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.
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
Tanzania-registered non-profit institution
Independent Board of Trustees
Three-site institutional model
Twelve functions across six donor-fundable components
2026–2035 strategic horizon
Staged donor-readiness and partnership pathway
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.
Child Protection
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Family Strengthening
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Education
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Teacher Quality
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TVET
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Youth Transition
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Enterprise & Out-Growers
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Health & Nutrition
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Climate Resilience
Institutional architecture
What we are building in Dodoma Region.
Our institutional architecture is anchored across three sites in Dodoma Region.
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
Built for credibility before scale.
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, governed by a Tanzanian Board of Trustees, anchored in the community from which it emerged, and being built to meet international institutional partnership standards from the first day.
Readiness before ambition.
Each phase moves on documented readiness gates — safeguarding, financial controls, audit readiness, technical studies, land documentation — not on optimism. Donors enter at the readiness level that matches their mandate.
Leadership
Co-Leadership Dual-Engine.
The Foundation operates through two complementary leadership engines, anchored in a Tanzanian Board of Trustees.
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
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 independent 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.
First entry point
The Establishment and Donor Readiness Window.
The Foundation's first funding ask is the Establishment and Donor Readiness Window. It funds the readiness platform that every responsible donor expects before scale: safeguarding architecture, financial controls, audit readiness, technical studies, land documentation, MEAL framework, governance systems and donor-readiness capacity.
It is the most appropriate first investment for partners who want their later, larger commitment to land on an institution that has been built properly from the first day.
What this window builds
Readiness before scale.
- Board governance activation
- Safeguarding architecture
- Finance and procurement controls
- Audit-readiness setup
- Land documentation and due diligence
- Hydrogeological and technical studies
- MEAL framework and baseline design
- Donor-readiness documentation
Documents
Read the institution before any conversation begins.
Public · PDF
Vision and Strategic Plan 2026–2035
The full ten-year institutional plan.
DownloadPublic · PDF
Donor Investment Brief 2026–2035
Six-to-eight-page investment summary.
DownloadPublic · PDF
Concept Note 2026–2030
Concise two-page institutional summary.
DownloadThe Detailed Institutional Funding Proposal 2026–2035 and supporting due-diligence files are shared during serious diligence under appropriate confidentiality controls.