Help families community-wide receive basic health care and critical services
Join Karimu in building healthy communities.
About the campaign
In rural Tanzanian villages, access to quality healthcare is limited, and preventable illnesses continue to pose serious threats to individuals and families. Adults and adolescents often go untreated for chronic or acute conditions. Pregnant women face life-threatening complications like antepartum hemorrhage, and newborns lack access to basic but critical interventions like neonatal resuscitation. Additionally, essential services such as diabetes management, family planning, syphilis testing, and hemoglobin testing are either unavailable or severely under-resourced. These gaps result in poor health outcomes, unnecessary suffering, and even death — particularly among the most vulnerable.
Karimu follows the WHO (World Health Organization) guidelines for interventions, and partners with the government to make certain that health outcomes improve and that everyone has access to medical care on an ongoing basis. Already Karimu has seen dramatic improvements such as 80% more pregnant women returning for checkups, and an increase of 22% more people receiving vaccinations. We need funding to continue health interventions in Ayalagaya and Arri, and to expand to Dabil, a new community that Karimu will serve.
We’re ready to continue those health interventions and introduce new ones, that will directly address some of the most pressing and treatable health concerns in the region:
- Integrated management of adult and adolescent illnesses
- Antepartum hemorrhage care
- Neonatal resuscitation
- Diabetes mellitus management
- Family planning services Testing and counseling for HIV, STIs, and hepatitis
These services will be introduced through intensive training for healthcare workers, upgraded equipment, and ongoing community outreach to ensure access and utilization. To make this a reality, we are seeking to raise $24,700. This funding will go directly toward training sessions, medical supplies, diagnostic kits, and the operational support needed to roll out these interventions across three wards. Karimu has expanded its reach to Dabil–so the need to broaden health care and education is urgent, especially in this new community that lacks essential resources. Your donation can mean the difference between life and death for a mother experiencing complications during childbirth. It can give a diabetic patient the tools to manage their illness and live a longer life. It can ensure that no baby dies for lack of a simple resuscitation technique.
Join us in transforming healthcare for these communities. Help us bring lifesaving care where it's needed most.
Karimu has built a Health Center, which is recognized as the best in Manyara region, and, in addition, we have renovated two outreach clinics and built a new one. We are proud of the quality health care that is being provided. However, our approach is not only about infrastructure — it's about empowering local healthcare providers with the skills and tools they need to deliver effective, compassionate care, as well as provide health education to the general population, especially to pregnant women and mothers. Thanks to the funds already collected, Karimu has already introduced some of the new programs in Dabil:
- Anemia in pregnancy: All pregnant women have been consistently provided with the necessary supplements to avoid anemia.
- Syphilis testing: Testing for syphilis among pregnant women was previously limited to those presenting with symptoms, due to a shortage of test kits in dispensaries. Karimu intervened by supplying the necessary kits, and as a result, all women attending antenatal care, together with their partners, are now routinely screened for syphilis.
- Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia: All pregnant women are checked every visit.
- Hemoglobin testing: In 2025 all pregnant women were tested, with the government fully providing the necessary strips
- HPV vaccination: Between January and August 2025, a total of 631 girls were registered and successfully vaccinated across all Dabil schools.
- Tuberculosis testing: As a result of the campaign, 553 individuals came for testing. Among them, 109 people were tested for tuberculosis, and 16 positive cases were identified. All individuals who tested positive, along with their family members, were also screened to help prevent further transmission of the disease.
