Africompassion Organization - USA
Bringing Clean Water, Education and Medical Care to Impoverished Children in Tanzania
Africompassion Organization - USA
EIN: 82-1071715
Mission
Bringing Clean Water, Education and Medical Care to Impoverished Children in Tanzania
Ruling year
2017
CEO
Steve Whitehouse
Main address
356 Grove Creek Dr
Pleasant Grove, UT 84062 USA
EIN
82-1071715
Elementary education
Secondary education
Disaster relief
Basic and emergency aid
International development
Population served
Orphans
Foster and adoptive children
People of African descent
NTEE code
International Relief (Q33)
IRS subsection
501(c)(3) Public Charity
IRS filing requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990-N.
Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Many people in Tanzania lack access to clean water, sanitation, education, and medical care. (45% of Tanzanians do not have access to potable water.) Without clean water, people get sick frequently with parasites and sicknesses like typhoid, cholera, and dysentery. The burden of carrying water from water sources which are usually significant distances from homes often falls on women, girls and children as the men are working in the fields. The time lost for them interferes with their education and ability to work. Sicknesses prevent people from working and providing for themselves. The public schools in rural Tanzania usually have 80 to 120 students per classroom. Children from poor families, especially orphans are often unable to attend public school as fees are required and school uniforms are also required.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Clean Water
Clean Water Changes Lives
We are working to provide clean water to the villages in the Mara region of Tanzania where we have close relationships with several villages in the Ikoma ward.
Without clean water, people get sick frequently with parasites and sicknesses like typhoid, cholera, and dysentery. The burden of carrying water from water sources which are usually significant distances from homes often falls on women, girls and children as the men are working in the fields. The time lost for them interferes with their education and ability to work. Sicknesses prevent people from working and providing for themselves.
Providing clean water is the first step in enabling people to escape poverty. Please help us to provide clean water to these children and villagers.
EDUCATION
Africompassion School for Hope is a basic school that sponsors 84 orphans. These children are too poor to pay public school fees or purchase school uniforms. The school does not have facilities, but is currently held in a very small open-air unfinished building in Kogaja a village in Ikoma, Rorya, Mara, Tanzania.
Africompassion is currently building a three classroom school building (4058 square feet) to accommodate 120 children on 7 acres of lands that it owns.
Our long-term vision is to build a school on 7 acres and develop a K-12 private school and adult education center that can serve as a model for education in rural Tanzania.
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Goals & Strategy
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our goal is to lift children and families out of poverty through clean water, education, medical care, and self-reliance.
We will complete a water project in Kogaja to provide water for 1,000 villagers.
We will build a school building to house 110 students
We will build a medical clinic to serve the 10 villages in the vicinity of 10,000 inhabitants.
We are seeking to help people escape poverty by providing clean water to the villages in the Kogaja area, and provide access to education by building and operating a private school that will offer free or subsidized education to poor children and charge an affordable tuition to families that can afford it.
Africompassion owns six acres of land in Kogaja, a village of 1,000 people in the Mara region of Tanzania.
Our board has significant experience in starting and managing charter schools in the United States.
Our goal is to build a school for 600 students and to collaborate to develop a private school that will offer a quality education to the children in the area
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We have a team of individuals experienced in finance, education, organizational development, and business management in the US. We are collaborating with an NGO in Tanzania with extensive experience who have volunteered and spent years working with the villagers in the Kogaja area.
We are working on training them and developing their organization.
Additionally, we are working on networking and fundraising in the United States to develop financial and other resources required to develop and support well drilling and water projects and the school construction and medical clinic construction.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Board member experience:
20 years charter school board membership experience
15 years experience as CFO of charter schools managing multi-million dollar annual budget
30 years experience financial investment industry
Business management and entrepreneurship experience
Board members with many years experience in East Africa humanitarian projects
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Registered NGO in Tanzania
School for 82 orphans established several years ago
Acquired seven acres of land in Kogaja
Dozens of volunteers recruited in Kogaja
Major water project in progress (7/2022, to be completed in August 2022) will provide 10,000 liters of water storage, well borehole providing 3,000 liters per hour of water capacity and water station with four faucets
Electrical transformer installed
Design for school building with three classrooms and living quarters for teachers 90% completed
Floor plans for medical clinic completed
Next major goal: finish design of school building and construct school building for 110 students.
Financials
Financial data
Africompassion Organization - USA
Revenue & expensesFiscal Year: 2021
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
| Revenue | |
|---|---|
| Contributions, Grants, Gifts | $99,819 |
| Program Services | $0 |
| Membership Dues | $0 |
| Special Events | $0 |
| Other Revenue | $0 |
| Total Revenue | $99,819 |
| Expenses | |
|---|---|
| Program Services | $87,112 |
| Administration | $5,841 |
| Fundraising | $0 |
| Payments to Affiliates | $0 |
| Other Expenses | $0 |
| Total Expenses | $93,047 |
Africompassion Organization - USA
Balance sheetFiscal Year: 2021
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
| Assets | |
|---|---|
| Total Assets | $6,773 |
| Liabilities | |
|---|---|
| Total Liabilities | $0 |
| Fund balance (EOY) | |
|---|---|
| Net Assets | $6,773 |
Operations
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CEO
Steve Whitehouse
Steve Whitehouse’s degrees in Business Management and Computer and Information Systems, his experience with technology (Word Perfect, Novell, FamilySearch, BYU oit), his experience with education and finance (as a founder and CFO of Karl G Maeser Preparatory - maeserprep.org), and his current work as an in infrastructure engineer at Brigham Young University, all combine to help him contribute to the progress and development of Africompassion. He is also familiar with non-profit organization practices, procedures, and governing regulations.
Steve served an LDS mission in both Belgium and France. When first acquainted with Africompassion, Steve felt a spirit of enthusiasm and commitment to building and lifting the individual lives of the people who live in Kogaja village and who abide in the Ikoma ward in Tanzania. He hopes to do this “one person, one family and one village at a time.”
Steve and his wife Janiel are the parents of four children and grandparents to one.
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Africompassion Organization - USA
Board of directorsas of 02/18/2023
Board of directors data
Steve Whitehouse
Africompassion
Term: 2021 - 2024
Kent Meyers
Africompassion
April Van Tassell
Africompassion
Rosie Gemmert
Africompassion
Frank Anderson
Africompassion
Janine See
Africompassion
Ruth Naylor
Africompassion
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