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. 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. For example, recent programs have included safe delivery training, prevention of anemia during pregnancy, and training for newborn and infant care both for medical staff and for families. Read more about Karimu’s comprehensive health program.
Now, we’re ready to take the next step by launching seven health interventions 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
- Syphilis testing
- Hemoglobin testing
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.