2025-04-14T15:23:32-07:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 364806201 AMANI FOUNDATION AMAN 6315223217 900 North Atherton Street State College PA 16803 Katharine Thompson Executive Director 6315223217 2025-03-18 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Katharine Thompson 900 North Atherton Street State College PA 16803 81562 0 X www.childrenofamani.org X 2015 PA The Amani Foundation is a US-based 501(c)3 charity that runs the Amani Children's Home in Baraka Village, Tanzania. Together, we provide full-time residential care to fifty children in our guardianship, as well as outreach programs to their families and community members. Our mission is to support at-risk children and youth by providing uninterrupted access to quality education, psychosocial healing from early childhood trauma, and sustainable food security for healthy growth and development. Since 2012, our Tanzanian team and site have provided a safe harbor for vulnerable children in our community, and since 2015, the Amani Foundation has partnered in this mission by providing funding development, administrative support, and capacity building. 6 6 0 22 0 0 44945 81562 0 0 0 0 0 0 44945 81562 25280 50541 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2808 352 28088 50893 16857 30669 16964 47633 0 0 16964 47633 The core mission of Amani is to aid under-served children in their academic endeavors, emotional development and physical wellbeing through full-time residential care. Amani Children's Home is a residential community center for children whose parents have abdicated custody in a climate of personal hardship or abuse. Our ultimate goal is to support families through educational empowerment, reunification with relatives, and holistic healing. The Amani Foundation is a US-based charity that, at the request of the children's home, provides managerial oversight and financial support. The Amani Foundation is the only legal affiliate of the children's home. 0 0 50541 81577 The Foundation provides financial support for the Amani Children's Home in Tanzania, Africa. Launched a Pilot Rotational Goat Project for Household Resilience In early 2024, we launched a pilot goat rotation program with 8 carefully selected families. Each household received training, veterinary support, and one healthy female goat, with a commitment to return offspring into a shared pool-enabling new families to join annually. This initiative responds to persistent food insecurity and economic instability in Monduli District, where over 60% of families face unpredictable income due to climate shocks. The program not only supplements household nutrition with milk and meat but creates the foundation for long-term, locally owned income generation. Sustained Educational Support for Up to 50 At-Risk Children We provided direct educational assistance-including tuition, books, uniforms, shoes, and safe transportation-for a cohort of up to 50 children living in extreme poverty or recently reunified from institutional care. These supports remove the economic barriers that most commonly prevent school enrollment and retention in our region. Tanzania's national data shows that financial hardship is the leading cause of primary and secondary school dropout (The Foundation for Tomorrow, 2022). Our wraparound model ensures not only academic access, but structured home visits, psychosocial support, and peer connection activities to stabilize children in school and home environments. Reunified Children with Safe, Supportive Families In line with global best practices and national Tanzanian priorities, we worked with district social welfare officers to safely transition children from institutional care back into family-based settings. Many children in orphanages-up to 80% globally-have at least one living parent or extended family member who could care for them with proper support (Better Care Network, 2021). Our reunification work included individualized family assessments, preparation workshops, parenting support, and regular post-placement check-ins. This effort reflects our strategic pivot away from institutional care and toward long-term family preservation. Delivered Community-Based Arts, Sports, and Wellness Programming Recognizing that healing from trauma and building resilience requires more than school support, we provided a series of arts, dance, and sports programs for children in our network. These creative outlets foster self-confidence, emotional expression, and peer bonding-particularly important for children with histories of separation, neglect, or instability. Sessions were held weekly and led by trained community mentors, providing structured enrichment and psychosocial value in a culturally relevant, joyful format. 0 0 0 50541 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 PA X X Katharine Thompson 6315223217 900 North Atherton Street State College PA 16803 X Katharine Thompson Executive Director 10 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 81562 0 81562 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 81562 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 50541 50541 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bank charges 352 0 352 0 50893 50541 352 0 16964 47633 0 0 0 0 16964 47633 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 16964 47633 16964 47633 16964 47633 30669 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 47850 62172 43117 44945 81577 279661 47850 62172 43117 44945 81577 279661 279661 47850 62172 43117 44945 81577 279661 1 1 0 0 X Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The Executive Director and Treasurer are responsible for filing this form, with oversight and input from the board of directors Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Board members turn in annual conflict of interests forms and code of ethics forms, which are reviewed by the board officers Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Governing documents and other information is stored internal to the organization and available upon emailed request.