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Projects

Projects that turn awareness into access.

Funded partnerships that bring screening, health insurance, trained health workers and family support to children living with sickle cell disease.

Portfolio4projects
Ongoing1in implementation
Completed3with results
Regions2Mwanza · Geita
SHILCompleted2025-2026Mwanza Region

Securing Health, Impowering Lives

Improving access to healthcare, strengthening the economic capacity of parents and caregivers, and enhancing the quality of life of children living with sickle cell disease in Ilemela and Nyamagana districts, Mwanza.

  • 400+Children supported with health insurance
  • 300+Parents & caregivers empowered
Funded by
Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation
Supervised by
Baylor Tanzania
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DAFTARICompleted2021-2022Lake Zone

SCD Daftari Project

A 2021 project funded by the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) that used exercise books (Daftari) as a tool to carry sickle cell messages and amplify the voice of sickle cell in the community, especially in schools.

Funded by
Bank of Tanzania (BoT)
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KETANOngoing2025-2028Geita Region · Kenya & Tanzania

KETAN Sickle Cell Project

A Kenya–Tanzania initiative strengthening early detection, access to care, community awareness and support for people affected by sickle cell disease. TASIWA implements interventions in three districts of Geita Region.

  • 20,000Early screening of newborns and infants
Funded by
Fondation Pierre Fabre
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Where we work

Rooted in the Lake Zone, connected across borders.

Our projects focus on the regions around the southern shore of Lake Victoria, where sickle cell disease is common and many families live far from specialist care.

  • SHIL
    Mwanza RegionIlemela and Nyamagana districts
  • KETAN
    Geita RegionThree districts — part of a Kenya–Tanzania initiative
Where TASIWA works Schematic map of the Lake Victoria region showing TASIWA project areas in Mwanza and Geita regions of Tanzania, with Kenya to the east. KENYA UGANDA TANZANIA Lake Victoria Mwanza Ilemela · Nyamagana SHIL Geita Three districts KETAN
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