Health Tanzania partners with Tanzanian individuals and organizations in order to improve the health and education of poor Tanzanians. Our current programs focus on two very poor neighborhoods in Dar es Salaam, a city of five million people, and very poor and isolated coastal villages. With our Tanzanian partners, we are helping to provide out-patient and in-patient health care, community health and prevention programs, and primary education.
July-September 2026 Newsletter
The programs and partners we support in Tanzania continue to develop services for community health and education. The major immediate need is a digital X-ray machine now that Buguruni Anglican Health Centre has a finished, government-approved X-ray building. A new quality X-ray machine costs $65,000 from Action Medeor, a German NGO that is located close to the health center. The company is willing to
April-June 2026 Newsletter
In April through June 2026, the staff at Buguruni Anglican Health Centre (BAHC) saw 15,241 patients, including outpatients, inpatients, child health, dental work, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis. Eleven patients were referred to Amana Hospital for specialty care. BAHC has been slowly increasing the types of operations being done at the center. Thank you, donors, for your support for building the surgical theater and supporting BAHC’s
December 2025-March 2026 Newsletter
During the past four months, Health Tanzania Foundation and its Tanzanian partners have continued developing sustainable Tanzanian systems and helping poor people and communities to help themselves, despite the world’s economic turmoil. Our current newsletter covers Buguruni Anglican Health Centre, community-based rehabilitation, home-based care, assistance to orphans and vulnerable children, family medicine, and more. Please help us build on our 20 years of progress in
May-November 2025 Newsletter
As of September, we have worked with our partners in Tanzania for 20 years – 13 of them through Health Tanzania Foundation. Our approach, an anti-colonial holistic model, helps poor and marginalized Tanzanians improve their health, education, and incomes. We also help Tanzanian leaders and institutions develop so that they can create local and sustainable long-term programs that assist needy Tanzanians in future years.
2024 Annual Report
In 2024, Health Tanzania Foundation (Health Tanzania) and its Tanzanian partners continued to improve the lives of thousands of Tanzanians by strengthening Tanzanian leaders’ health systems. Health Tanzania continued to focus on developing Buguruni Anglican Health Centre (BAHC) to become a district-level teaching hospital for family medicine residents, medical and nursing students, and community workers. BAHC served 65,000 patients in 2024 and received a
August-November 2024 Newsletter
Tanzania is still struggling with the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Also, inflation is much worse than in the United States. Basic food prices continue to increase. Global warming has led to droughts and flooding. In the normally wet coastal areas where our urban and rural programs are based, decreased rainfall has created more hardship. Since over 14 million people are already trying to
