Building Hope ‐ Transforming Lives

Songea's Kids
An all-volunteer, nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of orphans and vulnerable children in southern Tanzania.

Sammamish Day of Service: May 3, 2025

Join us for our annual community event—a special day for individuals and families to make a difference in the lives of orphans and vulnerable children in Tanzania.
We will have an activity for all ages: learn about African culture, make First Aid Kits and write letters to the orphans and vulnerable children.
To Join us, Sign up here.
Consider donating from our Amazon Wish List: Donate first aid kit supplies or Donate soccer balls and jump ropes.
We will hand deliver the kits, supplies, soccer balls, jump ropes, and letters to the kids during our annual trip to Tanzania.

Danielle's Lantern Project

Lanterns can bring light to the children we sponsor in rural Tanzania, where many communities lack basic infrastructure. Without light, children struggle to study at home, making it a challenge to succeed in school. We know that education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty, and providing solar-powered lanterns to kids so they can study is one way we can help! Songea's Kids volunteer Danielle, is raising funds to supply each sponsored child of Songea's Kids with a lantern. The cost is $9.50 per lantern and our goal is to purchase 200. We will purchase in Tanzania, so we will also support the local economy. Please consider donating to purchase a lantern and help shape a child's future.

These Kids Need Sponsors

There are many children who need sponsors for their Basic Needs, their Education, or both.

Basic Needs sponsors provide their child food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, supplies. The basics of life so they can grow, play and learn. It gives a solid foundation for education.

With Education, a child has the opportunity for a successful, self-supporting life. Education is the key to getting a trade, a career, a profession. Education is fundamental to lifting children out of poverty.

Many chidlren are successful and self-supporting today because of their sponsor. Please become a sponsor. Click the button below and give one of our children's a future.

Sponsor a Child

Songea's Kids 101: Why, what and how!

This video gives a brief overview of Songea's Kids, an all-volunteer, nonprofit, dedicated to transforming the lives of orphans, vulnerable children and their communities in one of the poorest regions of Tanzania. It shows how we work with local Tanzanian partners to provide these children a safe, nurturing environment with access to education to gain the knowledge, skills and expertise for a bright future.

There are many happy, successful children due to the work of Songea's Kids and our partners. Please watch! We hope you'll help us BUILD HOPE & TRANSFORM LIVES.

Songea's Kids Overview

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Child Sponsorship

Sponsoring a child can save and transform a life! Our sponsorship program focuses on the individual needs of each child. All children receive nurturing homes, nutritious food, clothing, health care and education. Children with special needs receive additional support tailored to their circumstances so they can live their best lives.

Education

We recognize that education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty. Each child in our program is supported from pre-primary through secondary school or vocational training, and several have graduated from college and university. When graduating from our program, each young adult has the knowledge, skills and ability to build a bright future.

Development

Songea's Kids helps build the infrastructure and develop the economic opportunity for the local villages. Improving the community will make a better living environment and provide badly needed income through gainful employment. With our partners, we have drilled wells, installed sanitation systems, built houses, and started enterprises.

Healthcare

Early diagnosis and treatment prevent infant, childhood and maternal deaths from such illnesses as malaria, typhoid, cholera, and HIV/AIDs. The Hope Village Rotary Health Care Center was built through donations to Songea's Kids and provides comprehensive preventive, diagnostic and treatment for 1200 villagers each year. This year we are adding the first dentistry services in the region.

Hope Village

Hope Village is envisioned to become a thriving residential community for orphans and vulnerable children. To date, we have opened the Rotary Health Care Dispensary, the Masonry Vocational Training Classroom, and installed infrastructure for clean water and electricity. This fall, we will open the first residential orphan house that will become a nurturing home to 24 children.

Friends-to-Friends

Songea's Kids arranges a Friends-to-Friends Trip annually to connect sponsors, donors, and interested parties with the children and our Tanzanian partners. Our next trip will be in September 2024. We will soon be taking reservations. In the meantime, click or tap to learn more about the 2023 trip from the video highlights.

Songea's Kids − Caring for Vulnerable Children

Songea's Kids with our partners continues to address the needs of orphans and vulnerable children in the Ruvuma region of southern Tanzania. In addition to the already successful foster care program, we are adding residential housing for orphans and vulnerable children that have no foster care options. We will complete and open one duplex house in late 2023 and begin construction of a second duplex in the second half of 2023. We continue to build the vision of Hope Village. Watch to learn the progress that has been made at Hope Village, and the ways that you can help our children.