About Buturi

Like many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, Northern Tanzania has suffered from the twin disasters of AIDS and drought. Twenty-five years of aids has decimated the community, so that we tend to see the very young and the very old: there is a missing generation, and the older generation struggle to bring up their children’s children and the orphans.
The villagers are mainly Nilotic people, who migrated from Egypt and Sudan some five hundred years ago. They have their own language; Luo and also speak Kiswahili, the only generic African language. English and Kiswahili are the national languages of Tanzania, but few speak English in the villages. They are fishermen and subsistence farmers, typically living in thatched mud huts, without electricity and water.
There is no safety net provided by the State, only the safety net provided by the extended family, which is becoming a broader base supported on an increasingly fragile inverted pyramid.
One is left with over riding impression of struggle, sacrifice and hopelessness.

Philosophy of Those Who Support the project

It is not contentious to say that Aid to Africa has been characterised by failure. Failure can be attributed to corruption, its government-to-government nature, bureaucratic mismanagement and its tendency to create dependency.

We believe that it is necessary to help people to help themselves. It is for that reason, we do not believe in giving aid, but working to strengthen the local community, for them to take responsibility, for them to achieve a better future.
We have no administration expenses and you can be sure that one hundred percent of any contribution you make, will go where it is needed.