About Us


	In 1995 the Rt. Rev'd Alpha Mohamed the Bishop of the Rift Valley was invited to England to take part in a major consultation on worldwide mission organised by Church Mission Society (CMS). He was one of 400 delegates and the Anglican dioceses across the country were invited to host about 12 each.

The parish of Stranton in Hartlepool offered hospitality, and Bishop Alpha was allocated to them. It transpired that the Bishop of Durham Michael Turnbull and Alpha Mohamed had worked together many years before in Tanzania - and they took part together in a confirmation service at Stranton in 1995.

The collections raised from this and others services went towards buying a grain grinding machine for a farmer's cooperative in the Diocese.




		The Bishop meets the Mayor - Gladys Worthy

The Bishop invited people to 'come and see' his diocese in Tanzania - it is the poorest in Tanzania and has the fewest missionaries - i.e. none. The vicar Stephen Taylor was invited to lead some seminars for the clergy in 1996 but it wasn't until 1997 that a multi-disciplinary team visited.

They were Rev'd Stephen Taylor, Dr Alan Robertson, Ms Catherine Hatch, Rev'd Sandie Butler and with ReIn the year long preparation it was recognised that this visit had the opportunity to help in the longer term - even if in small ways - and so before the team left a charity began to be constituted.

The range of charitable aid was kept deliberately broad - but the geographical focus was limited to the Diocese of the Rift Valley area (co terminus with the government district of Singida).v'd David Mattonya became the first trustees. .




		Multi-disciplinery team visit




	Bishop Alpha Mohamed

Our Charitable objectives are:

1. To help the Church in the Diocese of the Rift Valley develop

2. To help develop better education

3. To promote good health care

4. To relieve poverty

The Trust Continues

David Mattonya (now a patron) and Sandie Butler have stepped down from being trustees and Geoffrey Nyangusi and Pat Vaughan have replaced them.

Each year people have visited the diocese with a range of different skills - although the majority have been to help in the school.

The Main projects have until very recently centred round the village of Kilimatinde

These have included: supporting the Church Secondary School (St John's), the Church run Kilimatinde Hospital and in 2002, the dam.

Christine Salaman's time there (1999-2002) saw more projects in remote rural areas

and now David Mattonya as Assistant Bishop has moved to the northern zone there will be other projects starting around Singida town.