Ndifo Community Development Foundation
Education · Health · Environment
“Building brighter futures for Tanzania’s children,
one school at a time.”
This year, together with our community partners and donors, we made meaningful progress across Ndifo and neighboring villages in Tanzania.
Rehabilitated 11 learning spaces — fresh walls, safe floors, new desks — for a better and brighter future for 680 children.
Built clean, safe sanitation facilities including girls’ changing rooms — protecting children’s health and keeping girls in school.
East African artist Samuel Kinyua painted a gorgeous mural and taught children their first art classes.
Provided meals and nutrition support via our new kitchen — serving 680 children every single day.
500+ community members now have water near their homes. Some have electricity for the first time.
From the 2025 Form 990 — calendar year ended December 31, 2025
87% of all spending goes directly to mission programs. Best-practice benchmark is 65–75%. We exceed it significantly.
Transforming a dilapidated school near Arusha into a clean, safe, dignified learning space for 680 children who have the very least.
Bringing fresh water to a rural community of 500+ residents just outside Arusha — ending exhausting daily water treks for mothers and children.
Our $140,000 program budget for the coming year will complete the school transformation and expand our reach.
The Porridge Program ensures no child leaves school hungry. 9 months × $2,500/month.
$22,500Solar panels for electricity and internet connection. Computers donated by business technology recycling programs.
$12,000Egg & milk supply for the school. Introduces animal husbandry to children of a nomadic community.
$10,000Teaching skills, school operations & hygiene — provided by partner organizations and government institutions.
$1,500A covered dining pavilion where children can eat in all weather and gather as a community.
$50,000*Upgrading teacher workspace to support better instruction and school administration.
$5,000*Assembly Hall contingent on donor pledge
Dear Friends, Partners, & Supporters,
It is my honor to share with you the Ndifo Community Development Foundation’s Annual Report for the year ended June 30, 2025. Within these pages, you will see the story of how compassion, partnership, and perseverance are reshaping lives in Tanzania.
My own journey with this work began not as a chairman, but as a safari guide in the fields near Arusha. In 2022, while birdwatching, I came upon Likamba Primary School. What I found there was heartbreaking: children packed five to a desk built for two, classrooms with crumbling floors, leaking roofs, and broken windows. Yet even in those conditions, the children’s faces shone with determination to learn. I could not look away.
Thanks to your generosity, Likamba Primary School is no longer the forgotten place I first stumbled upon. Today, over 680 children benefit from refurbished classrooms, a secure schoolyard, and — perhaps most importantly — a working kitchen that serves meals each day. Education, health, and community dignity are now taking root where despair once lived.
I want to thank each of you — our donors, volunteers, partners, and friends. You are part of this story. Your gifts are not only repairing buildings, they are restoring dignity. Together, we have already climbed great mountains. And together, we will climb the ones still ahead.
With sincere thanks & warm regards, asante sana,
The Roaringlion Fund — $10,000 donation completing the school kitchen.
Hen House Donors — Audrey Yang (who matched all initial donations), Barbara VanEvery, Joanne Wong, Gordon McKemie, Jan Paul Roodbol, Austin Jasienski.
J|Connelly & Hunt & Fish Club NYC — venue for our fundraising gala.
Tracey & Jerry Vainisi · Allyson Pfeifer · Morris Chen · Katherine & Britt Joyce · Brigid Flanagan · Rudolph Garza · Steven Hopchick · Rick Lugash · Shilpa Akella · Hunter Downs · Cris Santa Ana · Nick Dalgety · Jack O’Brien · Rob Stanbrook · Scott Thomson · Tenny Grigorian · Youse Gula
Just as we guide visitors through Tanzania’s wildlife, we now guide communities — and donors like you — toward hope, dignity, and lasting change.
Visit ndifo.org to give directly or purchase a wildlife print by Chairman Steven Ngowi. All proceeds go to NCDF.
Marketing, social media, legal, accounting, teaching, or providing books & goods for the school.
Purchase stunning wildlife photography by Steven Ngowi at ndifo.org/shop. 100% of proceeds fund our work.
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