Directors
Ujamaa Children's Home was established by two Australian women, Carley Andrews and Lucy Bradlow.
Carley Andrews is the Project Manager in Tanzania and is a Trustee of the governing foundation, The Ujamaa Foundation, which is a registered in Australia. Carley manages the home on site in Tanzania with the help of the House Manager, Gloria Daniel.
Lucy Bradlow is the Director of our fundraising and sponsorship programs from Australia managed by The One By One Foundation.
Lucy and Carley met in Tanzania in 2008 and they have worked together on a number of projects. While they are inspired to help others, they are practical and pragmatic about getting things done and doing them well! Carley and Lucy are also fueled by their mutual experience of projects that have been mismanaged and in fact created Ujamaa Children's Home by supporting 2 young girls who were abandoned by another organisation. They knew it was their responsibility to help these girls, and other children like them. This experience taught Lucy and Carley that creating a supportive environment for children in Tanzania is not easy and can only be achieved with great integrity, dedication and support.
Carley Andrews is the Project Manager in Tanzania and is a Trustee of the governing foundation, The Ujamaa Foundation, which is a registered in Australia. Carley manages the home on site in Tanzania with the help of the House Manager, Gloria Daniel.
Lucy Bradlow is the Director of our fundraising and sponsorship programs from Australia managed by The One By One Foundation.
Lucy and Carley met in Tanzania in 2008 and they have worked together on a number of projects. While they are inspired to help others, they are practical and pragmatic about getting things done and doing them well! Carley and Lucy are also fueled by their mutual experience of projects that have been mismanaged and in fact created Ujamaa Children's Home by supporting 2 young girls who were abandoned by another organisation. They knew it was their responsibility to help these girls, and other children like them. This experience taught Lucy and Carley that creating a supportive environment for children in Tanzania is not easy and can only be achieved with great integrity, dedication and support.
Carley Andrews
Carley Andrews has always wanted to help others, so in early 2006 she went to Kenya as a volunteer where she worked in an orphanage for 2 months. While feeling confronted by the difficulties there, she fell in love with East Africa and vowed to go back. She returned in October 2007 this time coming to Tanzania and she never left!
Carley and her Tanzanian husband opened Ujamaa Hostel (www.ujamaahostel.com) in June 2008, which provides accommodation and volunteer experiences with a range of local charity organisations in Arusha. Through this she has had the opportunity to see and work with many charity organisations including orphanages, nursery schools, vocational training centres and HIV/AIDS centres and has played an integral role in running a number of these organizations.
Her years of experience have enabled her to understand the culture and traditions in Tanzania as well as appreciate the needs of the community. Her desire is to help and support children because they have the capacity to create change and build a better future. She believes that all children deserve not only the basic needs such as food, clothing and education but that they have the right to grow up feeling the love and support of a family and thus The Ujamaa Children's Home came to fruition.
Carley and her Tanzanian husband opened Ujamaa Hostel (www.ujamaahostel.com) in June 2008, which provides accommodation and volunteer experiences with a range of local charity organisations in Arusha. Through this she has had the opportunity to see and work with many charity organisations including orphanages, nursery schools, vocational training centres and HIV/AIDS centres and has played an integral role in running a number of these organizations.
Her years of experience have enabled her to understand the culture and traditions in Tanzania as well as appreciate the needs of the community. Her desire is to help and support children because they have the capacity to create change and build a better future. She believes that all children deserve not only the basic needs such as food, clothing and education but that they have the right to grow up feeling the love and support of a family and thus The Ujamaa Children's Home came to fruition.
Top Row from Left: Carley Andrews, Deborah (Helper), Rose (Helper), Gloria (Manager), Lucy Bradlow
Front Row from Left: Irene, Kelvin, Sabina, Halima, Ally
Front Row from Left: Irene, Kelvin, Sabina, Halima, Ally
Lucy Bradlow
Lucy Bradlow lives by the theory that ending poverty in Africa is not a hopeless cause and that each person can make a difference. Her involvement with the Ujamaa Children's Home has only reinforced this belief as she has watched everyone from Gloria the Tanzanian housemother, to Australians who have never even heard of Arusha, come together to give Tanzanian children a chance to grow up healthy, educated and able to forge a better future for their great nation.
The influences in Lucy's life- being born in apartheid South Africa, her Jewish heritage and her study of the law- bore in her a great desire for justice. In 2008 these desires caused her to undertake an internship at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania. It was in Arusha that she met Carley who helped her start volunteering at night at a girl's orphanage. Lucy was blown away by the power of children to create change. She learnt and believes that if children can be fed, educated and loved, it is they who can break the poverty cycle in Tanzania.
The influences in Lucy's life- being born in apartheid South Africa, her Jewish heritage and her study of the law- bore in her a great desire for justice. In 2008 these desires caused her to undertake an internship at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania. It was in Arusha that she met Carley who helped her start volunteering at night at a girl's orphanage. Lucy was blown away by the power of children to create change. She learnt and believes that if children can be fed, educated and loved, it is they who can break the poverty cycle in Tanzania.
