What is outreach anyway?
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about our outreach efforts. Kafika House has just turned 18, and, nearly two decades ago, I was going out to remote villages to find children living with disabilities – to tell families that we could treat them, and that a different future was possible.
In a country as vast as Tanzania, access to healthcare isn’t just about distance from hospitals.
It’s also about access to information: recognising a condition, realising it can be treated, and knowing where to go for help.
Without this, children remain at home – not because care isn’t available, but because it doesn’t seem attainable.
When we talk about our healing journey, it’s easy to think that it starts when a child arrives on our doorstep – but it actually begins long before.
Our outreach team spends weeks each year on the road, travelling countrywide to communities far from formal healthcare.
They speak in schools and community gathering places, sharing information about the conditions we treat and inviting families to bring forward any children we might be able to help.
When a child is identified, that’s just the first step.
From there, we support families with plans to get them to Kafika House.
If a child doesn’t arrive, we don’t assume the journey ends there. We check in, we keep the door open, and we do what we can to help make that next step possible.
In 2025, we reached 37,653 people across Tanzania.
Help us start more healing journeys.
Send our team to the remotest corners of Tanzania, where help is needed most. $1,600 keeps a vehicle running for a full year, and $3,500 puts fuel in the tank.
Every dollar you donate turns the wheels on our mission.
Next time, I’ll be talking about how our safari partners support our efforts – but in the meantime, thanks to Nomad Tanzania for these pics, which were from an outreach trip we did together to Ngorongoro.
With love,
Sarah