Imara Ministries Foundation Business Summary

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Imara Ministries FoundationBusiness Summary
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Vision Statement
Vision Statement

• To see the church in Tanzania strengthened,
  enabled and equipped through knowledge and
  resources to be able to influence their
  communities to be more life-giving and
  needs-meeting.

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What is Imara?

• It is a Christian non-profit ministry
  organization, whose aims and mission is focused
  on holistic community transformational
  development
• It meets its objectives through tailored
  strategies to each of its partner projects and
  communities.

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Imaras locations Imara has project sites
and seminars through the NE part of Tanzania.
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Aims/objectives

• People living with HIV/AIDS Palliative Care and
  Education
• Teaching AIDS awareness through church-organized
  seminars
• Support and build homes for widows and orphans
  of AIDS epidemic
• Water and agriculture projects
• Build schools to help affected orphan children
  get quality education

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1. Services / Education

• Education for marginalized poorest of the poor,
  infected and affected children in rural areas
  such as
• Karanse Siha district, Kilimanjaro region
• Mwika Hope Foundation, Kilimanjaro region
• Likamba Arumeru District, Arusha region
• Mairowa Longido district, Arusha region
• Kondoa Kondoa district, Dodoma region

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1. Services / HIV/AIDS

• Home-based care for people living with HIV/AIDS
• HIV/AIDS education and training of
  village-based volunteers
• Micro-enterprize business for HIV/AIDS infected
  and affected adults

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1. Services / Mercy

• Provision of safe water sources for communities
  in which we are involved (Karansi, Mairowa)
• Introduction of agriculture methods to our
  purely pastoral communities
• Community-wide health programs aimed at children
  in our communities
• Capacity-building for staff and community
  leaders in all areas of operation

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2. Organization / Partners

• Poor Uneducated Children Ministry Siha
• Mairowa Community Dev. Project Longido
• Kondoa Christian Dev. Church Kondoa
• Mwika Hope Foundation Marangu
• Likamba TAG Church Monduli

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2. Organization / Departments

• Mercy Community development and education
• HIV/AIDS Training, education, and palliative
  care
• Evangelism Spreading the word of Christ
• Leadership Bringing self-sustaining training to
  villages
• Finance Administration Leading/organizing
  Imara

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3. Support / Sources

• Scottsdale Bible Church Arizona, USA
• Kondoa school, community project established
• Mairowa childrens, water, agriculture projects
• Perimeter Church Atlanta, USA
• Karansi school, sponsorship, widows projects
• Teacher support for Imara schools

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3. Support / 2006 Expenditures
7,600 Likamba 137,000 Kondoa 93,000 Mairowa
80,000 Karansi 5,000 Mwika 17,000 HIV/AIDS
47,000 Seminars 78,000 Administration 465,000
Total expenditures (US dollars)
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3. Support / 2006 Income
320,000 Scottsdale Bible Church 210,000 Perime
ter Church 15,000 Mission Oz 10,000 Other
income 555,000 Total income (US dollars)
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4. Goals / Capacity building

• Strengthening leaders within all our projects
  through seminars and workshops
• Transform communities from evil beliefs into
  godly ones through trainings on biblical world
  view
• Women empowerment Seminars, encouraging women
  as leaders, being active in the church, balanced
  diet, family issues, micro-enterprise
• Seminars on biblical views on marriage

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4. Goals / Education

• Establishing primary, secondary, and vocational
  schools to assist needy children with ultimate
  aim to be able to support themselves as adults
• Providing tutorial classes, school fees,
  uniforms, school supplies, and good buildings to
  meet the goal mentioned above
• Starting a primary school in all our projects by
  2009, beginning with 60 children for each P1 class

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4. Goals / Micro-business

• By 2020 reducing dependency among villagers by
  75 percent
• Providing initial capital in form of chickens,
  beads, pigs, dairy cows, goats, vegetable
  gardens, and farming implements
• By 2020 20 percent of the families in our
  involved communities will be involved in
  income-generating businesses.

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4. Goals / Health Water

• Educating children about nutrition, balanced
  diet, hygiene, and having a positive self-concept
• Giving children instructions in environmental
  care
• Providing children with regular check-ups
• Drilling wells in our semi-arid communities.
• Providing water for irrigation or cultivation of
  food and cash crops

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4. Goals / Agriculture

• Introducing agriculture projects by starting
  demonstration gardens on small-scale basis to
  encourage villagers to replicate at home
• 80 percent of food used in Child Sponsorship
  Feeding Program to be locally produced
• Cash crops such as avocado and fruit trees to be
  introduced to some of the communities through the
  demonstration gardens

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4. Goals / HIV/AIDS

• Sensitization and awareness training to continue
  Continue to provide health services for PLWHA
• Nutritional supplements for infected children
• Livelyhood support for families of infected
  children, such as provision of cows
• Biblical counseling for infected families
• Education on helping infected family members
• Housing for orphans of HIV/AIDS

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4. Goals / Child sponsorship

• Partner with communities to develop holistic
  ministries for Most Vulnerable Children (MVCs)
• Build and fund quality education and health
• Meet their dietary and sanitary needs
• Give spiritual nurture based on biblical world
  view
• Teach livelihood skills
• Design social activities for MVCs to grow toward
  being responsible members of their communities

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5. Critical risks / Potential problems

• Donor support being reduced
• Our total dependency on overseas funds to
  support our work in Tanzania

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5. Critical risks / Obstacles Challenges

• Control of assets and operations belongs to the
  local church in the partnership
• Holistic mission is not readily understood by
  clergy. Dualism is very ingrained.
• Dilemma Should an economic solution be used for
  a biblical problem?
• Church has little experience in business matters
• Limited office space

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5. Critical risks / Potential solutions

• Overcome total dependency on overseas funds by
  starting small businesses (tourism, avocado
  factory, welding, construction, etc.)
• Church validation of income-generating
  activities by showing their benefit for the
  communities
• Emphasis on integration, accountability, team
  building, and transparency.
• Training and demonstrations for use of locally
  available resources to support church projects