Maji Safi Group is dedicated to promoting health and disease prevention in underserved and impoverished areas through participatory development and holistic community empowerment, working predominantly with local women and youth.
"Women and children are able to bring a big change within their family and the community."
- Mwamvua, MSG Community Health Worker
"MSG should spread this education to all of Shirati because without health we can not do work and reach our goals."
- Mama Ema, Shirati, Tanzania
"MSG should continue to spread this education to people in Shirati so people know, because if everyone prevents disease, then there will be big changes in health and environmental cleanliness."
- Adhiambo Salon, Shirati, Tanzania
"Thank you for bringing the Maji Safi Read-a-thon to our children, so they can grow their connections to the world and see just how their individual acts add up to big change."
- Myriah Conroy, Read-a-Thon parent, Whittier International School, Boulder
"Maji Safi Group building three Arborloo toilets at our school increased the number of toilets that we have available for our students and teachers to use on a daily basis."
- Headmaster at Michire Primary School
"Sometimes we use our female Arborloo toilet as a changing room because it offers more privacy than the permanent toilets we have."
-Student at Katuru Secondary School
Maji Safi Group promotes health and disease prevention in underserved and impoverished areas through holistic community empowerment and by working predominantly with local women and youth.
"Water is fundamental for life and health. The human right to water is indispensable for leading a healthy life in human dignity. It is a prerequisite to the realization of all other human rights."
- The United Nations -
Maji Safi Group (MSG) aspires to fill the gap in health services left by decades of development work. We believe that community health development in rural areas has focused too much on disease treatment, while largely neglecting disease prevention. A treatment-based approach is often expensive and does little to combat the core of many health problems. Consequently, chronic disease has continued for decades because the roots of the problems have not been targeted.
Poor sanitation and hygiene cause millions of deaths each year and are often a direct result of a lack of knowledge on how to prevent disease. Research conducted by a MSG founder in 2011 revealed that 75% of treated drinking water had an unhealthy level of bacteria just 24 hours later. This shows that even if families made the investment to treat their drinking water, they lacked the knowledge on how to properly store their water. This problem leads to a financial loss and the continued use of unsafe drinking water which sustains the burden of disease in the community. This video shows how water is collected for home use in Shirati, Tanzania: http://vimeo.com/71527759.
MSG believes that by engaging communities with fun and interactive lessons on how to prevent disease, participants will have memorable experiences and will be inspired to improve their WASH-related behavioral habits. By providing rural women, children and youth with educational lessons, songs, stories, and skills that can be passed through generations, MSG aspires to empower communities to prevent diseases that would otherwise continue to paralyze development in rural areas.
Maji Safi Group became a nonprofit corporation in Colorado in January 2013 and received 501(c)(3) US nonprofit status in January 2014. In July 2014, MSG registered as a nonprofit LLC in the United Republic of Tanzania.
Organization name
Maji Safi Group
other names
MSG
2013
Tax id (EIN)
46-1712301
Category
International, Foreign Affairs & National Security
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
455 Marine StreetBoulder County, CO, US