Providing Milk for Orphaned Babies

When a baby loses their most precious person their Mum, for many babies in poorer communities in Tanzania the baby is left unable to get the milk they need. Imagine going into a shop and 1 tin of formula costs your entire week's salary. Imagine then knowing the baby needs TWO tins a week to get the nutrition they need. 

1 week is £14 

1 month £ 56 

To feed 1 baby until they are weaned is £460 

As of 2024, Pamoja Leo has helped almost 200 babies stay in loving families and out of orphanages.

Pamoja Leo helps babies to find or stay with a family; Grandma, Aunties, Neighbors or Foster Mums. Often Aunties or Grandmas come to us desperate holding a 1-month old baby who is quickly losing weight. Many faced with the choice give my baby to an orphanage or watching them suffer.  

Those choices are not good enough. Women need support, and babies need families.  

Pamoja Leo exists to provide services to families so that no baby has to grow up in an orphanage. Not being able to feed their baby is the number 1 reason a baby ends up in an orphanage, by creating services to feed babies we ensure that babies grow up in families.  

This is why we founded the baby project 8 years ago!  

Since then we have:

 - provided formula milk to babies with no living mother to live with extended family.

 - Provide breastfeeding support to biological Mums with supply issues. 

- Trained over 100 local foster families to care for abused or abandoned babies.  

When incredible Women step in to take on the role of Mum we believe we should do all it takes to ensure they have the resources they need to be the best Mama possible. We do not want babies to be abandoned and made to be orphans again all because they could not afford the milk. We also know how babies suffer if their family raises them without access to proper nutrition - no baby should know hunger.   

Your donations will allow us to buy enough milk to help us through the next year So we can keep on saving lives and changing the system.