Spread the word from home
Help us Fundraise
At the Bandari Project we welcome all interest from people wanting to help us fundraise and spread the word about what we are doing all across Australia, and the world!
You could run a trivia night, movie night, a dinner, cocktail party, ball…the possibilities are endless! If you have an idea, please get in touch below. We’d love to hear from you.
You can also help spread the word by:
👉 following us on Facebook and Instagram.
👉 Engaging on our posts! Like, Comment, share and/or save.
👉 Tagging a friend who you think would be interested.
👉 Telling your friends and family about us and invite them to follow us too!
These small acts will literally help spread the word of our project, helping us to gain support, sponsors and recruit volunteers!
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Volunteering at home and in Tanzania
Contact Us below if you are interested in Joining us on our next trip to tanzania [6th – 24th (or 28th)] of April 2023.
Have the experience of a lifetime, visit us and volunteer with us in Tanzania. We organise guided trips every Easter from Australia to Mto wa Mbu, where for three weeks you work at the school, go on Safari in the magical Serengeti and visit the beautiful beaches of Zanzibar.
Or, you can plan a volunteer trip at a time that suits you, and we can help you organise everything. It really is an unforgettable experience!
Contact us if you would like to notified of our next trip to Tanzania.
We would also love to hear from you, if you feel you have a skills or knowledge that you feel could be a valuable addition to our team of volunteers!
Volunteers have helped our project grow!
What you can do to help
sponsor a child
Give the gift of a brighter future, and make a big impact.
Make a Donation
Support the ongoing running costs of our project.
Support a project
Volunteer, help spread the word, or fundraise.
Team
Our Volunteers
Martin Dunstan
President
Martin has been our president since November 2020, he has worked for almost 30 years as a livestock extension officer with Agriculture Victoria, and before this was a secondary teacher.
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Martin and wife Karen have volunteered at the Bandari Project and have also spent time in Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia, gaining valuable insight into the benefits of successful development projects.
Martin has a strong interest in social justice. He is conscious of his own privilege as a middle class Australian, and the need to find permanent solutions to third world poverty. He is excited by the opportunities that the school and the women’s project will provide in enabling the poorest in the Mto wa Mbu community to make their own way in the world.
Ronda
Treasurer
Ronda has worked and volunteered in the community sector for her entire career, mainly in support of older people, people with disabilities, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other vulnerable groups in the community.
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She is passionate about social justice, the importance of education and the empowerment of women. Ronda left full time employment in 2019 and moved to Koroit in 2020.
She has been aware of The Bandari Project for some years, and welcomed the invitation to join the Board as Treasurer in 2021.
She now spends her time as a Board member on two other Boards as well as Bandari, supporting her family’s businesses and enjoying time with the grandchildren. Ronda is looking forward to the opportunity to visit Tanzania some time in the future!
Geoff Coxall
Geoff Coxall lives in Port Fairy and is a happily retired school teacher. He has five kids and twelve grandkids scattered about the place. Geoff’s wife, Rhonda passed away some sixteen years ago so he needed something to keep him busy.
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At Rotary one evening, Seif, our guest speaker, suggested he would like to build a kinder in his home village of Mto wa Mbu, Tanzania. Geoff was immediately interested in this idea and was a member of the inaugural volunteer trip in 2015, when a group of naïve Aussies visited Africa having no knowledge of the extreme difference in culture to that of Oz.
This was a huge learning curve, with our volunteers being greatly educated over the next few years by our wonderful project manager Glory, and chef Thomas.
Geoff would like to thank Seif and Catherine for the amazing experiences he has had over the last few years with our Bandari Project. At 75, he feels that he is getting a bit old, but looks forward to future developments of the project.