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Thanks to so many generous donations to our shopping list, some items are sold out. You can see all the fantastic items already provided to Kesho Leo on our sold items page. THANK YOU!

shopping list

Item						Total Cost / Contribution Required		Currently Needing...
In the personnel aisle… You can help Kesho Leo employ and train local staff to work alongside our volunteers. These workers help integrate Kesho Leo into the community and are well positioned to lead Kesho Leo’s programs into the future. The figures shown include all on-costs such as tax, superannuation equivalent (PPF) and leave allowances. Maybe you and your colleagues, families and friends can band together to provide a secure salary for a Tanzanian employee? Imagine that! Nurses for nurses? Teachers for teachers? Labourers for labourers? Also, if you'd prefer to donate a partial salary, options at checkout start at one week. Easy!
Tanzanian Social Welfare Outreach Worker (1 half-time salary and on-costs)						1 x $1,200 (per annum)		$2,100 Received Thank you!
Tanzanian Farm Worker (3 months’ salary and on-costs)						8 x $360 (2 staff per annum in 3 month blocks)		$840 Received! $2,040 still required
Employ and Train local staff						Every bit helps		$200 Received! Every bit helps!
Tanzanian Builders (3 months’ salary and on-costs)						8 x $360 (2 staff per annum in 3 month blocks)		8 x 3 months required
Askari training (annual)						1 x $350 (per annum)		1 required
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The Everyday Living aisle  Many of the things we take for granted are well beyond the reach of the wonderful Tanzanian community living in and around Kesho Leo. Our expert volunteer staff work with local Tanzanian health, social welfare and education organisations and staff to improve circumstances or vulnerable women, children and their families. While everything in the shopping list indirectly supports this work, here are some great ways to send your dollars straight to the people.
Pre-school scholarship places for local children						25 x $30 (per annum)		11 sold 14 more required
School supplies for Chekechea / Tuition						$10? $100? $683? You name it!		$790 received! Every bit helps!
Plant a Tree at Kesho Leo						50 x $10		3 sold 47 still required
Kesho Leo Community Outreach Fund						Every bit helps!		$4,220 RECEIVED Please keep it coming, every bit helps!
Families for Families sponsorship						$31 per month
Kesho Leo Kitty						Every bit helps!		$835 received Every bit helps!
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In the equipment aisle… If you like Big Box shops you’ll love our equipment aisle, where you can find a range of equipment for Kesho Leo to satisfy technology, sports, and hardware lovers alike! Items marked " * " can be purchased in Australia and taken over by visiting volunteers, so if you can directly donate these items we’d love to talk! (email shoppinglist@foodwatershelter.org.au). Other items need to be purchased locally in Tanzania.
Kesho Leo under 12s soccer team kit (uniforms, boots and balls)						$100 contributions		2 SOLD More contribuitons required
Notebook computers*						$1,300 each		1 SOLD 2 more required.
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If I had a hammer…  Kesho Leo’s award winning buildings are in place, and now that the mamas and children have been living on-site for a year, it’s time to make some improvements! Most of these items will involve hiring local Tanzanian labourers and builders, stretching your dollar further to benefit not only Kesho Leo but also injecting much-needed money and support into the local community.
Floor covering for Kesho Leo homes						4 x $55		2 SOLD 2 more required
Children’s playground						$100 contributions		4 SOLD more contributions available
Askari shelter/hut						1 x $450		$100 CONTRIBUTED! $350 still required
Safe Storage of Water Tanks						1 x $930		1 required
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Four legs good, two legs bad…  Kesho Leo’s hard working furry friends include goats, cows, chickens and pigs. Each plays an important role in the permaculture system at Kesho Leo, creating food and market produce to generate income for Kesho Leo (not to mention poo for our biogas fuel!). So back up your cyber ute and help out with a sound investment in live-stock!
Add a Chicken to Our Flock						50 x $10 per chicken		50 required
Chicken Coop Upgrade						20 x $100 contributions		20 contributions required
Feed a pig						12 x $180 per pig		1 SOLD 11 more still required
Feed the chickens!						12 x $10 per month		12 required
Livestock						$100 contributions		4 SOLD 26 more required
Veterinary supplies and costs for livestock						10 x $50 contributions (per annum)		4 SOLD 6 more contributions required
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Security and transport (steels and wheels) Kesho Leo village is not only a home to house mamas and children, it’s the base camp for an ever-growing range of activities include social welfare outreach services, pre-school education, health promotion services, farm production and sales and more. It’s also home to our long-term volunteers holding annual positions as managers of Kesho Leo programs, and to short-term volunteers providing additional skills and services. For all of this wonderful stuff to happen, it is essential that fws provides top-notch security systems and reliable and safe transport.
Food and health care supplies for our security dogs (one month's supply)						12 x $70 (per annum)		3 SOLD 9 more required
Kesho Leo vehicle maintenance (monthly)						12 x $330 (per annum)		12 required
Kesho Leo vehicle fuel costs (Donate a tank!)						100 x $55 a tank (per annum)		3 SOLD More contributions required
Askari meals (monthly)						12 x $130 a month (per annum)		1 SOLD 11 more required
Call-out security fee						1 x $2,270 (per annum)		1 required
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Item details

In the personnel aisle…

You can help Kesho Leo employ and train local staff to work alongside our volunteers. These workers help integrate Kesho Leo into the community and are well positioned to lead Kesho Leo’s programs into the future. The figures shown include all on-costs such as tax, superannuation equivalent (PPF) and leave allowances.

Maybe you and your colleagues, families and friends can band together to provide a secure salary for a Tanzanian employee? Imagine that! Nurses for nurses? Teachers for teachers? Labourers for labourers?

Also, if you'd prefer to donate a partial salary, options at checkout start at one week. Easy!

Tanzanian Social Welfare Outreach Worker
(1 year salary and on-costs for half-time employee): $1,200
fws can help improve the lives of the community around Kesho Leo by employing a Tanzanian outreach worker to build up our social welfare outreach program. They would help the volunteer social welfare manager liaise with and support the most vulnerable members in the local community. This role will help build a sustainable network of support that can make a big difference to the lives of our neighbours and friends.

Tanzanian Farm Worker (3 months’ salary and on-costs) $360
The fws permaculture farms continues to burst with yummy organic fruit, veggies and animal products for our residents and income generating markets. As we strive towards economic sustainability, the planting, watering, weeding and learning all about the genius of permaculture takes time. And not to mention spread the word of organic farming through education and practical experience. Your assistance in wages will support our farm workers at what they do best.

Employ and Train local staff
Help us employ and train local staff to work alongside our volunteers.

Tanzanian Builders (3 months’ salary and on-costs): $360
Kesho Leo’s reliance on a hard-working local Tanzanian workforce began from day one of construction back in 2007. fws volunteers continue to value the Kesho Leo workforce as an essential part of the day-to-day running and ongoing development of the village. Sponsoring these wages directly improves the lives of numerous local families and keeps Kesho Leo ticking along smoothly, day-in, day-out.

Askari training (annual): $350
fws is committed to covering the training costs for our local Tanzanian employees. Your donation will help keep our wonderful security team up-to-date with all the latest in security tips and tricks from our contracted private security firm in Arusha.
 

The everyday living aisle 

Many of the things we take for granted are well beyond the reach of the wonderful Tanzanian community living in and around Kesho Leo. Our expert volunteer staff work with local Tanzanian health, social welfare and education organisations and staff to improve circumstances for vulnerable women, children and their families. While everything in the shopping list indirectly supports this work, here are some great ways to send your dollars straight to the people:

Pre-school scholarship places for local children   $30 each
Pre-school education is a prerequisite to entering primary school and the annual fees at local schools is $30. While we know many families can manage this cost and gain dignity from paying it themselves, your $30 can provide a scholarship place for a child in the local community whose caregivers would not otherwise be able to pay the fees.
What a simple but powerful hand-up! 
With all sponsorships for 2011 sold, we are now looking to class of 2012!

School Supplies for Chekechea / Tuition  $10? $100? $683? Every bit helps!
The bare the necessities! The chekechea children love to write and draw when learning in the Kesho Leo early education centre. Pencils get chewed up pretty quickly with their busy hands scribbling away. Want to help us with the education essentials of pencils, pens and all things stationary? Help us sharpen the minds of the chekechea children by donating absolutely any amount to these daily necessities!

Plant a Tree at Kesho Leo $10
Plant a tree at Kesho Leo!  Help Kesho Leo expand their food forest and plant more timber trees on the farm to save for the future.  Each tree will provide shade, mulch for the shamba, or food for our animals and residents. Our goal is to plant as many trees as were used in the building of Kesho Leo. Help us achieve this goal by sponsoring the planting of a tree at Kesho Leo Village!

Kesho Leo Community Outreach Fund: $10? $100? $683? Every bit helps!
At fws, we ensure the benefits of our work reach beyond Kesho Leo to vulnerable and disadvantaged people in the wider community. Our outreach program is designed to provide financial, health and counselling support in cases of poverty, illness and family conflict and violence, to strengthen and support people and families before they reach crisis point. With your support we want to see this fledgling program grow stronger and more widely accessible every year by creating an outreach fund which can be used by the Health, Education and Social Welfare teams as required.

Families for Families sponsorship: $31 per month
To checkout, go to sponsorships and sign up!
Our Families for Families sponsorship program is looking for new sponsors! This program sponsors the eight families living at Kesho Leo, covering basic living costs like food, water, shelter, education, health costs and a matched savings plan to help set up these families members for a long and bright future. For more information, see our sponsorships page.

Kesho Leo Kitty: $10? $20? $30? Every bit helps!
Choose your own amount to put into the Kesho Leo kitty jar to cover critical general operational costs at Kesho Leo such as building and grounds maintenance, volunteer stipends, wages for our Tanzanian management staff, bank fees, internet fees and office supplies. Your contribution will make Kesho Leo’s managers puurrrrrr with delight!

In the equipment aisle…

If you like Big Box shops you’ll love our equipment aisle, where you can find a range of equipment for Kesho Leo to satisfy technology, sports, and hardware lovers alike!

* Items marked " * " can be purchased in Australia and taken over by visiting volunteers, so if you can directly donate these items we’d love to talk! (email shoppinglist@foodwatershelter.org.au ). Other items need to be purchased locally in Tanzania.

Kesho Leo under 12s soccer team kit (uniforms, boots and balls): $100 contributions
We love encouraging our Kesho Kids to be active, and what better way than to get with World Cup fever and equip a soccer team made up of Kesho Leo and community kids to host a series of matches with local schools and other children’s NGOs!

*Notebook computers: $1,300 each
Thanks to a very generous Shopping List donation we now have one super dooper up to date computer! Unfortunately our other two are out-dated and do not have the capacity to run the operating systems and applications we use every day - making for a less than ideal office environment for our Tanzanian staff and volunteers. These 3 laptops are used to make sure the administrative side of Kesho Leo runs smoothly, as well as various programs like Health and Education. With two more you-bute laptops we’ll be even more efficient - and still running on solar energy, of course!

If I had a hammer…

Four legs good, two legs bad…

Kesho Leo’s hard working furry friends include goats, cows, chickens and pigs. Each plays an important role in the permaculture system at Kesho Leo, creating food and market produce to generate income for Kesho Leo (not to mention poo for our biogas fuel!). So back up your cyber ute and help out with a sound investment in live-stock!

Add a Chicken to Our Flock
For just $10 you can buy Kesho Leo a chook! The chicken that you provide to Kesho Leo will be part of a free range, organic flock of chickens that will help Kesho Leo start up a small egg-selling business. Bgaarrrk!

Chicken Coop Upgrade
A chicken coop at Kesho Leo to house a lovely new flock of chooks will help generate income at Kesho Leo so that someday it can become economically self-sufficient. Kesho's staff and residents will work tegether to sell organic eggs in town (and enjoy the produce at home!). The chickens will also be employed as part of the permaculture-system pest control program while simultaneously providing manure for the farm. Eggcellent!

Feed a Pig: $180
Our pigs here at Kesho leo are a large income generating project for us and we do eveything to make sure that they are healthy and happy.  Part of this is making sure that they get the right amount of food every day and given their huge appetites this requires a little helping hand.
 
Feed the chickens: $10
Feed a flock of Chickens for a month.  Not only do our lovely chickens provide the Mamas and kids with eggs to eat, but they are masters of the garden by providing manure for the veggies.  But for the Mamas to eat, the chickens need to eat as well, and that's where we need your help!
 
Livestock: $100 contributions
Kesho Leo has space for goats, cows and pigs.  These provide Kesho Leo with meat, milk and income.  Building our small herds depends on market values, feed availability and other factors.  Your contribution will be used wisely in Kesho Leo’s small but highly productive permaculture system to purchase the most needed livestock!

Veterinary supplies and costs for livestock: $50 contributions
Keeping our farm animals fit and happy requires regular supplies of preventative and treatment medications, and the occasional visit from a vet. Oink!
  

Security and transport (steels and wheels)

Kesho Leo village is not only a home to house mamas and children, it’s the base camp for an ever-growing range of activities include social welfare outreach services, pre-school education, health promotion services, farm production and sales and more. It’s also home to our long-term volunteers holding annual positions as managers of Kesho Leo programs, and to short-term volunteers providing additional skills and services. For all of this wonderful stuff to happen, it is essential that fws provides top-notch security systems and reliable and safe transport.

Food and health care supplies for our security dogs (one month's supply): $70
Man’s best friend also happens to be man’s best security and our two furry patrolmen, Maggie and Knuckle, work the night away making sure everyone sleeps safe and sound. Food and health care supplies will help keep them in tip-top shape for the job!

Kesho Leo vehicle maintenance (monthly): $330
With dusty roads riddled with potholes and donkeys to dodge, our invaluable Hilux Ute and Land Rover are occasionally in need of some tender-loving care to make sure they’re in tip top shape for reliably transporting everything from mamas and kids to goats and charcoal.

Kesho Leo vehicle fuel costs (Donate a tank!): $55
Our trusty old Land Rover and super-dooper Hilux Ute (thanks Planet Wheeler!) are so important for helping Kesho Leo workers and volunteers work their magic. These well-loved vehicles keep the ball rolling day in, day out. So next time you’re filling up, think about filling up for Kesho Leo too!

Askari meals (monthly): $130
The Kesho Leo Askari team (security guards) work hard night and day to keep residents, volunteers and friendly visitors safe. fws returns the favour by making sure they’re happily fed with maize for ugali (local staple food) and chai (tea).

Call-out security fee: $2,270
In the rare event of a security threat, our specially trained Askari (security guards) are backed-up by an Arusha based private security firm. With their rapid response time, the residents of Kesho Leo and fws volunteers can follow our carefully planned emergency protocol knowing the additional security is hot on their heels. We’d love to have this stashed in the bank knowing that we can cover emergencies without drawing money from other activities at Kesho Leo!

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