APA/Projects

APA Is the charity formed in 1985 (no 291988) The charity owns African Palms Ltd who covenant any profits each year into the trust. The aim of the trust is to support education and healthcare in the area where the crosses are made.

Future projects:

Miungo water project in the Mtwara region

We have provided funds towards 3 projects organised by the Britain Tanzania Society. First one, funds of £5300 to complete the Miungo water project in the Mtwara region. The project was completed in 2014.The water project has been a big success! On a recent visit, villagers told us how it had changed their lives. The […]

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Current projects, in 2022 - 2021:

Tree Project Rondo

Tanzania is an agricultural country, the success of the agricultural sector is dependant on seasonal rainfall. Increasingly drought has hit Tanzania meaning crops have failed time and time again. Also there has been flooding at times of the year when no rain was expected. Much of this can be put down to climate change. The […]

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Education Project

The drought in recent years, has led to many parents being unable to send their Children to school. In Tanzania it is usually the parents who have to buy books and equipment for schoolchildren. The failure of the harvest in recent years has led to them being unable to send their children to school. The […]

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Seed Project

Tanzania is an agricultural country, the success of the agricultural sector is dependant on seasonal rainfall. Increasingly drought has hit Tanzania meaning crops have failed time and time again. Also there has been flooding at times of the year when no rain was expected. Much of this can be put down to climate change. In […]

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Rondo Ngara Dispensary

Update - 2022 - A further £17,000.00 of funds were sent towards the end of 2021 to finish construction of  the project and to buy essential medical supplies to get the dispensary up and running. The project is now completed. It has been named after Alan and Shirley Talbot! The Rondo dispensary is a diocese […]

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Girl's Hostel Marika

Funding has been provided to construct a hostel at Marika secondary School. The Hostel will enable 80 students to be accommodated. It will improve the opportunities of many girls who would otherwise drop out of the education system early. It will be a safe environment which is important. The government will employ a matron to […]

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Recent Projects:

2020

January 2020

Flooding Masasi Area In January 2020 the Southern area of Tanzania. £1000 was sent to help with emergency relief.

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April 2020

Covid Training and Supplies. £6000 was provided for the training of volunteers and supplies. To try and prepare for Covid which was now sweeping the world Supplies included thermometers, masks, gloves and sanitiser. Volunteers were trained and sent village to village to try and prepare people. A further £5750 was provided in May to improve […]

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June 2020

Rondo Junior seminary donation £7000 Rondo seminary faced many problems including covid and flooding.  The Bishop of Masasi personally asked for help in getting the seminary up and running again, which was provided.

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2019:

Namikunda Primary School

Namikunda is one of the villages where the Palm Crosses are made. Discussions with the village elders and the diocese of Masasi came to the conclusion that instead of a water project the village would benefit more from investment in its school. In the three years 2017, 2018 and 2019 £13,000 has been provided to […]

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Children with HIV and street children

The trust invested £5,100 in this project to help children who have basically been left out of the schooling system. This involved buying 200 students what that they would require in order to attend school, including exercise books, bags, uniforms, shoes, pens and pencils.

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Agricultural Project Namasakata

In 2019 the trust provided £3100 to a project implemented by the Anglican Church of Tanzania. The area concerned was/is facing lower and lower crop yields, also there has become a lack of wood for fuel. The aim was to train farmers to use better systems to increase crop yields and also to implement a […]

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2018:

Student Fees

Continued support for the training of two students in environmental studies

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Chidya OPD

The Chidya out patients department serves a number of villages including Namaunya, Ngalinje, Chiwata, Namdimba and Mkudumba.  It is the only health centre in that area so people are really reliant on the services it provides. However it was built in 1954 and was in such a state of disrepair that the government had threatened […]

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2017:

Water projects

Funding  for the projects began in 2017, so far over £30,000 has been spent, and work has been completed in 3 villages. The first completed project was at MlundeMlunde Mpeta  Completed but work still continuing due to salt issues.

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2016:

Reroofing the sisters' house at Mtandi

We funded a new roof for the sisters' house at Mtandi. In July 2016 we visited the site with Bishop James and found building work well underway.

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Marumba Village, Bore Hole

A project which TDT (Tanzanian Development Trust) Pays 40% and a European Charity pays 60%. TDT had run out of money so African Palms paid £3100.00 to continue the project. This is one of the villages where Palm crosses are made.

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Water project for Misechela Village

Funding was provided to try and complete a water pipeline project which had stalled a year earlier. The aim of the project is to provide the 1508 Misechela villagers and other nearby villages with clean and safe water.

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Special Needs Department of Masasi Primary School

Masasi primary school has about 1000 pupils, of these 70 are in the special needs section, many are albinos with sight problems. African Palms funded the construction of a new toilet block, and a further grant of £2216.00 was given for equipment. In July 2016 we visited the school and found the toilet block completed […]

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2015:

Mnyambe Dispensary

The Mnyambe dispensary serves six villages in the area. The government had started work on a new outpatients department, which was left totally incomplete. The dispensary applied for funds to complete the project. African Palms provided £13,000.00 to complete the project.We visited the project in July 2016 and found it very near completion.

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Operating Theatre At Lulindi

Dr Lawi Issa had asked for funds to build a new operating theatre at Lulindi Health Centre. He was carrying out operations using a kitchen table in a room that had a curtain for a door.The project was completed in late 2016.

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Rondo tree planting project

African Palms provided £5769.00 to help plant 12,000 trees and plants in an area where ‘slash and burn’ agriculture had been the practice. Slash and burn basically means felling the trees on one plot of land, using it, then abandoning it, and then moving on to the next plot, not the best practice environmentally. The […]

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Past projects

Projects have done in 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2008
Projects funded in 2014

We have provided funds towards 3 projects organised by the Britain Tanzania Society. Miungo Water project 1) £5300 to complete the Miungo water project in the Mtwara region. The project was completed in 2014. The water project has been a big success! On a recent visit villagers told us how it had changed their lives. […]

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Projects funded on 2013

APA funded a project to build a hostel for 20 secondary school girls in the grounds of the convent at Mile Sita. The hostel was completed and opened in 2015 and has been a great success. The girls are really well cared for and supported by the sisters.

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Projects funded in 2012

In 2012 £30,000.00 was given to the Tanzanian Education Authority, and 500 desks were made at Ndanda by local carpenters, for 12 schools in the villages where the palm crosses are made.

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Project funded in 2011

In 2011 £45,000.00 was given to the Tanzanian Education Authority who bought required textbooks for 156 primary schools in the Masasi area.

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Project funded in 2010

In 2010 £3500.00 was sent to the Masasi Eye Clinic for medical supplies.

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Project funded in 2008

In 2008 £34562.00 was given to the Tanzanian Education Authority for books.

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African Palms

The aim of African Palms is to give people living in a very poor part of Tanzania the possibility of earning some extra money. The people’s daily work is the planting of maize, millet and some ground nuts to feed themselves and their families.
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