ICHA Africa, Arusha (2026)

29/12/2025

Our Apologies: Update on Online Giving and Alternative Ways to Give

We recently discovered that our website’s credit card giving platform has been down, and we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

You can still make an end‑of‑year donation through any of the following options:
* PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=77QFXKQFLELP8
* Venmo: https://account.venmo.com/u/ICHAfrica
* Check: ICHA, 1400 Van Buren Street NE, Suite 200, #35, Minneapolis, MN 55413, USA (If you choose to give by check, any envelope postmarked by December 31 will be applied to your 2025 giving).

Thank you for your patience and for your continued support. Your generosity means more than you know.

More: https://shorturl.at/XPUb9

28/12/2025

As we look back on 2025, our hearts are full. This year reminded us what’s possible when compassion, collaboration, and courage come together.

✨ Tiny Feet Big Steps expanded to Ethiopia — a milestone that brings lifesaving neonatal training and hope to even more families across the continent. Learn more: https://www.tinyfeetbigsteps.com/ethiopia.html

🤝 We signed a landmark partnership with Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre, strengthening our shared commitment to high‑quality, low‑cost neonatal care in Tanzania. Details here: https://www.ichafrica.org/almc.html

🌟 And we gathered under the glow of the Night of Light in Arusha, celebrating community, honoring caregivers, and raising support for the Arusha Pediatric & Maternity Centre. Relive the evening: https://www.ichafrica.org/photo-journal.html

✨ This year also marked a beautiful first for us — our inaugural ICHA Staff Retreat. Gathering our team in one place reminded us just how extraordinary these individuals are. Each person brings unique gifts, deep compassion, and unwavering commitment to improving healthcare across Tanzania and Africa. Their impact is already profound. And as we look toward the new year, we know their influence, innovation, and leadership will only continue to grow.

Thank you to every partner, volunteer, donor, and friend who walked with us this year. Because of you, more babies are surviving, more families are thriving, and more light is reaching places where it’s needed most.

Here’s to even bigger steps in 2026.

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27/12/2025

Sustainability isn’t just a strategy — it’s a story of lives changed.

Meet the young doctor shaping the future of neonatal care in Tanzania… and the tiny baby whose survival shows why your support matters far beyond 2025: https://shorturl.at/MfiLu

26/12/2025

🌟 Coming Early 2026: A New Era of Pediatric and Maternal Care in Arusha🌟

ICHA is transforming a former school campus into the Arusha Pediatric & Maternity Centre — the first dedicated outpatient clinic of its kind in Tanzania, built to give every mother and child access to skilled, compassionate care. From newborn checkups and immunizations to urgent care, diagnostics, and family education, APMC will serve families with dignity and excellence.

Your support helps finish this lifesaving center and equips it with the tools and spaces needed to care for the smallest and most vulnerable. Together, we can strengthen child healthcare in Tanzania and beyond.

👉 Learn more or donate at https://www.ichafrica.org/apmc.html

23/12/2025

💙 Because of you, fragile newborns are getting a stronger chance at life.

Through Tiny Feet Big Steps (TFBS) Neonatology Conferences, ICHA is training NICU physicians and nurses side-by-side—strengthening teamwork, clinical skills, and innovation where it matters most. With donor support, we are leading the largest African Neonatology Conference in Arusha, Tanzania, equipping frontline caregivers with practical, life-saving strategies they can use immediately.

Your generosity is expanding this impact even further. TFBS expanded its reach to Ethiopia just a few weeks ago, with additional countries requesting training and partnership.

Donor support also places critical resources directly into the hands of medical teams. Our Every Breath Counts: Manual of Neonatal Care & Drug Doses (3rd Edition)—a 440-page, evidence-based handbook designed for low-resource NICUs—has now reached nearly 250 hospitals across 25 African countries, helping improve care and survival for thousands of newborns.

✨ This is what your giving makes possible: trained teams, stronger systems, and more babies breathing, surviving, and thriving.

Thank you for believing in this work and investing in sustainable change for the smallest lives.

Donate: https://www.ichafrica.org/donate.html

22/12/2025

💙 Your support is building the next generation of child healthcare in Tanzania and across Africa💙

Because of generous donors like you, ICHA is mentoring and supporting Tanzanian doctors and nurses who care for the country’s most vulnerable children every day.

👩🏽‍⚕️👨🏾‍⚕️ Today, your impact includes:
• Ongoing mentorship for 7 Tanzanian pediatric doctors
• Professional support for 20 NICU nurses providing lifesaving newborn care
• 4 doctors now training in international residency programs in Kenya, South Africa, and the United States—a milestone ICHA helped make possible

📚 ICHA also shares pediatric expertise through teaching and training with the Pediatric Association of Tanzania and other medical forums, strengthening care far beyond a single hospital.

✨ This is how sustainable change happens—by investing in people, building local expertise, and ensuring children receive high-quality care close to home.

Thank you for believing in this work and making lasting impact possible.

More about our work: https://www.ichafrica.org/our-work.html

20/12/2025

🌍✨ Where Compassion Meets Expertise ✨🌍

Through the Arusha Pediatric & Maternity Centre (APMC)—the first dedicated specialty centre for outpatient care of infants, children, adolescents, and pregnant women—and the Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre (ALMC) pediatric ward and clinics, children are receiving the specialized care they need to survive, grow, and thrive.

From fragile newborns taking their first breaths to adolescents stepping into their futures, these centres are transforming outcomes and rewriting stories of hope every single day.

This is what it looks like when a community believes in its children.

This is what it looks like when care becomes a promise.

💛 Healthier beginnings. Stronger families. Brighter futures.

More: https://www.ichafrica.org/our-work.html

18/12/2025

Every breath counts, no matter how small. 💙

ICHA is proving that low-cost, high-impact neonatal care can transform survival rates for premature and vulnerable newborns across Africa.

By mentoring and training local doctors and nurses, we're building a sustainable model of care that saves lives today and strengthens healthcare systems for tomorrow.

More about our work: https://www.ichafrica.org/our-work.html

16/12/2025

🌟 Staff Spotlight: Meet Angel Mathew, RN. NICU Nurse, Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre NICU Institute for Child Healthcare Africa - Arusha, Tanzania.

Angel is a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) nurse at Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre (ALMC), where she has served since 2016. She considers it a privilege to contribute to neonatal care and takes pride in her work within the NICU. She has served on the Tiny Feet Big Steps (TFBS) Conference training team since it began in 2021. Beyond her clinical responsibilities, she has played a key role with the ALMC NICU team in organizing and leading workshops and seminars for nurses from hospitals across Tanzania, advancing neonatal care education and practice, and developing outpatient pediatric nursing care.

✨ Your donations help make this possible. By supporting ICHA, you enable Angel’s work at ALMC and empower the advancement of child healthcare across Africa.

Together, we’re making care accessible, compassionate, and life-changing.

Donate: https://www.ichafrica.org/donate.html

15/12/2025

💜 Have you ever wondered what ICHA does to advance child healthcare in Africa? Well, we’re glad you asked!! 🌍

With your support we are:

1. Delivering low-cost, high impact neonatology services of premature and hospitalized newborns in our partner NICUs.

2. Providing specialty outpatient and inpatient pediatric care through the Arusha Pediatric & Maternity Centre (APMC) and the Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre (ALMC) pediatric ward and clinics in Arusha, Tanzania.

3. Mentoring doctors and nurses in pediatrics.
* 7 Tanzanian doctors and 20 NICU nurses are currently supported by ICHA.
* 4 doctors in international residency programs (Kenya, South Africa, USA) that ICHA has helped reach this stage of training.
* Teaching at Pediatric Association of Tanzania and other venues.

4. Training NICU physicians & nurses through Tiny Feet Big Steps (TFBS) Neonatology Conferences, uniquely co-training physicians and nurses, with a strong emphasis on innovation, clinical proficiency, and actionable healthcare strategies.

💜 Yes, that’s a lot!! And we’re just getting started…ICHA is growing 🌍✨

From lifesaving NICU care to mentoring doctors and nurses, to hosting Africa’s largest neonatal conference—our work is expanding and transforming child healthcare across the continent.

👉 Read more about our work: ichafrica.org/our-work.html

Together, we’re making care accessible, compassionate & life‑changing.

14/12/2025

💜 Our Values: The Heart of ICHA

At ICHA, our work to advance child healthcare in Africa is guided by values that shape every decision and every act of care:

- Compassion 💕 – Offering medical care with kindness and respect, seeking to both understand and alleviate suffering.

- Excellence 🌟 – Children deserve healthcare that adopts the highest standards of care.

- Education 📚 – Teaching and mentoring doctors and nurses, investing in families and communities in the care of their children.

- Integrity 🤝 – Practicing honesty with others and ourselves, doing what we say and saying what we do.

- Collaboration 🌍 – We work best when we understand everyone has equal value, listening and learning from each other in our communities.

- Equity ⚖️ – Every child deserves quality care regardless of gender, income, tribe, or religion.

✨ These values are not just words—they are the foundation of our mission. With your support, they come alive in NICUs, pediatric wards, and training programs across Africa, bringing hope and healing to children and families.

Together, we are building a future where every child can thrive.

More: https://www.ichafrica.org/mission-vision-values.html

13/12/2025

🌟 Staff Spotlight: Meet Our Pediatric Registrar

We are delighted to introduce Dr. Eunice Msuya, MD, Pediatric Registrar at Arusha Lutheran Medical Center, Tanzania

Dr Eunice Msuya is a pediatric registrar at Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre (ALMC), where she has been working in the Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) and Pediatric Department for the past 3 years. She is passionate about neonatal resuscitation, advancing neonatal care in developing countries, and performing pediatric procedures in high acuity clinical environments. Dr Eunice has taken the lead in recent years in neonatology training and directing the NICU at ALMC NICU.

✨ Your donations help make this possible. By supporting ICHA, you enable Dr. Msuya’s work at ALMC and empower the advancement of child healthcare across Africa.

Together, we’re making care accessible, compassionate, and life-changing.

Donate: https://www.ichafrica.org/donate.html

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