Genette Foundation · Dodoma Region · Tanzania · 2026–2035

A governed pathway from vulnerable childhood to productive adulthood.

Genette Foundation is a Tanzania-registered, independently governed, child- and youth-centred non-profit institution building one continuous pathway in Dodoma Region: from child protection and family strengthening through education, TVET, youth transition, agricultural enterprise, health and climate resilience.

Empowering Children · Strengthening Communities · Transforming Lives

The Pathway

One institution, one continuous pathway.

Many interventions for vulnerable children are funded around a single function: care, schooling, health or skills. But children grow up, and the pathway they need does not stop at one stage.

Genette Foundation is built around a continuous institutional pathway that begins with child protection and family strengthening, moves through education and teacher quality, opens into TVET and youth transition, and connects young people to agricultural enterprise, out-grower farming, agro-processing, health, nutrition and climate-resilient livelihoods. By institutional design: one Board, one safeguarding framework, one beneficiary pathway.

Institutional architecture

What we are building in Dodoma Region.

Our institutional architecture is anchored across three sites in Dodoma Region.

Site One

Nala Main Campus

The founding campus in Dodoma Region, committed by Pastor Gaudencia Aaron and family as the Foundation's initial institutional and child-protection anchor.

Site Two

Education and TVET Expansion Site

A planned expansion site in Dodoma Region for boarding education, the Vocational and Technical Training College designed to pursue VETA registration and programme accreditation, the Teacher Training Hub, and expanded sports and recreation infrastructure.

Site Three

Production Estate Phase 1

A proposed agricultural and production estate in Dodoma Region, subject to due diligence, land documentation, Board approval and responsible financing. The estate is intended to link youth training, irrigated production, out-grower farming and agro-processing.

Differentiation

One institution, one accountable system.

One institution, not six projects.

The twelve institutional functions are designed to be governed under one Board, one safeguarding framework, one MEAL system, one finance architecture and one beneficiary pathway. Donors fund components; beneficiaries experience continuity.

Tanzania-led, community-anchored, donor-accountable.

The Foundation is registered in Tanzania, with a Tanzanian Board of Trustees being constituted, anchored in the community from which it emerged, and being built to meet international institutional partnership standards from the first day.

Children protected before scale.

The Safeguarding Policy Suite is in force. Training, child- and community-accessible reporting channels, and CPIMS+-informed case-management arrangements are being established before child-facing services scale. Each later phase moves on documented readiness gates, not on optimism.

How safeguarding works

Institutional readiness

The Establishment and Donor Readiness Window.

The Establishment and Donor Readiness Window is the Foundation's primary institutional-readiness window. It supports safeguarding implementation, financial controls, audit readiness, technical studies, land documentation, MEAL, governance systems and donor-readiness capacity.

It is not the only way a partnership can begin: a partner may also support a donor-fundable component, a site or capital requirement, or a specific function, with any enabling dependencies identified openly.

What this window builds

Readiness before scale.

  • Board constitution and committee activation
  • Safeguarding implementation and training
  • Finance and procurement controls
  • Audit-readiness setup
  • Land documentation and due diligence
  • Hydrogeological and technical studies
  • MEAL framework and baseline design
  • Donor-readiness documentation

Leadership

Co-Leadership Dual-Engine.

The Foundation is led during the Establishment Phase through two complementary executive roles, while the wider Tanzanian Board of Trustees is being constituted.

Pastor Gaudencia Aaron

Pastor Gaudencia Aaron

Founder, Board Chair and Project Director

Carries the Foundation's child- and youth-centred mission, pastoral legitimacy, community relationships, family-facing trust, mission culture and community-rooted service.

Fradius Martin

Fradius Martin

Co-Founder, Secretary of the Board and Strategic Director

Carries institutional design, governance discipline, fiduciary systems, donor positioning, external partnerships, documentation, reporting architecture, donor-facing accountability and institutional readiness.

The Co-Leadership model is designed to combine founding vision, community trust, institutional governance, donor accountability and operational discipline. The Foundation is neither only a pastoral initiative nor only a technical institution. It is both.

Founding support

Founding support, not parentage.

Established with the support of House of Glory International Church (HGIC; Registration No. S.A 18635), recognised as the founding spiritual and community anchor, not the parent institution.

Genette Foundation is its own legal and institutional entity, with its own Board of Trustees, its own statutory registration, its own governance and accountability framework, and its own donor relationships. The Foundation is faith-rooted in origin and donor-accountable in delivery.

Its operating model is non-discriminatory and serves vulnerable children, youth, families, women, persons with disabilities, farming households and surrounding communities regardless of religion, ethnicity, gender, disability, income or background, through an integrated pathway that includes protection, education, health, nutrition, skills, livelihood, climate resilience and long-term family wellbeing.

Strategic alignment

Aligned with national, continental and global development frameworks.

National · Lead

Tanzania Development Vision 2050 (Dira 2050)

Human capital, productive economy, dignified work.

National · 25-year plan

Long-Term Perspective Plan 2026/27–2050/51

Long-horizon national planning architecture.

National · Child policy

Child Development Policy 2008

Child protection, family-based care, non-discrimination.

National · Education

Education and Training Policy 2014, Version 2023

Quality education, teacher development, technical and vocational education, inclusive education.

Continental

African Union Agenda 2063

Aspirations 1, 3, 6 and selected partnership relevance under 7.

Global

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Primary contributions to SDGs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 13 and 17.

Documents

Read the institution before any conversation begins.

The Detailed Institutional Funding Proposal 2026–2035 and supporting due-diligence files are shared during serious diligence under appropriate confidentiality controls.