Projects to support local people.
The Diocese is involved in various projects to help the local community to fight poverty and live full and fruitful lives.
St Monica’s Nursery School has 172 children from different religions. It has acquired a bus to transport the children and Friends of Zanzibar has been raising funds to pay for this.
Other projects include:
- St. Monica’s Hostel and St. Monica’s Tours, serving tourists with the revenue supporting the work of the Diocese.
- Kiungani, the site for the proposed new Diocesan HQ, where the church hopes to build a health centre, a new school and centre for evangelism and the restoration of the former chapel for prayer and worship.
- Tours of the former slave market, with revenue providing much needed income to support the four parishes.
- Heifer Project, open to all regardless of faith and supplying free dairy cows or goats to help people with low incomes.
- Education Project, to sponsor secondary school students for quality education on mainland Tanzania.
- HIV/AIDS project, raising awareness and providing support to people with HIV/AIDS.
- Community projects, to fight poverty through the provision of livestock and vegetable products and environmental programmes.
- St Barnabas’ Nursery School, with 21 students from the local community.