Trust for Africa's Orphans: Welcome

Welcome to the website of the Trust for Africa's Orphans (TAO).

TAO is a United Kingdom registered charity, (with number 1069208), established with the objective of providing help and assistance to orphans and the families who care for them in Africa. TAO does this by managing small, sustainable farming projects at grass-roots level, through which participating families can earn money to improve their living standards, and, in many cases, produce more and better food for their own needs. We have also operated health education, vocational training and water management projects.

TAO works in areas of Africa where there are a high proportion of orphaned children due to the combined effects of civil war, conflict and HIV/AIDS. Our projects are run as separate and distinct programmes with clearly defined objectives and timescales, allowing us to measure the positive impact we are able to make.

In all our projects TAO has two key principles:

We work with African communities, understanding their heritage, values and customs, and do not seek to impose European or Western styles of charitable assistance where this might cause long term cultural conflicts.

We work only on projects which allow orphans, and the families who care for them, to remain in their local environs. We understand the basic African spirit of community and family land ownership and do not seek to displace children or villages.

This website aims to give you more information on TAO's work and to provide information on how you can assist us in delivering our project goals to make a real difference in the quality of life for orphaned African children and their carers. We hope you will enjoy learning more about us.

All our supporters can now experience the work of the charity first-hand by accessing the film currently posted on You Tube recently put together by our Trustees following a recent visit to Africa.

Holidaying in Dorset?

Come and hear Joy Mugisha talking about TAO's successes on September 3, 2010 at Lord Sandwich's home in Mapperton, Dorset.

See our Events page for further details.