If you lived in Tanzania, you would be 10 times more likely to have HIV/AIDS.*
If you lived in Tanzania, you would have 11 times the chance of dying in infancy.*
If you lived in Tanzania, you would die about 13 years sooner.*
If you lived in Tanzania, you would use 99% less electricity.*
If you lived in Tanzania, you would consume 99% less oil.*
If you lived in Tanzania, you would make 97% less money.*
If you lived in Tanzania, you would spend 99% less money on healthcare.*
But,
If you lived in Tanzania, you would sing and dance and laugh a lot more than you probably do.
If you lived in Tanzania, you would know the name of everyone who lived in your neighborhood and everyone would greet you warmly when you walked by.
If you lived in Tanzania, you wouldn't have any heating or air conditioning bills.
If you lived in Tanzania, you would walk and chat with friends nearly everywhere you went.
If you lived in Tanzania, your chances of heart disease would be radically reduced.
If you lived in Tanzania, you would care for your aging parents in your home and your children would care for you there when the time came.
If you lived in Tanzania, you would share whatever you have with your neighbors in need.
If you lived in Tanzania, your kids would be eager to go to school each day and do their homework each evening without a reminder from you.
Life is very difficult in Tanzania, but life is good there, too.
from poverty in Tanzania. The eyes you see at the top of this edition of Habari! are looking to us for help, not a handout, but a hand up. All they need is someone willing to give them the chance to go to school and they will take it from there. They know that obtaining an education is the one chance they have to lift themselves from poverty and, given that chance, they work as hard as they can to make sure they take every advantage of it. Our G4TZ kids are the hardest working kids on the planet!
