Our Projects

We have many projects at STOF
and we hope you will support our efforts to change lives!

Orphanage Homes

STOF provides each rescued child a safe place to call home, as well as food, clothing, medical care and all the daily needs children have.

We have one home for infant babies, one home for elementary school age kids and those attending high school, we also have two hostels for girls and one hostel for boys.

Each of our homes has one matron who lives with the children. Also, some of our college students live and work in the homes during holidays. We have other children we support, but they stay with their relatives. Some of these children are not doing the best, but since our homes are full, we just hope that soon we will be able to build another home for them.

What we need for our home building projects:

We would like to be able to take in and care for more children. Help us and be a part of helping children find homes and the care they need. We are currently renting space for the home for our babies, but we would love to be able to build a permanent home for our babies.

Infant Project

We rescue babies in 3 different types of situations:

Babies who have been completely abandoned and these babies come to live with us in our home for babies.
Babies who mothers have died during labor, or afterwards, and who have a relative who is willing to take care of them, but the relative has no means to provide for the baby. For these babies, we provide formula, medical care and other needs to help the relative care for them. Plus, we train the relative to take care of the baby.
Babies with mothers that have health situations which do not allow the mother to breast feed the child (most commonly HIV/AIDS). For these babies we provide formula, medical care and baby care training for the mother.

What we need for our infant project:

Our main struggle is to make sure these babies get formula milk to survive and medical care. Every donation changes lives!

Bright Future Hope Preschool - Food & Nutrition Program

Bright Future Hope Preschool provides early childhood learning, social interaction and also a good nutritious meal is provided daily to help with the early development of healthy bodies and minds. This year, in 2020, STOF has a total of 50 children in this program, but this will be increasing in September 2020.

We also provide for the children in their homes.
Fighting childhood hunger and malnutrition with good nutritious food wherever a STOF child lives is a high priority because it is essential for developing healthy bodies and minds. In addition to providing nutritious meals in our children’s homes, STOF is committed to provide a nutritious meal for the students in our schools, in our preschool and other preschools in Songea.

STOF also helps 3 other Preschools in Songea to provide the same program in their area, providing nutritious meals to all their malnourished orphans and vulnerable children under the age of seven.

What we need for our Preschool project:

Your donation will help us to provide nutritious meals for malnourished children under the age of 7. It will also help us to provide other important things like clothing, mosquito nets, shoes and school books.

Golden Gate Primary School - Grand Opening Jan 2021!

January 2021 will mark the grand opening of our Golden Gate Primary School. This is an exciting development for our STOF children, as well as the whole neighborhood. The addition of Kindergarten through 6th grade education will ensure that students enter secondary school with a good foundation for success.

Golden Gate Secondary School - 7th to 10th Grade
Run by St Teresa Orphans Foundation, but also open to the public

Golden Gate Secondary school maintains a very high rating when compared in National testing with other schools similar size in Ruvuma Region. The high quality of instruction adequately prepares our 10th grade graduates for high school.

Our school currently has four classrooms, a science laboratory, library, kitchen and dining hall. We still need 4 more classrooms and one more chemistry/physics lab.

Our school creates opportunities for orphans and vulnerable children, and especially for girls from the villages. It is also open to the public and providing opportunities for children who are not orphans.

STOF does not have 11 and 12 grades, so our students must enroll for High School in other cities throughout Tanzania in order to receive eligibility for college enrollment.

What we need for our Golden Gate School

Your donations will help us build 4 more classrooms and one chemistry/physics lab. This will enable the school to provide more opportunities for more children.

Help Send a Child to College

Because of donations, STOF has helped children graduate
from public colleges every year.

High School Graduates. Help us go to college!

College Graduates have overcome many obstacles to success. The sponsors who have invested in them from an early age, as well as the hard work and perseverance of the students, is a cause for great celebration!

If you would like to help us with this project you will be supporting the children who will be our future.

Devotha Mtitu

Viviana Mwinyi

Galus Mpepo

St. Benjamin Children's Clinic
Run by St Teresa Orphans Foundation,
but also open to the public

One of biggest challenges facing our community is high children mortality rate, the children in this community have now been blessed with St. Benjamin Clinic which will save a lot of children in the community.

Father George Garden & Farming Project
Our garden and farm at the orphanage

STOF staff work together with children just like one big family, growing food, like corn, beans and sweet potatoes which are among our staple foods in Tanzania. We also introduced a vegetable garden, where each high school student grows the vegetables they like. This has really helped a lot to be able to cut down on the cost of food and also to grow organically.

What we need for our garden & farming projects:

Your donation will help us improve our farming technology.

Container Project

Getting all the necessities in place to furnish homes, equip schools, operate a clinic, and provide daily needs for 200 children of all ages is a very great undertaking! Just imagine what effort Christmas must take too!

For the past three years, friends from Minnesota have been involved in sending a shipping container to STOF in Songea, Tanzania filled with items that have been donated or purchased. Shoes, clothing, backpacks, school supplies, gardening supplies, desks, tables, chairs, cribs, baby equipment, farming equipment, tools, bicycles, hospital equipment, Christmas presents etc.

What is needed? Well, everything!

To donate money for shipping, just click our PayPal button.
To donate goods, CONTACT US to find out what items are needed.