Charity number: 1199800
## • WHO WE ARE
•ACT is a registered UK CIO, founded in 2022 and was made up of members who had had previous experience of small scale development projects in Mtwara, Tanzania since 2015. They wished to keep their support going by forming this charity.
•ACT object statement aims to raise and dispense money for development projects within Tanzania to relieve poverty especially in the area of education, healthcare and sustainable income generation
- •ACT can take on small projects because it is staffed entirely by volunteers, both in the UK and Tanzania.
ACT Social media sites are:-
Website:https://act-tanzania.org/about Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/actanzaniacharity/
## LOCATION OF PROJECT AREA
## HOW WE ARE ORGANISED
ACT has a UK Board of Trustees with a range of skills, including previous experience and work in Tanzania.
ACT has an invaluable partnership link with Tanzanian NGO Soma Salama who support and facilitate our work in the area. This provides invaluable local involvement in project selection and implementation. Local representative Leah volunteers for ACT and is based in Mtwara. She oversees the projects’ implementation, chairs the Naumbu village committee and conducts Menstrual Health classes in local Secondary schools.
Project identification originates from needs identified by Soma Salama, which are followed up with a joint visit from the charity to assess the projects.
In 2025 ACT trustees were able to make 3 joint visits with Soma salaama to visit and view the projects.
Naumbu village Soma Salama committee discussing needs
Outcomes are put to the Board for approval and decision making.
- Safeguarding:-ACT continues to update its safeguarding procedures. In 2025; Members attended the Charity Commission webinar: Safeguarding in an International Context.
- Fundraising:- Funds for the charity’s projects continue to rely on individual fundraising events rather than funds received from other grant providing bodies. This included sponsored 3 peaks challenge, the London marathon and a tea dance. Some of the costs of projects are also provided by Soma Salaama, our partner NGO in Tanzania.
ACT 3 Peaks challenge raised £3533 for the charity
We thank Andy Reid for running in the London Marathon for raising over £3,000
## Our focus in 2025
ACT continued to conduct projects appropriate to our fund raising capacity largely supporting Naumbu village cluster, and Upendo Rehabilitation Centre in Mtwara. ACT focussed on the 4 key areas below
## 1. Health:
Naumbu village maternity ward completion
2. Income generation Training and equipping a local shallow well water drilling team
## 3. Water
Shallow wells drilled at:
Imekuwa Secondary school Upendo rehabilitation Centre
## 4. Education:
Desks and kitchen utensils provided for Naumbu Secondary school Menstrual health lessons in 4 secondary schools Some support for the HIV children linked to Mikindani Dispensary
## 1. Health; Completion of the Maternity ward at Naumbu Village cluster serving 6,300 people
## **Completing the Maternity ward**
Total Cost: TZS 25,543,000/- **Beneficiaries** ; More than 500 women in the surrounding area
This was our largest project for 2025 . This followed discussions and planning in 2024 with District Medical officers and engineers, the local Naumbu Dispensary Medical officer and our local builders.
ACT were able to contnuously monitor the work though the supervision of Leah from Soma salaama who was locally on site.
The Maternity ward building comprised: a delivery room, a resting troom, a nurses station, washroom, sluice room, covered walkway to the main dispensary, guttering with connections to the refurbished outdie tank, installation of hand pump for the outside pump
We were most pleased to be able to hold an opening ceremony in August 2025. It was called the Richard Greenway Maternity Clinic after ACT Trustee who passed away in 2025.
Continuous local monitoring enabled us
## 1. Health :Maternity ward completion.
Resting room, electric fan, washroom, security bars with mosquito netting
- to complete the ward to a high standard
- to keep the costs down
Covered walkway to the main dispensary
Delivery room with tiled flooring
The District government partnered with us by adding new toilets, outside taps and incinerator and waste pit
## 1. Health; Maternity ward completion.
ACT also added new gutters and pipes, collecting rainwater to connect with a refurbished water tank, and hand pump to supply freshwater to the ward.
Mtwara District government provided outside taps and new toilets, and tank on a stand linked to the borehole ACT had provided
Mtwara District Government provided a waste pit and incinerator for the Maternity ward
## 2 a+b .
## a.Local young men trained to be a well drilling team b.Two new boreholes drilled
**Total Cost:** TZS 12,172,000/- **Beneficiaries:**
- 10 young men as part of the new drilling team
- Imekuwa Primary School: 1,101 pupils
- Upendo Center: 80 children and 10 staff members
ACT paid trainers from SHIPO -Tz an organisation with a long experience in training groups to train its own group. The aim is for this group to undertake water projects for ACT and for their own income generation.
ACT trainees receiving training on inserting the pump
ACT trainees receiving training in hand drilling the well
## 2.b. Water Shallow well drilled at: Imekuwa Secondary school
Imekuwa Primary school is located a few Km from Naumbu where ACT drilled a well in 2024.
The newly formed drilling team drilled this well by themselves while being supervised by the trainers.
Previously the school had no running water. Good “potable” water was produced from this well.
As the yield from this water source was lower, a hand pump was fitted rather than an electric pump which would allow it to be more sustainable.
An added bonus is that It is much lower cost to buy and to run.
## 2.b. Water Shallow well drilled at Upendo Rehabilitation Centre
Christine is a working mother who on finding little Government support for children like her daughter with Autism and others with physical and other learning difficulties decided to start her own center in 2021.
She moved into a new centre in 2025
Children in one of the dormitories
Shallow well and tank provided by ACT supplies freshwater on site for the dormitories, kitchen and vegetable garden
## 4. Education:
## Menstrual health lessons in twelve schools in the area led by Leah
## **Annual Cost:** TZS 2,433,000
## **Sessions Conducted:** 12
## **Participants:** 75 girls per session
**Total Girls:** 900 girls in 2025
Mikindani Sec school Mangamba Sec school Mtwara Tech school Bandari Sec school Shangani Sec school. Kambarage Primary school. Rahaleo Sec school Tandikwa Sec school Naumbu Primary school Imekuwa Primary school Sino Secondary school Umoja Secondary school
New sign board produced to accompany lessons
## August 2025. Technical College Menstrual Health
## A section from Leah’s report:-
School: Mtwara technical College Participants 50 girls from Forms 5 and 6 aged 15 and 17
“ The main goal of the training was to educate the students about menstrual health, how to make the sanitary reusable pads and proper hygiene practices during menstruation.
Student participation: The students showed a high level of cooperation, were very enthusiastic to participate and asked many questions…
## Discussions and interviews:
I had the opportunity to speak with some students individually and conduct short interviews on the topics discussed. They expressed how much they had enjoyed the session and that it had significantly improved their knowledge.”
## 4. Education:
Desks and kitchen utensils provided for Naumbu Primary school Cost:-TZS 1,585,000/Food supplied for standard 7 pupils at Naumbu Primary school Cost:-TZS 482,000/Support for the HIV children club linked to Mikindani Dispensary Cost: TZS 728,000/-
10 more desks supplied to Naumbu Primary school
Some food support for Naumbu standard 7 pupils to support their learning
Pots supplied to Naumbu Primary school
**Beneficiaries: Naumbu** • Girls: 658 • Boys: 378 Total pupils: 1,036
Eggs supplied to to the HIV children club Mikindani Dispensary
## **Beneficiaries:**
- 28 children
- 2 caregivers
Financial report
|**Metro Bank Opening Balance on 01.01.24**|**Metro Bank Opening Balance on 01.01.24**|**Metro Bank Opening Balance on 01.01.24**|**Metro Bank Opening Balance on 01.01.24**||**£7,594.76**||
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|**Date**|**Details**|**Transactio**|**In**|**Out**|**Balance**||
|29/12/2025
Card Transaction
205.99
**3829.00 **
04/12/2025
BACS Paym
36.18
**4034.99**
03/12/2025
Card Transaction
93.87
3998.81
28/11/2025
Card Transaction
479.46
4092.68
27/11/2025
Card Transaction
35.98
4572.14
25/11/2025
Inward Pay
195.5
4608.12
11/11/2025
Outward Faster Payme
38.2
4412.62
11/11/2025
Card Transaction
318.02
4450.82
06/11/2025
BACS Paym
36.18
4768.84
05/11/2025
Inward Pay
1202
4732.66
03/11/2025
Inward Pay
465.98
3530.66
31/10/2025
Outward Faster Payme
175
3064.68
31/10/2025
Outward Faster Payme
187.78
3239.68
31/10/2025
Inward Pay
0.98
3427.46
31/10/2025
Outward Faster Payme
540
3426.48
28/10/2025
Card Transaction
104.03
3966.48
27/10/2025
Card Transaction
21.35
4070.51
16/10/2025
Card Transaction
107.69
4091.86
13/10/2025
Card Transaction
181.69
4199.55
09/10/2025
Card Transaction
92.04
4381.24
08/10/2025
Card Transaction
621.85
4473.28
07/10/2025
Card Transaction
282.99
5095.13
06/10/2025
BACS Paym
36.18
5378.12
01/10/2025
Card Transaction
**405.99**
5341.94
08/09/2025
Card Transaction
**405.99**
5747.93
05/09/2025
Card Transaction
15.99
6153.92
04/09/2025
BACS Paym
132.68
6169.91
03/09/2025
Inward Pay
**400**
6037.23
01/09/2025
Outward Faster Payme
**400**
5637.23
29/08/2025
Outward Faster Payme
109
6037.23
29/08/2025
Outward Faster Payme
95
6146.23
22/08/2025
Outward Faster Payme
74.11
6241.23
20/08/2025
Outward Faster Payme
132.61
6315.34
07/08/2025
BACS Paym
586.58
**6447.95 **
23/07/2025
Outward Faster Payme
155.00
5861.37
16/07/2025
Outward Faster Payme
835.42
6016.37
11/07/2025
Outward Faster Payme
85.71
6851.79
04/07/2025
Outward Faster Payme
176.73
6937.50
04/07/2025
Outward Faster Payme
202.50
7114.23
04/07/2025
Outward Faster Payme
195.50
7316.73
03/07/2025
BACS Paym 3817.32
7512.23
18/06/2025
Outward Faster Payme
625.00
3694.91
18/06/2025
Outward Faster Payme
129.00
4319.91
06/06/2025
Outward Faster Payme
127.28
4448.91
05/06/2025
BACS Paym
205.05
4576.19|||||||
|||||||**STWDSHP**|
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|||||||MaternityClinic|
|||||||Quiz Night|
|||||||Quiz Night|
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|||||||MaternityClinic|
|||||||MaternityClinic|
|||||||MaternityClinic|
|||||||STWDSHP|
|02/06/2025
Outward Faster Payme 1045.00
4371.14
27/05/2025
Inward Pay
24.88
5416.14
23/05/2025
Outward Faster Payme
75.00
5391.26|02/06/2025
Outward Faster Payme 1045.00
4371.14
27/05/2025
Inward Pay
24.88
5416.14
23/05/2025
Outward Faster Payme
75.00
5391.26|02/06/2025
Outward Faster Payme 1045.00
4371.14
27/05/2025
Inward Pay
24.88
5416.14
23/05/2025
Outward Faster Payme
75.00
5391.26|02/06/2025
Outward Faster Payme 1045.00
4371.14
27/05/2025
Inward Pay
24.88
5416.14
23/05/2025
Outward Faster Payme
75.00
5391.26|02/06/2025
Outward Faster Payme 1045.00
4371.14
27/05/2025
Inward Pay
24.88
5416.14
23/05/2025
Outward Faster Payme
75.00
5391.26|02/06/2025
Outward Faster Payme 1045.00
4371.14
27/05/2025
Inward Pay
24.88
5416.14
23/05/2025
Outward Faster Payme
75.00
5391.26|MaternityClinic|r
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|12/05/2025||Inward Pay|1446.03||**5466.26**|London Marathon Fundraise||
|09/05/2025||Outward Faster Paym||e
20.00|4020.23|Leaflets||
|08/05/2025||Outward Faster Paym||e
80.00|4040.23|D P expenses||
|06/05/2025||BACS Paym|265.63||4120.23|STWDSHP||
|02/05/2025||Outward Faster Paym||e
40.00|3854.60|D P expenses||
|28/04/2025||Inward Pay|105.15||3894.60|London Marathon Fundraise||
|22/04/2025||Inward Pay|129.53||3789.45|London Marathon Fundraise||
|17/04/2025||Outward Faster Paym||e
179.00|3659.92|D P expenses||
|15/04/2025||Outward Faster Paym||e
753.00|3838.92|Clinic Windows||
|14/04/2025||Inward Pay|33.60||4591.92|London Marathon Fundraise||
|10/04/2025||Outward Faster Paym||e
120.00|4558.32|Leah expenses||
|07/04/2025||Inward Pay|95.94||4678.32|London Marathon Fundraise||
|07/04/2025||**Card Transaction**||**1.89**|4582.38|||
|07/04/2025||**Card Transaction**||**1.50**|4584.27|||
|07/04/2025||**ATM Transaction**||**63.31**|4585.77|Materials,Footballs,Menstr||
|04/04/2025||Outward Faster Paym||e
300.00|4649.08|Tank Washed Out||
|03/04/2025||**Card Transaction Fee**||
**1.91**|4949.08|||
|03/04/2025||**Card Transaction**||**1.50**|4950.99|||
|03/04/2025||**ATM Transaction**||**63.91**|4952.49|Materials - MaternityWard||
|03/04/2025||**Card Transaction Fee**||
**1.91**|5016.40|||
|03/04/2025||**Card Transaction Fee**||
**1.50**|5018.31|||
|03/04/2025||**ATM Transaction**||**63.91**|5019.81|Fundi Travel Costs,Material||
|03/04/2025||**Card transaction Fee**||
**0.58**|5083.72|||
|03/04/2025||**Card Transaction Fee**||
**1.50**|5084.30|||
|03/04/2025||**ATM Transaction**||**19.40**|5085.80|Committee travel expenses||
|03/04/2025||BACS Paym|36.18||5105.20|STWDSHP||
|31/03/2025||Inward Pay|48.75||5069.02|London Marathon Fundraise||
|25/03/2025||Outward Faster Paym||e
965.90|5020.27|MaternityWard||
|24/03/2025||Inward Pay|656.04||5986.17|London Marathon Fundraise||
|18/03/2025||Outward Faster Paym||e
80.00|5330.13|Menstrual Health||
|17/03/2025||Inward Pay|9.38||5410.13|London Marathon Fundraise||
|14/03/2025||Outward Faster Paym||e
125.00|5400.75|Shower||
|07/03/2025||Outward Faster Paym||e
521.00|5525.75|Waste Pit||
|06/03/2025||Outward Faster Paym||e
200.00|6046.75|Menstrual Health||
|06/03/2025||BACS Paym|283.47||6246.75|STWDSHP||
|28/02/2025||Inward Pay|39.15||5963.28|Stripepayments||
|27/02/2025||Outward Faster Paym||e
100.00|5924.13|Leah LR expenses TZ||
|25/02/2025||Inward Pay|58.83||6024.13|Stripepayments||
|24/02/2025||Inward Pay|114.03||5965.30|Sum up payment MC4||
|24/02/2025||Inward Pay|19.48||5851.27|Stripepayments||
|19/02/2025||Inward Pay|39.15||5831.79|Stripepayments||
|18/02/2025||Outward Faster Paym||e 1790.00|5792.64|MaternityClinic||
|14/02/2025||Inward Pay|39.15||7582.64|Stripepayments||
|06/02/2025||BACS Paym|12.06||7543.49|STWDSHP &||
|03/02/2025||Inward Pay|78.26||7531.43|Stripepayments||
|03/02/2025||Inward Pay|78.11||7453.17|Stripepayments|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|31/01/2025||Outward Faster Paym||e
232.00|7375.06|Piano Concerto Fundraiser|
|17/01/2025||Outward Faster Paym||e
200.00|7607.06|Leah Expenses|
|06/01/2025||BACS Paym|212.30||7807.06|STWDSHP &|
||||||**7594.76**||
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||||10939.73|14705.49|||
|||**Opening B**|**a£7,594.76**||||
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|||**Totals**|18534.49|14705.49|**3829.00 **|**Carried forward to 2026**|
|**Date**|**Details**|**Transactio**|**In**|**Out**|**Balance**||
|Date
Transactio In
Out
Balance
BACS Paym
36.18
**3771.88**
05/01/2026
Card Transaction
93.3
3735.7|||||||
|||||||STWDSHP
Bore Hole|