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Education
Schools without doors, windows or roofs. Students in extreme heat and rain. Uniforms unaffordable for many families.
Challenges in Zanzibar
The realities behind the visit.
Behind the postcards: classrooms without roofs, children selling handcrafts instead of attending school, families surviving on a single meal a day, and heart conditions that go untreated for want of equipment.
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Health
Children with heart conditions and limited access to diagnostics. Our current focus: raising funds for an echo machine.
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Daily life
One meal a day for many children. Shortages of sanitary products, stationery and basic clothing.
Respectful storytelling
Challenge is not the whole story.
Bigger Heart’s work is grounded in relationship: children and young people in Zanzibar, supporters in Wales, and a long-running cultural exchange between students. The aim is support without reducing a community to hardship.
See Amazing ZanzibarSupport us today
Support health, education and well-being work in Zanzibar.
We are currently collecting sanitary products and focusing on health. We are trying to raise money to get an echo machine, and we accept donations such as clothing, stationery, toys and other items in good condition.