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Karibu! Welcome to the Baobab Home MySpace! We are an NGO based in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, East Africa.

About Me

The Baobab Home was founded by Terri Place, originally of New Jersey, and her husband Caito of Tanzania. Terri is a graduate of

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We provide outreach assistance to babies and toddlers orphaned to AIDS and poverty. We are also in the process of founding a small orphanage for abandoned children to provide interim care, in the hope that foster or adoptive care can be found. Social Services has requested that the Home serve children from birth to 3 years of age, and we will accept sick and healthy children, regardless of HIV status.Thank you! To all of our donors who make our work possible.http://www.tzkids.org/

My Interests

MISSIONOur mission is to improve the health and future of orphaned babies in Tanzania and avoid their institutionalization by creating a family of donors who will enable us to protect orphaned children’s rights, empower their caretakers and give interim housing and love to babies who are abandoned.

www.tzkids.org

I'd like to meet:

our goals!• Support existing community coping methods by enabling babies orphaned to AIDS and other causes to stay with willing and able family members. • Open the Baobab Home orphanage to provide temporary or long term care for up to 8 infants and toddlers, regardless of HIV status. • Ensure every child in our care, regardless of HIV status, is provided a healthy, stimulating environment with proper food, clothing, medical care and love, and all children with terminal illnesses have a dignified, comforting death. • Reunify children with willing and able family member or find foster or adoptive families when reunification is not possible. • Sponsor the education(school fees, uniforms) of as many Orphans and other Vulnerable Children (OVC) as we can and sponsor activities to encourage reading and responsibility. • Increase awareness among donors and other interested people of the impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis. • Make appropriate referrals when we are unable to help directly. • Recruit international volunteers to help us raise money and conduct our outreach activities in order to make Bagamoyo a better place. • Seek ever more appropriate methods to serve the Tanzanian Coast Region and its children. • Conduct ongoing program evaluation and follow up with children

Movies:

OVERVIEW

BUILDING PROGRAM

See more Baobab Home videos at: www.youtube.com

Heroes:

YOU! You can be our hero by donating time or money. Visit http://www.tzkids.org/ for more information. All donations are tax deductible.

My Blog

Small Favor Needed! (no money required)

50 Cent will be in Tanzania soon and Caito of the Baobab Home will be the sound guy for the show. It would be wonderful publicity if he visited the Baobab Home, but we have to get the word to him fast...
Posted by BaobabHome on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:06:00 PST

In Praise of Grandmothers

Originally posted Friday, December 07, 2007 on http://tzkids.blogspot.com/Just one more blog inspired by traveling with Ema, lest you all think the other boys have disappeared. During our trip to Mosh...
Posted by BaobabHome on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:31:00 PST

Dromedary Drama

Originally posted Monday, November 26, 2007 on http://tzkids.blogspot.com/By the time I walked down to visit the camel (See previous blog), the verdict had already been reached to spare her life. I go...
Posted by BaobabHome on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:24:00 PST

Camel Country

Originally posted Saturday, November 24, 2007 on http://tzkids.blogspot.com/We were driving home from the bus stand the other night. Caito turned the corner onto our street and there was a huge camel!...
Posted by BaobabHome on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:22:00 PST

In Memorium

Originally posted Friday, November 23, 2007 on http://tzkids.blogspot.com/Naima, daughter of Mama Mwajuma, passed away 3 weeks ago. Just 36 hours before she died, her mother had taken her to a traditi...
Posted by BaobabHome on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:17:00 PST

More on the Search for Ema’s Family

Originally posted Friday, November 23, 2007 at http://tzkids.blogspot.com/Emmanuel, Justis and I are back safely from Moshi Tanzania, at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. One of the reasons we went was t...
Posted by BaobabHome on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:15:00 PST

Holiday Shopping!

It's that time of year! If you're doing any of your shopping on-line, please start your search at iGive.com. Choose the Baobab Home as your charity and participating stores will donate a percentage of...
Posted by BaobabHome on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:50:00 PST

Emmanuel Closer to Finding Family

Originally posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 on blogspot I wish you could all sit and listen firsthand to the stories of Emmanuel's journey to find his family. Caito and Ema both loved the trip so much...
Posted by BaobabHome on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:14:00 PST

News from Kenya (Ema Update)

Originally posted Thursday, September 20, 2007 on blogspotJust got a text message from Caito and Ema in Kenya. They have been giving out cards with Ema's story on it and a phone number. They got two t...
Posted by BaobabHome on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:58:00 PST

Ekesaa Goes Home

Originally posted Sunday, September 16, 2007 on blogspotWe know him as our beloved and incredibly kind Emmanuel, or Ema for short. About 18 years ago though, (he doesn't know his true age) he was call...
Posted by BaobabHome on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:47:00 PST