Please consider becoming a sponsor for one of our 65 students registered at St. Rose in January 2024. In January 2025 we expect 50 more new students! Your donation helps to provide food, school uniforms and educational supplies for our new children. For just $16 a month you can help a child receive an education. Click on the donate button on this page to make  a monthly recurring donation. Write “boy” or "girl" in the memo and we will contact you with the name of your sponsored child. Your donation will help keep 

our work going in Tanzania!

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On first visit was to Saint Rose Academy where we visited our 116 students. The day was filled with jouyful activities as we sang songs, played with soccer balls donated by Ryan Simon, Morgan Peters and friends. We set up a library with the children with books donated by Deb Winter from Just Kids and Nicole Rau from Tuttle Ave. Elememtary School on new shelves that had been built for the library, makig it easier for the kids to ine the booksthey wanted. I had the pleasure of reading aloud Planting the Trees of Kenya by Wangari Mathaii and shared with the children the importance of planting treesto help the Earth. Inspired by the story, each child carried a tree to the  new sustainable gardent we were building at the school. Together they helped plant greens that wiull be ready for harvest soon and will become part of their daily meals, contributing to a balanced diet. Sister Yakunda and Sister Perpetua guided the children during this memorable experience. 

At St. Rose Academy each child receive a beautifully handmade school bag crafted by Carol Johns, completer with a hand-embroidered heart and a note that read, "Look inside and know your are loved" along with these thoughtfull bagsthe children were given school supplies and hats crocheted by friends of Loretta Mariella. There were especially delighted with the cars, pencils and handmade dolls geneously created by Agatha and her group Dress a Girl Around the World,

 We helped the baby class get dressed in their new uniformsand joined them for breakfast. Later we met with electricians to begin planning the installation of electricity for the school, enabling smart technology for teachers and students. Grateful thjanks to Dr. Carol Carter from Sunshine Center and her supporters for financing this project!

It was exciting to see the new bathroom and added classroom projects were completed, making the school look fantastic.It was a joyful and productive time filled with hope and growth for Saint Rose Academy.

Give your helping hand to those who need it!

Give hope to those who need it most!

Fundraising

Our next fundraiser, our basket auction, will be Thursday May 8, 2025 at St. Mark's Community Hall in westhampton Beach. We are looking for items to raffle and make baskets.
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​​SEEDS OF HOPE TANZANIA

Our projects

Maintaining healthy, happy environments is an important, and often neglected part of aid work. We work with local community organizers closely. Take a look at past and present projects to see how you can help.

Gifting Program...Want to give a gift in honor of a loved one that will mean the world to someone?

Education

An education can change a life! Maasai girls are frequently forced into marriage by the age of 14. Our goal is to give children an opportunity to go to school by providing things like uniforms and school fees from elementary school through high school.

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Would you like to join us on our next humanitarian trip to Tanzania? Keep checking the website for updates. In the meantime here are a few photos from our most recent trip.

​Thank you to our sponsors for generously supporting our children to attend school at St. Rose Academy

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our mission:

​Grayson wrote many songs that encouraged hope . Here is "If God is For Us". 

              Our Humanitarian Mission Trip January 2025

Click here to listen to If God Is For Us.

GIVE THE GIFT OF SPONSORSHIP 

​FRIENDS AROUND THE GLOBE

GRAYSON WARREN BROWN

MENTOR, COMPOSER, INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER AND AUTHOR

​I met Grayson when he came to Sts. Peter and Paul, my home parish in Manorville NY in 2006. He spoke to us about being Christ for one another and then told us that he brought choirs to Tanzania. I had an opportunity to join him and his choir on a mission trip to share hope and our love of Christ through music with our brothers and sisters in Tanzania. Grayson created an opportunity for me that changed the course of my life. Without Grayson there would be no Seeds of Hope Tanzania. It was his devotion to God's people and his spirit filled life that encouraged me  to create this charity. He has been at the center of it from the very beginning and I will be forever grateful to him. Grayson went home to God  on July 2, 2023 and, while we are all saddened by his passing, we remember him as a gift from God who chose to use his life in service to God and his people in order to offer hope. What better way to live your life?

food and supplies

To do great work, you need tools. Classrooms school supplies and books. Empty stomachs hurt. They break concentration and make the future seem impossible. Providing food and water is essential part of health.