving Helps Student Get Crutches
Tloma is like many parts of the world where people need medical attention but there are not enough resources to support the community. It was recently brought to our attention…
Tloma Giving Sends Emergency Food
The past season has been quite dry in Tanzania. The “long rains”, which fall from March to May, have come and were pretty substantial. Unfortunately, they will not help the…
Amazon Winds Down Its AmazonSmile Program
You may have heard that Amazon’s charity program AmazonSmile will be shutting down next month. The letter we received reads, in part: “Dear customer, In 2013, we launched AmazonSmile to…
Kilimani Toilet Project
From Treasurer Jim Swallow: By the beginning of the school year in January 2022, the student body of Tloma Primary School had increased to an unmanageable size. Authorities had already…
Introducing the Kilimani Kindergarten
Our treasurer, Jim, reported from Tloma during his visit earlier this year: Kilimani is one of the three sub villages of Tloma village. When preschool and kindergarten classes at Tloma…
New Headmistress Begins at Tloma Primary School
Tloma Primary School has a new headmistress. She sent us this message introducing herself: Hello, my name is Angel Ernest Kimanya the headmistress at Tloma Primary School. It is a…
Working Together to Solve a Real-Life Issue
From Jim Swallow, Tloma Giving Treasurer: I’m sitting in my room here in Tloma, self-isolating after having tested positive for COVID-19 on a self test, and having to delay my…
Letter from Our Treasurer Jim Swallow
Dear Tloma Giving readers, Now that I have been here in Tloma for two weeks and have seen what is really happening on the ground, I would like to give…