Category Archives: Project Rise

Dental camp reaches out to more than 2,000 in Tanzanian village

Group photo of volunteer dentists, Dawoodi Bohra volunteers, teachers, and schoolchildren at the Project Rise Specialized Dental Camp in Tanzania.

This story was featured in Daily News Tanzania, which covered Project Rise’s three-day Dental Health and Oral Hygiene Camp in Sikonge District.  Over 3 days, from 17th to 19th July, hundreds of people from Ipole and neighbouring villages in Sikonge District received free dental checkups, treatment and health education at a Dental Health and Oral…

The Dawoodi Bohras of Mombasa mark World Environment Day with prison water project and tree-planting

A Dawoodi Bohra volunteer and a Shimo la Tewa prison official shake hands at the borehole handover on World Environment Day, Mombasa.

A new borehole and water tank now stand at Shimo la Tewa Medium Prison in Mombasa, providing a reliable source of clean water for inmates and staff. The water project was officially handed over on 6 June as volunteers from the Dawoodi Bohra community joined prison staff and inmates to mark World Environment Day through…

Project Rise eye camp in rural Tanzania benefits more than 600 patients

Dawoodi Bohra community members organise a Medical Camp in rural Tanzania

Dawoodi Bohra community members under the banner of Project Rise conducted a three-day eye screening and surgery camp in the rural village of Ipole, Tabora Region, in Tanzania. The camp was held at Mazinge Hospital in Sikonge and provided critical eye care to over 600 individuals from nearby villages. The initiative, part of a broader…

Saifee Hospital Tanzania and Project Rise host kidney health awareness & screening camp in Dar es Salaam

Saifee Hospital and Project Rise came together to host a kidney health awareness camp in Dar es Salaam

Saifee Hospital Tanzania, in collaboration with Project Rise, a Dawoodi Bohra philanthropic initiative, set up a Kidney health Awareness & screening Camp at Mwinjuma Grounds in the Mwananyamala ward of Dar es Salaam. The camp was organised on March 8 which is marked globally as World Kidney Day.  Over 500 individuals between the ages of…