The Christmas season is upon us and we are once again teaming up with Tushikamane Pamoja Foundation and the community-at-large to start our campaign - be a Santa to a Senior. In a month's time, a lot of seniors living in poverty and isolation will receive Christmas Cheer and a present from Santa.

In a month’s time, a lot of seniors living in poverty and isolation will receive a present from Santa. The Be a Santa to a Senior program, sponsored by Rickshaw Travels and the Tushikamane Pamoja Foundation encourages members of the community to purchase gifts for those in need. The program, being launched this month, centres around a bunch of Christmas trees set up at each Rickshaw office in Dar es salaam (Head Office on Buzwagi Road, Plot No.1006, Serena Dar-es-salaam and Hyatt Regency The Kilimanjaro).

The trees will be decorated with paper tag ornaments, each containing value in shillings which we would encourage the community to pick up and donate to the Foundation. All the money collected will be used to purchase food and other necessities such as clothing, mosquitoe nets, flasks, buckets , etc., which will be distributed to the seniors which the Foundation supports.

Seniors can be very isolated - especially in Dar es salaam where these Seniors simply don’t have anyone else to watch over them.

Our Be a Santa to a Senior program will be accepting gifts for the next two to four weeks, depending on the location.  Please be generous with your shillings and let’s bring cheer to these very deserving elders of our community.