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TULEENI FOOTBALL ACADEMY PLAYERS PROFILE CLUB NAME: TULEENI FOOTBALL ACADEMY 2022 NUMBER OF PLAYER: 16 NAME: NICKSON S GENDER: MALE AGE: 14 HEIGHT: 5.0ft WEIGHT:  38 POSITION: 07  RIGHT WING ROLE MODEL: KAGERE STORY: I started playing football longtime ago & I believe in my talent and dreaming to become a big footballer. NAME: JACKSON RITTE GENDER: MALE AGE: 13...Read More

Nyhetsbrev Tuleeni desember 2020 «Koronaen» har gitt oss alle et veldig annerledes år siden mars 2020. Det tok litt tid å forstå omfanget av pandemien, men også for Tuleeni Orphans Home ble konsekvensene store. Epidemien rammet turistsektoren stort, noe som har gitt voldsomme økonomiske konsekvenser for Tanzania. Mange mennesker har mistet inntektsgrunnlaget sitt, og fattigdommen øker. Som jeg har nevnt...Read More

The solidarity expedition to Kilimanjaro sponsored by MARNYS® reaches Gilman’s Point at 5,695m, just under 150m from the top of Africa, and helps local communities in Tanzania. The athletes of the ‘Kilimanjaro Solidarity Challenge 2020’ who set off in early March intending to reach the summit of the mythical African mountain, have finished their adventure in which they have been...Read More

Nyhetsbrev desember 2019 2019 har vært et utfordrende år for meg personlig. Det er vanskelig å forstå, og vondt å vite at Peter ikke lenger er her. Som de fleste vet døde han 3.juli i år. Men gjennom alle de vanskelige månedene har Tuleeni alltid vært levende for oss, og som mange vet ønsket Peter at hans død kunne bety...Read More

PORTAGE — Portage Northern High School’s Be There/Interact and Student Senate groups will organize the fourth annual schoolwide $2-for-Tuleeni fundraiser during the week of April 25. Tuleeni, which means “care for us” in Swahili, is an orphanage in rural Rau, Tanzania. In the summer of 2007, P-Northern graduate Josh Kieser traveled to the orphanage with an international volunteer organization called...Read More

Morning: The Tuleeni Orphans Home After yesterday’s extraordinary outing with the Maasai, my Discover Corps group needs a laid-back morning. Following breakfast, however, we walk to the Tuleeni Orphans Home, just a short distance away. The Word Tuleeni is a Swahili word that means ‘care for us’. First, we stop at the local convenience store (which we discover doubles as...Read More

Miles Recipient Volunteers at Tuleeni Orphanage Fay Grindrod reached out to our sister site, Miledonor.com, last year asking for help in securing flights to Tanzania so that she could continue her volunteer work there with Cross-Cultural Solutions. She explained that she supports a 12-year old boy who had never been able to go to school until she stepped in to...Read More

“I was consistently and truly struck by [the orphans’] desire and gratitude for the chance to learn,” says Josh Kieser, a former student at Portage Northern. After graduating from Northern, Kieser participated in a summer program where he had the opportunity to help the Tuleeni orphanage in Tanzania. Upon his return, Kieser came back to Portage Northern with the hope...Read More

David with a child from the Upendo orphanage My husband, David and I were fortunate enough to travel to Tanzania in the summer of 2009 to volunteer at several orphanages. We decided to volunteer in Tanzania as David planned on climbing Kilimanjaro, and I had always wanted to volunteer my time, love and efforts somewhere abroad. After months of research...Read More