Tanzanian children aided by Logan County in Love Repeated

[October 24, 2017] 

LINCOLN

Spirited Republic hosted a fundraiser Sunday afternoon for Love Repeated. Love Repeated is a charitable organization founded in 2012 in Logan County by Father Simon Taabu and Nancy Davis.

Love Repeated has the mission of raising funds for scholarships for students in secondary education in Tanzania, a nation in East Africa. It also focuses on the hospital in Biharamulo, Tanzania using its resources to help the malnutrition unit at the hospital and an emergency medical fund.

“Love Repeated” board members Nancy Davis(L) and Isabel Videl (R) at a fundraiser held at Spirited Republic.

“We recently shipped a container holding $190,000 of supplies for the hospital,” said Nancy Davis. The shipping container traveled by truck to Chicago, rail to the east coast and ship to Africa. Every dollar raised by Love Repeated is used to purchase medical and educational supplies. “It took five weeks for the supplies to arrive at the destination in Tanzania,” Davis added. These items are absolutely necessary for this third world country where subsistence living is the norm.

In many cases the children in the schools are orphans. Love Repeated supplies all the basics that the children need in addition to school supplies.

“We give the children clothes, food, and a safe place to live. Don’t think of a school as we have locally. There the building may not have any conveniences like running water or even windows,” she said.

Nancy Davis traveled to Tanzania in 2013, staying for three weeks. “The experience changed my life. I met the children that we are supporting. Kids die there because they have no access to common medical supplies such as malaria medication,” she said. She added that the only way for parents in remote parts of the country to take their kids to the hospital is to walk, sometimes covering many miles.

African art was on display.

Nancy Davis and Father Simon Taabu at the “Love Repeated” fundraiser Sunday at Spirited Republic.

Father Simon Taabu has been in the United States for fourteen years studying to receive degrees in educational administration. He will be returning to his home country upon finishing his PhD at Illinois State University to work in the country’s fledgling university system.

Nancy Davis describes life in a third world country in vivid terms. Speak to her and you will receive an education about the privations of subsistence living. The children of Tanzania are receiving help from strangers in Logan County who are committed to making their lives better.

[Curtis Fox]