Sasa Foundation

The SASA Foundation, established by eleven Tanzanians in 2013, uplifts women and children in the Moshono community. It focuses on addressing gender disparities prevalent in East Africa, targeting patriarchal systems, caregiving burdens, limited resources, leadership gaps, and restricted access to quality education. The foundation empowers women and girls through education, healthcare, entrepreneurship, financing, and crisis support, fostering profound socio-economic changes in families and communities. Core programs include: 1. Daycare Center Program: Relieves women of childcare duties, allowing them to engage in education, employment, and entrepreneurship while providing children with a safe learning environment. 2. Vocational & Skill Building Program: Equips women with skills, knowledge, and confidence for economic pursuits, offering workshops on topics like communication, leadership, and vocational skills. 3. Community Women’s Micro Financing and Bank Program: Supports women in growing their businesses, improving their families' socio-economic status, and gaining access to financing through a community-based micro-financing bank. 4. Open Day Healthcare Program: Provides the Moshono community with access to quality healthcare, attracting people from far and wide for diagnoses, treatments, and basic medicines. 5. Life Skills Girl and Boys Program: Promotes life skills, confidence, and allyship among girls and boys through workshops in primary and secondary schools, challenging gender norms. 6. Outreach Program: Offers workshops to rural communities, conducts capacity-building sessions for over 14,000 women, attends home visits, analyzes gender dynamics in employers' companies, and provides support to women and children in crisis. The SASA Foundation envisions a more equitable society shaped by responsive norms and systems, where women from diverse socio-economic backgrounds, especially those from impoverished families and communities, can engage in product