Tanzania faces many challenges not least most of its citizens living under the poverty line. The average age in the country is just 18 years old and life expectancy is around 53 years.

One in every six children die before their fifth birthday and over three million children do not attend school, with two million children orphaned through AIDS/HIV.

Most children die from the preventable disease of Malaria however many also die from diarrhoea given that 45% of children do not have safe access to safe water and 67% do not have access to proper sanitation. You can help when your sponsor a child in Tanzania.