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Formerly The Plaster House, Kafika House is a high-love, low-cost rehabilitative surgery programme.

01/11/2026

Applications for our 2027 immersion trip are open!

June 19th to July 3rd, in collaboration with Friends of Kafika House, we will welcome a group of guardians and teens to Kafika House and to Tanzania.

This two-week program is designed for guardians and their teens, ages 12-19, to learn, play, and volunteer at Kafika House and to experience the cultural and natural beauty of Arusha, Tanzania.

Each morning is spent at Kafika House supporting our surgical healthcare programme in a variety of ways. Then, the afternoons are spent enriched in the surrounding nature and culture of Tanzania.

For more information and to secure your spot, email [email protected]

📍Kafika House - Tanzania
🧡 High-Love, Low-Cost Rehabilitative Surgery

Our Vision: No child in Tanzania lives with a treatable disability.

29/10/2026

Ensuring babies with cleft palates get adequate nutrition can often be difficult.

A baby creates a two-part action when feeding: suction (negative pressure) to draw milk out, and a rhythmic compression of the ni**le. A baby with a cleft palate can do the compression but can’t generate suction, because the gap in the roof of the mouth means they can't create a sealed chamber.

The specialised bottles we use solve this by removing the need for suction entirely. Instead of the baby pulling milk out, the bottle delivers it.

📍Kafika House - Tanzania
🧡 High-Love, Low-Cost Rehabilitative Surgery

Our Vision: No child in Tanzania lives with a treatable disability.

27/10/2026

In rural Tanzanian villages, many families live in traditional homes made from mud and thatch. An open fire is a central part of the home, and is used for heating, cooking, and boiling water.

Unfortunately, accidents can happen – and it’s why burn scar contractures is one of the conditions we treat.

📍Kafika House - Tanzania
🧡 High-Love, Low-Cost Rehabilitative Surgery

Our Vision: No child in Tanzania lives with a treatable disability.

26/10/2026

Rift Valley Children's Village is a permanent home for orphaned and marginalised children – all of whom are loved and supported through every stage of development, including post-secondary school and young adulthood.

Kafika House partners with RVCV (a program of The Tanzanian Children's Fund ) to provide work experience to their college graduates through supportive internships.

📍Kafika House - Tanzania
🧡 High-Love, Low-Cost Rehabilitative Surgery

Our Vision: No child in Tanzania lives with a treatable disability.

23/10/2026

Meet Aisha, our Facility Administrator. She joined Kafika House as an intern from Rift Valley Children’s Village, and recently signed on to join the team full time.

She supports the Facility Coordinator in overseeing day-to-day operations, including procurement, transport, stores, and facility maintenance, helping to ensure the smooth running of our Arusha facility.

📍Kafika House - Tanzania
🧡 High-Love, Low-Cost Rehabilitative Surgery

Our Vision: No child in Tanzania lives with a treatable disability.

21/10/2026

"The quality of facilitation has made the collaboration feel less like a service being delivered and more like a shared investment in these young people's futures."

-A reflection from one of our team members about the partner organisations we bring in to provide seminars to our mamas and children.

We are so grateful for all of the partner organisations we get to work with that help enrich not only our children's time at Kafika House, but help expand the horizons for their futures.

📍Kafika House - Tanzania
🧡 High-Love, Low-Cost Rehabilitative Surgery

Our Vision: No child in Tanzania lives with a treatable disability.

19/10/2026

Wherever communities gather, our Outreach Team meets them there, oftentimes it's beneath the shade of the biggest tree around.

📍Kafika House - Tanzania
🧡 High-Love, Low-Cost Rehabilitative Surgery

Our Vision: No child in Tanzania lives with a treatable disability.

17/10/2026

We believe that coming from a background of scarcity shouldn’t be what determines a child's future.

In Tanzania, many families cannot afford the surgery or rehabilitation their child needs… so they go without. We never let a family’s financial difficulties get in the way of their child’s treatment. We ask parents to contribute what they can, and we cover the rest.

📍Kafika House - Tanzania
🧡 High-Love, Low-Cost Rehabilitative Surgery

Our Vision: No child in Tanzania lives with a treatable disability.

16/10/2026

Many of the children who arrive at Kafika House are undernourished — a reality that affects not just their health, but their ability to heal.

Holistic rehabilitation means addressing that first: getting children surgery-strong, and ensuring every child leaves in better shape than they arrived, inside and out.

📍Kafika House - Tanzania
🧡 High-Love, Low-Cost Rehabilitative Surgery

Our Vision: No child in Tanzania lives with a treatable disability.

15/10/2026

On International Day of Rural Women, we recognise the mothers who bring their children to Kafika House from remote corners of Tanzania.

Some have never left their village before, and many travel for days to reach us. Without the strength of mamas like these, so many children would live with a disability for the rest of their lives.

📍Kafika House - Tanzania
🧡 High-Love, Low-Cost Rehabilitative Surgery

Our Vision: No child in Tanzania lives with a treatable disability.

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Themi Hill
Arusha

Website

https://www.kafikahouse.org/

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