Tarime Goodwill Foundation

Dr. Hudson Winani, M.D., started the Tarime Goodwill Foundation (TGF) to address the unmet health needs of the Tarime District in the Mara Region of Tanzania. Most of the population of Tarime lives in rural areas where poverty is visible in many forms: lack of access to health care and education, malnutrition, and lack of access to transportation. Only 30–40% of children in the district have access to immunizations.

The district has two hospitals, serving a population of some 480,000 people. The government-run Bomani Hospital has five or six doctors, most of whom are trained in Dar es Salaam. The other hospital is the Tarime Goodwill Hospital, set up by Dr. Winani and operated by Dr. Harun o'Maitarya, six clinical officers and fifteen nurses, and Magoto Health Centre.

The mission of the Tarime Goodwill Foundation and its health services program is to provide comprehensive, curative, and preventive community-based medical health and education in the Tarime District. The Tarime Goodwill Hospital has 38 beds, an outpatient and casualty department, and two dispensaries. The TGF Health Services program treats 120,000 people each year. Malaria, upper respiratory infections, gastroenteritis, and HIV/AIDS are the most prevalent health conditions being treated.

The Tarime Goodwill Foundation and its education services program sponsor more than fifteen students from the Tarime district, most in secondary schools and others in the university. TGF Education Service owns a secondary school in the Tarime district.

TGF provides free services to orphans, low-income families, disadvantaged individuals and groups, and HIV/AIDS patients. TGF receives assistance from the Peter Hewitt Care for Africa Foundation in Australia, Direct Relief based in California, U.S.A., and other international aid organizations.