One Heart Source is a volunteer-led, humanitarian organization that believes in combatting conditions like poverty, disease, and illiteracy through education. The organization also runs an academic-intensive children’s home and education center outside of

Arusha Arusha City is a Tanzanian city and the regional capital of the Arusha Region, with a population of 416,442 plus 323,198 in the surrounding Arusha District Council (2012 census). Located below Mount Meru on the eastern edge of the eastern bran ...

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, which serves as a home and family for twenty children who have been abandoned or orphaned due to the

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. The site on which the home rests also doubles as an after-school tuition and sports center for the children of the surrounding areas. The organization also provides general community health education, with an emphasis on HIV prevention, to students and community members. The educational programs are run year-round by teams of Tanzanian, American, and British university students whom the organization recruits from universities around the world. Volunteers live in homestays with families in the village where they work, teach in local primary and secondary schools, and run community programs - ranging from literacy programs for adults to after-school soccer programs for children. Participants must fundraise in order to

volunteer Volunteering is a voluntary act of an individual or group freely giving time and labor for community service. Many volunteers are specifically trained in the areas they work, such as medicine, education, or emergency rescue. Others serve ...

with the organization and undergo an intensive pre-field training process before the program.

Legal Information

One Heart Source is a registered non-profit organization in the United States and the state of California, and the

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is currently listed with the California State Attorney General's Office, registration number CT0144811. The California State Attorney General's Office shows that the organization is headed by CEO Hori Moroiaca. The organization is also a legally registered

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in Tanzania.

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External links

One Heart Source web site

ABC News article International volunteer organizations