Announcement

In 2005 AKIN entered into an agreement with the Pentecostal Church of Sweden under which it agreed to equip and furnish the Varberg Home of Peace (VHP) Orphanage in Nzega, Tabora Region, Tanzania, and to support it for a minimum of three years.

Having fulfilled its obligations under this agreement the Trustees of AKIN have decided to now focus their attention on securing the futures of the 86 children it is supporting in the region through its Child Sponsorship Program.

Accordingly, AKIN has withdrawn from the VHP project, which has finally come to fruition and realised the dream of its founder, Mr Kent Bladh.

The Trustees and the team members of AKIN wish Kent and the VHP all the success for the future. 

A notice has been issued to Kent stating that, if at some point in the future it is able to do so, the Trustees will be more than happy for AKIN to resume supporting the VHP Project and in particular to become involved in the proposed expansion plans for the Orphanage.

Iduguta Leprosy Camp

During their first trip to Tanzania in 2005, Les Roberts and Leslie Bruzon connected with Joram William Lilakoma, a local businessman and philanthropist, who took them to visit Iduguta Leprosy Camp a short distance from Nzega.  What they saw beggard belief.  There were about 300 people, including 50 children, living in the camp in abject poverty and inhumane conditions.  They were ostracised by their fellow Tanzanians and all but forgotten about by the outside world.

The people existed in a cluster of small, damp and hot mud huts, certainly not something to help their health condition!  Most had no mattresses to sleep on or mosquito nets, so malaria was a big problem and added to their misery.

Les and Leslie were so moved that they instantly decided to support this cause, which also deeply affected Kent Bladh.  It was decided that AKIN would support the 50 children living there and that Kent would raise money in Sweden to improve the sanitary conditions at the camp – and the strategy worked!

Today, Iduguta has new toilet and kitchen facilities, and a chicken coup, thanks to the generosity of the people of the town of Varberg in Sweden, and the 50 children now each have food to eat, medical treatment, clothes and school uniforms, mattresses and mosquito nets.

Another charity has installed a water pump so the villagers no longer have to walk miles to fetch fresh drinking water.