Tarime Goodwill Foundation

The Tarime Goodwill Foundation (TGF) was started by Dr. Hudson Winani M.D. to address the unmet health needs of the Tarime District in the Mara Region of Tanzania. Most of the population of Tarime lives in rural areas where poverty is visible in all its many forms: lack of access to health care and education, malnutrition, and lack of access to transportation. Only 30-40% of children in the district have access to immunisations. There are only two hospitals in the district, serving a population of some 480,000 people. The government-run Bomani Hospital has five or six doctors, most of who are trained in Dar es Salaam. The other hospital is the Tarime Goodwill Hospital, set up by Dr. Winani and operated by himself and one nurse.

The mission of the Tarime Goodwill Foundation and its Health Services program is to provide comprehensive, curative, and preventative community-based medical health and education in Tarime District. The Tarime Goodwill Hospital has 34 beds, an out-patient and casualty department and two dispensaries. The TGF Health Services program treats 120,000 people each year. Malaria, upper respiratory infections, gastroenteritis and HIV/AIDS are the most prevalent health conditions being treated.

TGF provides free service to orphans, poor families, disadvantaged individuals and groups, and HIV/AIDS patients. TGF receives assistance from the Peter Hewitt Care for Africa Foundation in Australia, Direct Relief International based in California U.S.A., and other international aid organisations.