Kimbilio Shelter in Morogoro

Kimbilio in Swahili means shelter, haven. The idea to start building Kimbilo House, a safe haven for abused women Tanzanian women, was a dream of Ruth Mmari working for children and women in Evangelical Lutheran Church in Morogoro Diocese in Tanzania. She visited Lempäälä congregation in Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church in Autumn 2011 and inspired Finnish people for her dream. Finnish YMCA took this program and the local partner is Diocese Morogoro's work among Tanzanian women. This shelter should be finished in 2014.

This vision and project is soundly based in a grassroots movement. The need for the house has arisen from discussion and conversations held among women of the diocese over the course of many years. By their own initiative, architectural plans were drawn for the centre, women have raised money to start building - having purchase thousands of bricks in order to start construction, the vision was shared within the diocese as well as with international partners.
Ukumbi (community hall) is rising up in the same site and this will be ready in spring 2013. Running women's shelter will need resources and the plan is to get incomes by renting this Ukumbi. Also an education center and a school is intended to be built.

Tanzania, in Swahili Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania, is located in East Africa and its population is 46.22 million in 2011, capital city Dodoma and largest city Dar es Salaam. It is a peaceful country having a tropical climate and good natural resources.