Amani Care for Africa

Working closely with communities in rural central Tanzania to establish and sustain:

Water Resources, Agriculture & Forestry Development, Education, Health and Nutritian

Welcome to the Web Pages of

The Amani Development Organization

Amani Care is a community-related and Christ-centered NGO operating in central Tanzania dedicated to the relief of poverty.

The programs cover - Care for orphans and others, Water Resources, Agricultural/Horticultural Development, Education, Vocational Training, Health and Nutrition, Social & Spiritual Development.

Activities are jointly planned with a community where people are not comfortable with handouts, but willingly work for Amani in return for personal benefits received, and join as volunteers on community projects such as supplying water or building a school for orphans.

The immediate aim is sustaining basic human needs; the long-term aim is to facilitate an improved quality of life that can be maintained by the local community.  The Tanzanian Government has described Amani Care as a role-model for other NGO's.

"The Great Need in the Region is Water"

The cost to drill and equip a well in Tanzania is about $40,000 and the benefits of uncontaminated water are far-reaching.  Life is totally transformed, the cycle of cholera is broken, the incidence of typhoid is greatly reduced and eye infections in children practically disappear.  Also, by using drip irrigation on family gardens, a household of seven can raise enough vegetables for a full year. 

Amani has now drilled and equipped five wells and completely restored one abandoned well.  At the Makang'wa well, Amani has installed an extensive water supply system through part of this large village.  Four “traditional” hand dug wells have also been completed. These average about 20 feet deep and are brick lined for long term use. Over 30,000 people from eight local villages rely on clean water funded/provided by Amani.