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LIA Chemical-Free Farm & Piggery

Name: LIA Chemical-Free Farm & Piggery
Address: P. o. box 2019, Moshi, P.O.BOX2019,MOSHI,TANZANIA, TZ
Telephone: +255 787378058

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Chemical-Free Farm and Piggery The Torchbearer Co. For more information regarding the Torchbearer Co. Ltd and its services, please visit www.torch-bearer.com.

Ltd is a Travel and Leisure company located on the lush foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro in Boma Ng'ombe, Hai - midway between Moshi and Kilimanjaro International Airport. We are located just 20 minutes from Kilimanjaro International Airport, along the Arusha-Moshi Road in Boma Ng’ombe. The company provides accommodations and holiday services to must see destinations across the country, ranking from

cultural tourism, national parks safaris, and beaches. Whether dining at our restaurant, staying in our accommodations, scaling Africa's highest peak, or going on safari with us, we want you to know that all proceeds from our organized tours, excursions and accommodations go towards much needed funding for the Light in Africa Children’s Village, which cares for over 250 children and provides nutritional and medical outreach to rural villages. With Torchbearer Co Ltd, you are promised adventure, excitement and a little bit of edge: so before you book your safari or hotel, consider booking through Torchbearer to ensure your holiday dollars directly benefit the communities you are enjoying. For inquiries, email us on [email protected], and for reservations please call us on +255 78 805 9913.

05/03/2024

JANUARY UPDATE – 2024
ABHOR THAT WHICH IS EVIL, CLEAVE TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD. Romans 12:9

Dearest Friends of Light in Africa Children’s Homes,
We have started the New Year with an unprecedented number of new children being admitted into our care. From the police bringing two children who were abandoned at the side of a road, to 6 more being brought in by the social welfare dept., plus twin boys of 19 months. This has resulted in two of our homes being filled to capacity, and the search is now on for two more rented homes for our children, and more certificated staff. The carpenter is being kept busy making 11 new beds & cots. We have well over 150 children now in full-time care. LIA can only approach these new demands due to all of your generosity in giving funds for these precious children. Thank you.
Angel, the little girl from Iringa with Sickle Cell Anemia has just received medical treatment for her organs which are sadly being affected. Little John, the boy with large face tumor, does not have cancer according to his biopsy. Treatment by injections had to be delayed due to a low blood count and his malnutrition. He returns for treatment in 3 weeks.
Stella – a little Maasai disabled child whom we have cared for 10 years, died this month. Our staff are feeling particularly saddened by this event as they feel her loss. For me, I know she is now without pain or distress smiling into the face of Jesus.

THE KIBIONI SCHOOL PROJECT:
It is always a delight for me when we welcome returning volunteers to LIA. Paul, who visited last year with Tegan and did an awesome project, brought along for the ride this time Daniel & Michael who all work for Ultra Furnishings in the UK.
We have had problems with the well as twice huge boulders have stopped the workers finding the water so desperately needed. A dynamite charge is going to be placed to blow the huge boulder which should allow the water to flow. Until these problems have been resolved, the Maasai mamas have had long exhausting journeys to the river to bring extra water for the kitchen build. The 5,000-litre poly-tank which will hold the clean water for the school children is already on the site. The roof is now on the kitchen, and the windows and the security of the site is next.
And now for some text and photos from the guys about their volunteering experience helping to demolish the old school kitchen…….and the walls came tumbling down…..

TANZANIA VISIT: January 13-23, 2024
Tanzania… what a place, what a country, what a people, what an experience! From swimming in idyllic pools to knocking down an old “kitchen” ready for the building of the new one, to camping in the Tanzanian bush. I have had the absolute best experience of my life so far and I truly believe everyone should go help Light in Africa Children’s Homes. Just from the 10 days I spent there I have too many stories to include here.
Seeing all the children’s homes really puts things into perspective how lucky we are. Life really is a lottery, but with the help of LIA those unlucky enough not to be born in a well-developed country with well-established health care systems and abundance of food, they can live a happy life and not need to worry about where their next meal will come from or when if they could see a doctor.
Mama Lynn is a force to be reckoned with and if she makes a promise, she will see it through at all costs. The other mamas, Shazma & Gudilla who are just as strong, have made the experience and it was amazing to see how they always put the charity first and do all the can to help the needs of the children. Special ‘shout out’ to Moses, the chef extraordinaire, who provided much enjoyment always coming up with some challenge or other in the downtime we had.
It was a special experience, and I WILL at some point in my life return to further help out this brilliant charity.
PS.. Now I have seen the pure size and scale of Mt. Kilimanjaro I definitely want to climb that one. ….Paul, Daniel & Michael

23/12/2023

CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS

Based on the plains of Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, East Africa, in a private, secluded, secured area by the side of a river lies LIA’s Chemical-Free Farm and Piggery.
The Farm contributes to the raising of pigs and supports food for five of LIA’s Children’s Homes by growing Chemical-Free food for over 140 children in full-time care. We are offering a unique practical experience to get involved in our farm work and to learn how life stock is cared for and raised. No experience is necessary, as you work alongside our staff as they care for the many piglets that are born each month in our environmentally friendly farm where the care and wellbeing of our animals is our paramount concern.
To ensure our animals receive the right daily dietary food, we are planting many seeds and trees in this wonderful warm / hot climate where yearly there is no snow, ice or frost which allows for extended growing seasons. Banana trees grow in abundance, maize, pumpkin, peanuts, (the pigs receive the green leaves and the children get to eat the peanuts!) a good addition to their diets. Spinach, watermelons, eggplant, pineapples, and all salad stuffs are just some of the foods that we grow on our ten acre site with perma-culture principles.
WHAT WE CAN OFFER … A practical learning experience like no other… an opportunity to be part of a working farm in a developing country… an opportunity to visit LIA’s 5 children’s homes and meet the children.
For 20 years we have supported the local Maasai tribes with medical, food support, and education. As a member of our team you can have the option to visit our work in progress as we dig a well for water and lay the foundations for a new project to teach the local school children how to live sustainably in remote areas in the bushlands and grow crops and learn animal husbandry.
Our quality accommodation, with three meals per day, is provided by our resident Chef who can provide for dietary requirements. Only ten places per month are being offered. A fee of $50.00 secures your accommodation and includes pick-up and return to Kilimanjaro International Airport which is just 17 kilometres away. On receipt of the booking fee, a package of information will be forwarded with examples of the program and daily chores. The daily fee is a very reasonable placed at $50.00 per day or approx. £40.00 sterling. These funds help to support the 5 children’ homes.
Families and people with limited disabilities are most welcome. A free pair of wellington boots and overalls will be provided for each guest. Youths join our program to learn life and survival skills.
EXTRA… Having lived in the area for many years we know the best places to visit. If you would like to ‘add on’ places to visit after your volunteer placement we know all the best safari companies to make your booking with.
1. Visit a National Park like Manyara who boast tree climbing lions. or the Serengeti, famous for its Wildebeest migration, or Ngorongoro Creator,
2. A picnic and swim at the Hot Springs
3. Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro which can be viewed from your doorstep on a cloudless day.

For further information please contact [email protected]

Thank you.

14/12/2023

NOVEMBER UPDATE 2023
Sometimes, we become so busy in our daily lives that we forget to smell the salty sea!

Dearest friends of Light in Africa Children’s Homes.
It was raining quite heavily, and whilst out shopping I received a call from a caregiver that a 40 ft security wall has collapsed into a river. “What river?” I ask astounded. “We don’t have a river near the house.” “We do now!” replied the carer, and the line went dead. The first photo shows the collapsed wall and the surging new river. That night water started to drip through into the children’s bedroom from the flat roof of the house that we had rented for seven months. Three days later the second bedroom also had water pouring through. It was time to evacuate before the roof collapsed. I tore up the two-year contract in disgust that we had been rented a sub-standard house that the Landlord knew very well of all its serious problems.
But first…. to answer some of the questions that I have been asked about my month-long trip.
Q. Was it very uncomfortable for you in a tent at your age?!!! This was a two-edge sword. Yes, I did have an aching back in the mornings, but I would suggest that you all throw away your gym tickets and go camping, as I was really so much fitter on my return to our homes with crawling in and out of the tent and using muscles I had forgotten I had.
Q. What was your happiest memory of the safari? Undoubtedly, when Plum Pudding agreed to be piggy- packed on Mo’s back in the pool. It was sheer joy after all the trauma he had experienced from being thrown into the deep end of a swimming pool. He arrived home desolate and very upset when my other children vied for position to tell me all what had happened at the pool. He changed from his school uniform and fell asleep on his bed. On awakening he came to tell me that Jesus had sat on his bed and said “he had to hold his hand like this (he demonstrated to me) and that Jesus had said, not to be afraid”……what a loving experience from a loving God.
Q. What was the worst thing?
A. Looking so forward to eating a chicken pizza only to find the base had mushed carrots instead of tomato, and finding two small pieces of chicken, and being so hungry I ate it, complaining at every mouthful of how ‘horrible’ it was.
B. The second was ‘liquid’ brown water coming from the shower head at the cheapest hotel that we stayed in.
C. The third was drinking a ‘doctored’ watermelon juice and not leaving the hotel until the effects had worn off.
Q. Would I do the trip again? Sure I would! What is a little discomfort if it means 200 + school children have clean drinking water, and the Maasai mamas don’t have to walk 8 hours a day to fetch contaminated water from the river. From the trip we have raised sufficient funds to dig a well for them so their cattle won’t then die in a drought. Definitely a positive. Also, I was impressed that the Maasai leadership had a Lawyer write a letter to government leaders to say ‘how can they expect a 7-year-old child to walk 30 kilometres a day? They need a hostel for the children, or they have to break the law and not send the children to school. Impressive.

And now for the update on the three more serious cases we brought to the hospital in Dar for medical treatment. Angel, shown with her father, was found to be suffering from Malaria and undiagnosed Sickle Cell Anaemia—a very serious condition. She is now on a monitoring program for this illness and living under LIA care--another life saved. Jackson’s heel was on the front of his foot. He has had three plaster casts on and off and an operation to straighten his foot. Tumaini was the young girl that I believed God wanted me to help. When she was one year old someone poked a stick in her eye, and for fourteen years she never received any medical intervention. She was taken to the surgical theatre and two surgeons for one hour tried to make a pin hole through the muscle that had thickened and covered her eye. Sadly, the operation failed, and the surgeons could do no more. But……. Jesus the great healer has plans to heal this child’s sight. Everyday our children and I are praying for Tumaini’s sight to be restored. We believe in prevailing prayer. Will you join us ?

When the group of Maasai saw the Indian Ocean for the first time there were “shrieks” of delight and amazement. The following day they came to the hospital carrying 4-liter empty containers, (where they found them, I have no idea) and Moses was ‘urged’ to stop the car to allow them to fill them. It was really something to see this group of Maasai, shuka’s ( material) flying in the wind, running down the beach and straight into the sea. It was so thrilling for them. We take so much for granted we sometimes forget to smell the wonderful smell of the salty sea. On our return from six weeks of hospital appointments, I am given the request from a desperate father to help his 4-year-old daughter. The little girl has been diagnosed with cancer and is desperate for an operation. Funds from the matching donation will help this little girl receive the operation that she desperately requires. Thank you.
In March 2024 we are going to open up our farm and piggery to volunteers who wish to learn farming life-skills. These volunteer places are limited to 10 per month, and the volunteers will work beside our staff and trainees on life-skill and survival training. Families are most welcome.
Thank you, dear friends. May your Christmas time be full of love, joy, and happiness as we celebrate the birth of our Savior. Remember: The best is yet to come.
Mama Lynn - staff and children of Light in Africa’s Children’s Homes.

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P.O.BOX2019,MOSHI,TANZANIA

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