Community food support, shared Iftaar meals and the journey from borehole drilling to water collection. Explore the people and places behind the Foundation’s work.
Tanzania Shelter Homes · Completed handoverNg’ombeni · Students at the water pointZanzibar Medical Camp · Primary care & pharmacy
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60 photographs across eight photo stories
September 2026 · Rural Tanga
Tanzania Shelter Homes (15 Completed Homes)
Strategic partnership with MAA International. Handover of 15 permanent brick-and-mortar homes replacing fragile thatch shelters for impoverished rural households. Construction verified and monitored through Microsoft PowerApps.
Contract SHL-PO-2025-ZMF-TZA-TZA-001. 15 completed family residences with stone foundations, burnt brick walls, iron roofing, and weatherproof doors.
January–February 2025 · Zanzibar
Zanzibar Access to Care Medical Camp
High-volume humanitarian medical mission deployed across Matemwe, Kigomani, and Unguja North/South. A 10-person clinical team delivered free diagnostics, ophthalmology vision screenings, and prescription medicines for 3,000 patients.
Contract HLT-PO-2025-ZMF-TZA-TZA-001 with MAA International Australia. Total grant expenditure TZS 37,380,000.
August 19, 2026 · Mkinga District
Kwamtili Primary School Toilets & Sanitation Handover
Comprehensive school sanitation block construction providing ventilated improved pit latrines, separate facilities for male and female pupils, hygienic wash stations, and drainage.
Project ZF-2026-004. Handed over to school administration and district education authorities on August 19, 2026.
June–July 2026 · Tanga Region
Qurban Meat Distribution 2026
Three-day field operations at Tanga Abattoir: Day 1 veterinary inspection and Halal processing, Day 2 precision weighing and cold-chain storage, Day 3 multi-ward logistics and direct distribution reaching thousands of vulnerable families.
Contract QRB-PO-2026-ZMF-TZA-TZA-001 with MAA International Australia.
April 2026 · Rural Tanga
Sadaqah Food Hampers Distribution
Essential dry-food relief parcels (rice, maize flour, cooking oil, beans, sugar) distributed directly to widows, orphans, and destitute households across rural Tanga wards.
Project ZF-2025-007. Direct community distribution verified with local village leaders.
April 2022 · Muheza & Kilindi
Ramadan 2022 Food Relief Archive
Foundation inaugural food relief operations providing 200 large family hampers across Ubembe (35 hampers / 175 beneficiaries), Mamboleo-Nkumba (55 hampers / 275 beneficiaries), and Kwa-stemba (110 hampers / 550 beneficiaries).
Project ZF-2022-002. Total 1,000 direct beneficiaries.
Completed February 2024 · Mkinga District
Ng’ombeni Primary School Water Well
120-metre deep borehole infrastructure, solar/electric submersible pump, elevated 5,000L polyethylene reservoir, and school distribution tap stands serving 3,409 beneficiaries.
Project budget TZS 18,970,000. Implemented with Comfort Aid International and Nyota Foundation.
Completed February 2024 · Mkinga District
Mtoni Bombo Community Water Well
190-metre deep borehole, elevated storage tower, concrete apron, and communal tap stands serving 3,500 rural residents.
Project budget TZS 19,070,000. Implemented with Comfort Aid International and Nyota Foundation.
Completed September 2023 · Mkinga District
Mwakijembe Primary School Well
115-metre deep borehole providing safe water for 2,584 school children and surrounding village households.
Project budget TZS 19,047,000. Implemented with Comfort Aid International and Nyota Foundation.
Completed September 2023 · Mkinga District
Kuze-Kibago Village Well
120-metre deep borehole infrastructure serving 2,823 community members in Kibago village.
Project budget TZS 19,257,000. Implemented with Comfort Aid International and Nyota Foundation.
Field Video Recordings & Highlighted Mwanahamisi Story
Watch Mwanahamisi’s featured healthcare appeal alongside verified shelter inspections, sanitation handovers, and community food distributions recorded on-site across Tanzania.
Distribution of Iftaar Charity for the Holy Month of Ramadan
Serving Iftaar meals and Ramadan food charity to fasting community members.
2022—2026
The journey, year by year.
Photographic milestones and the Foundation’s supplied project records are presented with their dates and context.
2022
Foundation and first community programs
Zaimo Foundation was formally established as a Tanzanian NGO. Community needs assessments and local engagement accompanied early humanitarian work. The April Ramadan archive records food preparation, transport and distribution.
Photographs dated 27 March document outdoor food distribution. The 14 April evening archive follows a shared meal, volunteer food service and the Iftaar team.
The project guide records both wells as completed in September 2023. Matching reference photographs show drilling and site activity; they are presented as construction-stage records.
Drilling and completion photographs record the two water projects. The guide lists completion in February 2024, with borehole depths of 120 metres and 190 metres respectively.
The guide records education-centre funding in February 2024, additional well completions through 2025, and Ramadan food relief in Tanga and Pemba. This milestone is based on written project records; the available earlier photographs are not relabeled as these events.
Written project record
December 2025–April 2026
Further water-well handovers
The guide records handover of wells 25–26 on 20 December 2025, wells 27–29 on 7 February 2026, and wells 30, 31 and 33 on 9 April 2026.
Written project record
2026
Shelter and seasonal support
The project guide reports 15 of 20 shelter homes completed by September 2026. The Ramadan 2026 plan includes 3,100 food packs, 9,000 hot meals and 400 footballs; these are planned deliverables, not inferred completed totals.
Written project record
Chronology: supplied Zaimo project guide and named photo archives. Community photographs without an event date remain undated. A file’s transfer date is not an event date.
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