Located in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Toil Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the mission of helping the people of Tanzania, East Africa become self-sufficient through education, resources and support.
With a dedicated Irish Pallottine missionary priest at the helm, Toil began in the 1990’s as a group of family and friends in both the United States and Ireland.
Toil is nondenominational. Although there are many religions in Tanzania including Catholic, Christian, Lutheran, Evangelical, Muslim plus tribal religions, the people are helped because of their needs not their faith. Every cent of every donation goes directly to Toil Foundation and helping the poor in Tanzania.
Donations are most appreciated and used, for example, to help feed the poor, get medical help for the sick, take the ill and injured to the hospital, help pregnant women in the clinic, care for and feed children, assist the elderly, and bury the dead. Villagers in the bush suffer from hunger, disease and lack of food and water, and live in extreme poverty. There are minimal roads and electricity is infrequent. Yet, Mt. Kilimanjaro sits majestically in the background, with a landscape filled with giraffes, lions, hyenas, hippopotami and more.
The Nangwa Project was Toil’s first project, completed several years ago. The Nangwa Vocational School, dormitories, dispensary and mother and child clinic were built in Nangwa. The Medical Missionaries of Mary took over the handling of the clinic.
It was then time to move eleven miles on to Mogitu. The government of Tanzania had donated 100 acres of forest land (bush) for the project. The Mogitu Project includes the building of a vocational training center, community center, mother and child clinic, dispensary, mission house and church. The Mogitu Project is the current concentration along with taking care of the daily needs of the impoverished villagers.