$35
10 Programmes running · as at 2026-07-25
Nothing here starts until the community asks for it.
Education, clean water, solar power, women's livelihoods, health and conservation — built with communities across northern Tanzania, and run by them afterwards.
Moshi Kids CentreMoshi, Kilimanjaro · See the work
About ZARA Tanzania Charity
A charity built out of a travel business, in the places it takes people to.
Zainab Ansell founded ZARA Tanzania Charity in 2009 to extend the benefits of tourism to the communities the industry passes through. Seventeen years later it works in the same three districts, on projects those communities asked for.
- Moshi Kids Centre
- Maasai Pre-School Project
- Ngorongoro Water Project
- Solar Energy Project
- Women Make a Change
- The Asali Project
Lives reached
Communities supported
Active volunteers
Programmes running
Three of these four figures are carried over from the previous site and are not yet sourced. See exactly which, and what is still outstanding.
Our programmes
You can help a great many people by funding one thing well.
$120
Photography to come
$250
$75
$90
$50
Give monthly
A hive is a one-off. A child’s education is not.
One-off gifts keep programmes alive week to week. Monthly gifts let them hire a teacher, sign a lease, or promise a family that next year is covered. Pick something to hold up.
Start a monthly giftSponsor a child
$35 / month
Fees, uniform, materials and two meals a day for one named child.
Sponsor a classroom
$120 / month
One Maasai pre-school classroom kept open, with a teacher paid from the community.
Sponsor a water point
$250 / month
One borehole or gravity point kept running, with a funded maintenance committee.
Sponsor a hive
From $2 one-off
One hive, suit and training placed with a household in Karatu. A one-off gift of $50.
Plant trees
From $2 one-off
Indigenous seedlings raised, planted, GPS-logged and re-counted. $2 a tree.
Power a school
$75 / month
Panels, batteries and lighting for a rural school, maintained by a paid local technician.
Travel with purpose
Climb the mountain. Fund the school beneath it.
ZARA Charity sits alongside two travel businesses: Tanzania Wildlife Adventures and Tanzania Wild Camps. Every safari and every climb can carry a gift, and travellers can visit the project their money funded while they are here.
How it worksFour things we do, everywhere we work.
Education
Classrooms, fees, uniforms and materials, so a child who starts school finishes it.
See the workWomen's livelihoods
Training, tools and start-up stock, so women earn income they control.
See the workEnvironment
Indigenous planting, mountain and coastal clean-ups, counted at twelve months.
See the workWater and power
Boreholes and solar, each with a maintenance fund and a paid local technician.
See the workCommunities decide
Every project starts with a request from the community that will run it.
Budgeted to year five
Every build carries a running cost and a trained local person paid to do it.
Only what we can prove
Figures carry the report they came from, or they say the source is still pending.
Get involved
Money is one way in. Here are four more.
Volunteer
Placements across teaching, construction, health outreach and conservation. Assessed, not accepted automatically.
Apply for a placementFundraise
Run a marathon, climb Kilimanjaro, mark a birthday. Your own page, your own target, updates from the programme you chose.
Start a pagePartner as a company
A named programme, quarterly reporting with sourced figures, and a site visit for staff.
Talk to usGive in kind
Laptops, textbooks, medical supplies, solar components. Ask first — freight can cost more than buying in Arusha.
See the current listField notes
One update a month from the programmes. No appeals between them, and one click to stop.
Give
Pick an amount. See where it lands.
PayPal, or any card through it. Receipt in your inbox before you close the tab. Cancel a monthly gift yourself, any time.
Sewing machines handed over to a Women Make a Change tailoring group.