Samaritan Village Orphanage and
Medical Clinic
Rescuing Orphaned, Abandoned and Trafficked Children in Tanzania, Africa
ABOUT US
Our History - The Need​
Each year in Africa, hundreds of children are orphaned and abandoned. Some are left in garbage cans while others are left by the side of a road or in an abandoned building. At other times they may be left at the hospital or with a neighbor or even a stranger. The need to rescue these children and provide them with a home is why Samaritan Village Orphanage exists.
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Birthed from a Tragic Need​
The founder of this incredible work is Elizabeth Mwalozi, a native of Tanzania, Africa. While a high school student at a Christian boarding school in Tanzania, Elizabeth helped care for infants in a nearby hospital. These babies were either left at the hospital after birth are brought there as infants by parents who were unable to care for them.
The number of babies being taken to the hospital was so overwhelming that the facility could only provide care for them until the age of three or four. After that, the children were be given back their parents or relatives--relatives who themselves were often in poverty and near starvation.
Tragically, most of the infants died soon after being released to their families. Elizabeth was a witness to this horror.
God placed a burden for these children on Elizabeth’s heart. She decided to do her utmost to establish a permanent orphanage in Tanzania for abandoned and orphaned babies.
Elizabeth came to America in 1964 to further her education. She received her BA degree from San Francisco State University in California. She became a teacher and later married. She and her husband moved to Marysville, California where she taught schools and her husband became a professor at Yuba Community College.
Samaritan Village Begins
Elizabeth often shared her story, but it wasn't until she shared it with a group of Christians in Yuba City, California in the early 1990's, that something was done to rescue these children. Thanks to the prayers and dedication of that small group of volunteers and another like-minded group of Believers in Arusha Tanzania, Samaritan Village Orphanage was created in 1992 and began caring for children in 2000.
Our Mission
Samaritan Village exists for the purpose of implementing the Great Commission of Jesus Christ to go into all the world and preach the gospel, by providing physical, mental and spiritual care for orphaned children in Tanzania, Africa.
Our Vision
Samaritan Village is a private, non-profit organization established and run by volunteers to develop, expand and maintain a Christian orphanage to care for abandoned and orphaned children.
Our Goal
We work to reduce the number of abandoned children and the deaths of children in Tanzania by providing care for those whose parents have either died or abandoned them and who have no relatives responsible for their care. This is accomplished by providing a safe and stable Christian home environment where children are provided food, shelter, clothing, education
USA Board
Founder: Elizabeth Mwalozi Mswai
Chairman: Larry Todd
Vice-Chairman: Pastor Jim Clark Secretary: Rosalyn Watson
Treasurer: Joan Hackney
Sponsorship: Martha Green
Events Coordinator: Richard Hackney
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Board Members: Anne Hamilton, Lela Jenkins, Mary Jane Salvato, Rita Collins, Marcella Westhouse
Tanzania Board
Founder: Elizabeth Mwalozi Mswai
Chairman: Monica Kwayu
Treasurer: Eliniradhi Mswai
Secretary: Josephat Mmanyi
Board Members: Peter Malulu, Lilian Washokera,
Kaninsia Sist, Felicita Mangalu
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Our Mission
Samaritan Village exists for the purpose of implementing the Great Commission of Jesus Christ to go into all the world and preach the gospel, by providing physical, mental and spiritual care for abandoned, orphaned and trafficked children in Tanzania, Africa.
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Our Vision
Samaritan Village is a private, non-profit organization in the US and a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Tanzania. The orphanage was established and is run by volunteers with the purpose of to developing, expanding and maintaining a Christian orphanage to care for abandoned, orphaned and trafficked children.
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Our Goal
We work to reduce the number of abandoned children as well as the deaths of children that often results from their abandonment in Tanzania. We do this by providing care for those whose parents have either died or abandoned them and who have no relatives responsible for their care or who have been rescued from human trafficking.
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Our first goal is to find family who to adopt the new child. For those children who are not adopted, Samaritan Village provides a safe and stable Christian home environment with lots of mamas and care givers, even more brothers and sisters and a father named Josephat (Our Director).
Samaritan Village Today
With its goal of rescuing abandoned and trafficked children and giving them a permanent home clearly in mind, the first objective has always been to find families who will adopt these children. Since its beginning in a small house in Arusha, Samaritan Village has rescued over three hundred children. The majority have been adopted by families from Tanzania and three other countries around the world. Those children who have not been adopted have been given a home at Samaritan Village so that through the Grace of God, these once abandoned children now have a place they call home and a family they call their own.
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Today, Samaritan Village is growing and currently cares for more than 60 children in a permanent residence with a 24 hour staff to care for them. The orphanage provides each child with nutritious food, clothing, health care and Christian education in a warm and loving Christian environment. Samaritan Village has its own newly remodeled chapel for daily worship and serves not only the children, but many members in the community as well.
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We just opened a three story medical clinic and dormitory in 2019 that serves many of the health needs of the children and the local community. The building also adds rooms for up to eighty more children. In addition, we have completed a new nursery that allows us to provide better care for babies brought to the orphanage with severe medical needs.
We also just completed a new Preschool for our children and children from the surrounding community. The school will feature three classrooms for children 3-5 years of age. The school will open in January 2025.
In addition, we completed a new pig house, a new cow barn/chicken coup (housing 500 laying chickens and 500 "broilers") and a new storage building. Our new office/meeting building was completed in 2022.
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Our Future
Samaritan Village is continuing to expand in order to rescue more children and meet the diverse needs of the those in the surrounding community. We are currently planning to build a 50 bed hospital to replace our current medical clinic. That will make the current building, where the medical clinic occupies the bottom floor, into a three story dorm for the older children. This building alone will provide rooms for over 100 children.
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