Welcome

Our Mission:

Heart of Africa Foundation empowers girls and women in Tanzania to overcome the challenges of being born female by supporting their educational, emotional, physical, and social well-being.

Our Focus:

Is to invest in the education, care, and economic opportunities for girls and women.

Our Vision:

Heart of Africa Foundation helps young girls and women realize their power, voice, choice, and freedom. Our focus and central way to do this is by investing in the education, care, and economic opportunities for girls and women.

As a result of our work:

  • We are supporting 8 young girls
  • Eight orphans are being educated in a boarding school – some of them at
    high school level, and some college
  • The girls leave HOAF with full schooling, job assistance, and self advocacy skills. Until they find a home of their own, they are welcome to stay at the Sion Center Orphanage.
  • 25 women from the village are being trained in our Creative Community Program (CCP) to be professional seamstresses to create artisan crafts (jewelry, bags, etc) that are sold inTanzania and the United States.

In the future, our work will expand to:

  • A larger, permanent Sion Center Orphanage facility to accommodate 25
  • orphaned and abandoned girls from the area, with the ability to help
  • another 25 as the older generation graduates.
  • A larger workspace for our Creative Community Program to
  • accommodate our current trainees becoming teachers of other Tanzanian
  • women so that they are able to generate a sustainable income and build a
  • better life for themselves and their families.
  • Our Volunteer and Travel Program will grow and offer new customizable
  • travel and volunteer adventures in Tanzania and home.
  • Girls and women being empowered as leaders and ambassadors for their
  • communities by their regular engagement with our large, powerful, and
  • self-sustaining volunteer base.

HOAF Philosophy:

Our primary philosophy holds that:

1. Everyone has the basic right to food, shelter, education, health care and the opportunity to cultivate their talents for the highest common good, regardless of the gender with which they are born.

2. That education and training offers the opportunity to transcend challenges and become valuable contributors to society. Furthermore, we desire that the Maasai girls in Tanzania, never having seen empowerment among women modeled for them, learn that the skills of self-advocacy and empowerment are attainable for each of them.

3. A sense of belonging within a loving family is an essential factor in whether an orphaned child fulfills her potential. Our supportive family consists of the staff at the Sion Center, the women who are working there together, each other, and even our donors and board members across the globe.

Welcome

Our Mission:

Heart of Africa Foundation empowers girls and women in Tanzania to overcome the challenges of being born female by supporting their educational, emotional, physical, and social well-being.

Our Focus:

Is to invest in the education, care, and economic opportunities for girls and women.

Our Vision:

Heart of Africa Foundation helps young girls and women realize their power, voice, choice, and freedom. Our focus and central way to do this is by investing in the education, care, and economic opportunities for girls and women.

As a result of our work:

  • We are supporting 8 young girls
  • Eight orphans are being educated in a boarding school – some of them at
    high school level, and some college
  • The girls leave HOAF with full schooling, job assistance, and self advocacy skills. Until they find a home of their own, they are welcome to stay at the Sion Center Orphanage.
  • 25 women from the village are being trained in our Creative Community Program (CCP) to be professional seamstresses to create artisan crafts (jewelry, bags, etc) that are sold inTanzania and the United States.

In the future, our work will expand to:

  • A larger, permanent Sion Center Orphanage facility to accommodate 25
  • orphaned and abandoned girls from the area, with the ability to help
  • another 25 as the older generation graduates.
  • A larger workspace for our Creative Community Program to
  • accommodate our current trainees becoming teachers of other Tanzanian
  • women so that they are able to generate a sustainable income and build a
  • better life for themselves and their families.
  • Our Volunteer and Travel Program will grow and offer new customizable
  • travel and volunteer adventures in Tanzania and home.
  • Girls and women being empowered as leaders and ambassadors for their
  • communities by their regular engagement with our large, powerful, and
  • self-sustaining volunteer base.

HOAF Philosophy:

Our primary philosophy holds that:

1. Everyone has the basic right to food, shelter, education, health care and the opportunity to cultivate their talents for the highest common good, regardless of the gender with which they are born.

2. That education and training offers the opportunity to transcend challenges and become valuable contributors to society. Furthermore, we desire that the Maasai girls in Tanzania, never having seen empowerment among women modeled for them, learn that the skills of self-advocacy and empowerment are attainable for each of them.

3. A sense of belonging within a loving family is an essential factor in whether an orphaned child fulfills her potential. Our supportive family consists of the staff at the Sion Center, the women who are working there together, each other, and even our donors and board members across the globe.