Providing Milk for Orphaned Babies
£15,931.25
Raised
106
Donations
£20,000
Goal
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 March 2022, Pamoja Leo has helped 89 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 4 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.
Donor Wall28
Beverley | £28
Anastasia | 270.29 €
Claudia & Stefan | £100
Gracie | £14.77
Sarah Beale | £52.15
Rachel
This is the most incredible charity I’ve seen in my life. What a powerful thing to be able to do and something I’m ashamed to say didn’t cross my mind. But this is reality for so many tiny people and their families. This absolutely shouldn’t be a barrier for anyone. Nobody should have to make the heartbreaking decision to orphan a child because they simply cannot afford to feed them.
Shannon Sharman | £14
Great work for a very much needed cause
Gemma Wicks | £14
Amazing work! We need more charities like yours! X
Nadine | £14
Samantha | £56
Andrea Gough | £29.30
Great cause all mommas are amazing
Anonymous | £29.30
Fed is fed, regardless of whether it’s a boob or bottle delivering that vital milk. Supporting these ‘new’ mothers to keep the baby alive and well is a fantastic project.
Sarah Nadif | £42
Louise | £14
Thank you for raising awareness and for ensuring that all children can have the best start
Sinead Gilroy | £31.38
Anonymous | £14.77
Shardia Lowery | £14.77
Laura | £14.77
Sonia S | £56
Amazing what you are doing! I hope god watches over all these babies 🙏🏼
Jenna | £14
Thank you for helping to raise awareness and for enabling a platform for us to help these vulnerable babies. God bless them all.
Sarah Merrick | £50
With love from Cyprus
Jacqueline | £42
Got to hear about this through London Rock as part of the #givingtuesday double donation day.
Barry | £25
Sharon | £10
I live in the US but am a UK taxpayer and happy to donate to this wonderful cause. A friend in the UK sent me the link. These poor babies, abandoned by their mothers have the worse start in life.
Oliver Wood | £42
Great work all. From Matilda Rose
Hollie Edwin | £35
Georgina | £3
We were all little once and we all need that special someone to care! Happy to do my part!
Pamoja | £614
Transfer of funds raised from the Just Giving fundraising page.