Reducing poverty, through relationships, education and  understanding

Child sponsorship can help to break that cycle of poverty - with recent independent studies on child sponsorship showing that on average, sponsor children stay in school 1-1.5 years longer than their non-sponsored peers.
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​To change a child's life and give them a brighter future, please fill out the form below and a Team Vista representative will be in contact with you shortly.

Currently, in Tanzania young women are not given enough education on puberty and their menstruation cycle, although it is in there science curriculum at school it is often very brief.  

Education around this significant time in a women's life is very important to understand and know how to properly manage these changes.

At Team Vista we are working will all seven primary schools in the Moshi, Tanzania area to provide a program where these young ladies have an opportunity to learn about puberty, menstruation and empowerment.  

In African culture, menstruation is often very taboo and young women don’t have the opportunity to ask questions about these changes. We are providing a safe space where these young ladies can have all of their questions answered.

Many women in the community will not get the opportunity to undertake tertiary education which results in them not being able to generate a significant income for themselves.

We have launched the Women’s Empowerment Soap making business to empower these women to run their own business and sell good quality soaps to local companies as well as westernised hotels in the area.

We did our research and found that there weren’t any other businesses making handmade Tanzanian soaps in the area and knew that this would be a fantastic way for these disadvantaged young ladies to generate an income for themselves.

Although this program has only recently launched the women have generated a number of sales and are on their way to having a thriving business.  

In conjunction with Msasani Secondary School, Team Vista has set up a Young Women's ‘hang-out’ space in a vacant classroom at the School based in Kaloleni.

To date we have had many successful young women from our Empowerment Group who are now in University or College. When they come back to the community for their holidays, they not only return to visit Team Vista home but they volunteer their time to Team Vista and spend time sharing their experiences with the Empowerment Group.

In 2011, Team Vista recognised a need for a children’s home in the Kaloleni area. We rented a premisis which gave our Coordinator and staff an office as well as  housing some young boys.
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Team Vista has recently purchased a plot of land near the home where we hope to build a community hall/office and a new Team Vista home at the rear.

The Audrey Priest Community Centre will give us more room for tuition classes, adult education and training as well as general use  for the community for meetings, weddings, funerals etc.

Three years ago Team Vista took under our ‘banner’ three wonderful deaf tailors –  Tatu Rafiki which means three friends. Polcaripy Mwacha his wife and her  sister Merceline Selestin and Merycedesi Selestin.

We set up a workshop for them  at Haria Hotel and they quickly started sewing – the usual touristy type clothing such as Katanga bags, happy pants and simple dresses. As time went by, their reputation grew and they were making shirts and skirts for tourists that came to stay at Haria.

Team Vista has purchased a plot of land in the village of Newland, thanks to our major sponsor W and G Engineering, located around half an hour from Moshi.

A  house has also been built and after a few unsuccessful attempts to employ a farmer, Team Vista has now given the opportunity to farm to one of our young Team Vista boys, Rama.

Newland is a fast growing community and has now town water on each home. Electricity wiring  is now in place and connected.