Sun. 5/19/24
12:00-3:00pm
Enjoy a beer in support of Karimu Foundation! Proceeds from 5/19 will go toward building school kitchens at Ufani school with fuel-efficient stoves so that students can receive daily meals, cooks will no longer have to prepare food over open fires and risk respiratory diseases, and less firewood will be used which reduces deforestation and school expenses.
About Karimu:
Karimu founders Don Stoll and Marianne Kent-Stoll first visited Dareda Kati in 2007 as tourists, curious about life in an African village. They had no idea that they would be welcomed by the whole community and invited to come back. Shocked by some of the challenges facing the villagers—for example, Ufani Primary School’s 230 students had just two usable classrooms—they felt obligated to return.
Back in California, Don and Marianne founded the nonprofit Karimu International Help Foundation in 2008. The Swahili word karimu, meaning “generous” and “welcoming,” aptly describes Dareda’s people.
Don and Marianne thought it was important for people besides themselves to experience what they had, so Karimu’s annual trips have always included volunteers—as few as 15 and as many as 35. These volunteers work hard during their 12 or 13 days in the village, but the great bulk of the managerial and physical work on Karimu’s projects is executed by year-round Tanzanian residents to whom Karimu pays salaries or hourly wages. Their original host in Dareda Kati, Kahembe, was consistently the most crucial Tanzanian contributor to Karimu’s work, overseeing the efficient execution of one project after another.