"If we want an easy experiment with sure success, we should go to work among poor children, offering them an environment which they do not possess."
- Maria Montessori

The Liwalo na Liwe (lih-wall-oh gnaw lee-way) Foundation is an organization dedicated to providing outreach to children.  "Liwalo na liwe" translates from Kiswahili to “What will be will be.”  This means we accept the social issues that children face and try to overcome them through targeted, personal relationships. In accordance with this mission, we publish materials that raise awareness of  children in difficult situations, hoping to find value in the struggle that such children endure.

Using the money generated from the sale of our publications, we seek to combat the issues we have documented.  Our current outreach effort is centered on the growing number of street children in Iringa, Tanzania, resulting largely from poverty and the impact of HIV/AIDS. We want to provide street children with employable skills along with providing education, clothing, shelter, and medicine, in essence providing what parents would. In the future, we hope to build learning centers in Ghana, Jamaica and the United States which use similar methods of community development and targeted instruction for disadvantaged children.

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