1.2 million children in Tanzania
GENEROSITY REPORT
have lost a parent due to AIDS and a significant percentage of those children also have tested positive for the disease. The Shalom Orphanage is located in Karatu, a bustling village in East Africa. The indigenous population face
significant
especially
the
struggles—
children.
Nearly
68% of the Tanzanian population lives
below
the
international
poverty rate, subsisting on less than $1.25 per day. Alcohol, drugs and unplanned children result in a large number of children being abandoned at a young age. Mama
RIPPLES OF HOPE:
Warra,
with
her
now
deceased husband Bishop Nnko,
Faith and Finance Leaders Unite to Help Tanzanian Orphanage
established
Shalom
in
2004
to help alleviate the suffering of
these
children.
Originally
housed in a single tiny room, Mama Warra initially took in three
children.
That
number
quickly multiplied, and in 2007,
By Originate Report Staff
W
along
with
the
assistance
of
like-
minded volunteers, Mama Warra hat does a Mortgage
orphaned and abandoned children.
Pool Fund Management
The orphanage currently supports
company, a faith-based
over 80 children, ranging in age
Real Estate Mastermind group and
from 1 to 18 years old—with most
an eastern North Carolina country
of those children being double
church have in common? These
orphans, having lost both parents.
groups share the common goal of
Many of the children under Shalom
improving the lives of 85 orphaned
Orphanage’s
children in Tanzania through the
from serious medication conditions
Shalom Orphanage.
including
care
are
HIV/AIDS,
suffering
mental
or
physical limitations and trauma-
was able to construct the existing orphanage that 80 children now call home. In 2018, Darin Brockelbank, the founder of Kings City Mastermind in
Charlotte,
North
Carolina,
traveled to Tanzania as part of a
Samaritans
event
and
Orphanage.
Feet
charitable
discovered He
was
Shalom
introduced
to Mama Warra, who informed
The Shalom Orphanage is a non-
induced
The
him of the orphanage’s mission,
profit entity established by Mama
orphanage aims to provide love,
where he met representatives from
Warra Nnko in 2004, with the
comprehensive healing and day-to-
Goldsboro
goal of improving the futures of
day care for these children. Over
located in North Carolina—who
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complications.
Worship
Center—also
