How to Donate

We greatly appreciate any help you can give. Your donations will be used to help feed, clothe, and educate the children, as well as ensure they get much needed medical care.

Donations from within the USA

Donors in the USA may donate through Seeds of Hope Tanzania, a charitable organization based in the US and dedicated to improving life in Tanzania. Donations made through Seeds of Hope are eligible for a tax receipt. Please contact them here and be sure to say your donation is for Canaan Children’s Center!

IMPORTANT: At this point, we are not a registered charity in any other country except Tanzania, and so we are unfortunately not able to issue tax receipts for donations.

Wire Transfer

Donations may be made to Canaan Children’s Center directly by wire transfer. (We do not generally recommend sending checks because the banking fees and other fees for foreign checks are extremely high.)

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Alex Lengeju, Executive Director

Canaan Children’s Center, Off Dodoma Road, Kisongo

Email: a_lengeju@yahoo.com

Mobile Phone: +255786533776 or +255715033776

How We Finance Quality Care

In order to be able to finance the provision of quality care to our children, the Center invites friends locally and internationally to contribute by making regular donations, each according to their means, to make the provision of quality care sustainable. We recruit friends at two levels:

1. Friends of Canaan Children

These are companies, organizations, groups and individuals who commit to provide regular financial donations to the running costs of the Center. The proposed model is monthly, though for the sake of saving money transfer costs, international friends will be advised to deliver donations once or twice a year.

2. Ambassadors of Canaan Children

These again are organizations, groups and individuals who distinguish themselves by being friends who regularly donate to support the running costs of Canaan Children’s Center, but they further commit themselves to raise friends who will become regular contributors to support the running costs of Canaan Children’s Center.

Ambassadors of Canaan Children are encouraged to use their media outlets (newsletters, websites and brochures, etc.) to create awareness and invite others to become friends of Canaan Children. Ambassadors may also choose to use Friends of Canaan Registration Cards for registering friends, or other means that may be more practical to their situation.

Maintaining Friends and Ambassadors

The management of the Center will maintain a close relationship with Friends and Ambassadors by regularly updating this website.

Monthly Cost of Care for Each Child

Friends and Ambassadors are welcome to create their own donation plans, for example, financing comprehensive care for one or more children for any number of months, or financing a particular aspect of care for all children for any number of months.