FAVI Foundation fights for enough and durable healthcare supplies in Africa. We support villages in Africa with big shortages of their healthcare supplies and travel from village to village to provide medical equipment and medicine.

Our Mission

Our mission is to increase healthcare supplies in villages in Africa through collecting donations, purchasing medical supplies and medicine with the best possible price/quality ratio, and delivering them personally. Our initiative is non-profitable.

The villages we support have no other organizations to support the villages’ healthcare. We provide the villages with the basic healthcare supplies and medicine that they can use for a long time. These are medical supplies such as bloodpressure meters, hemoglobin meters, glucosemeters and more. Medicine we provide are medicine such as antibiotics, HIV kits, painkillers, birth control and more. We try to work as sustainable as we can.

Our promises and priorities

1. Through local contact, we search for the villages with the biggest shortages (those that need 90% of their healthcare supplies).
2. We support 1 or 2 villages a year, because of our availabilities due to other work and studies.
3. Every village gets supplies that are sustainable and therefore can be used for years.
4. Every year we follow-up on the year before and all villages we supported: the usage, durability, and products that can be empty by then. 
5. From this year, we will make follow-up testimonial videos of the villages’ representative as feedback of our impact to the village.
6. The donations are only spent on purchasing the medical supplies, medicine and transportation of the medical supplies. No fund is spent on personal stay, transport, food, plane tickets, etc.
7. Until now, only 10% of our donations is spend on the transportation of the medical supplies and medicine and 90% is spend on the medical supplies and medicine!
8. Until now, the villages we support are located in Tanzania, since we have the best way of reaching the villages and understanding the needs as our cofounder is living there. Also, Tanzania is one of the countries in Africa’s with big shortages in healthcare supplies and medicine.
9. Most of the donations are purchased locally in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Some are donated in Holland and taken to Tanzania in an extra suitcase.
10. We compare all pharmacies in the city and make sure we purchase the donations at pharmacies with the best possible price/quality ratio depending on the product and availability.

Our History

FAVI Foundation was founded in 2021 by Vivienne and Fahad. Vivienne visited Tanzania in 2021 and was touched by the healthcare shortages in local villages in Africa. During her first volunteering project in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, she met Fahad. Together with Fahad’s knowledge about local communities and healthcare shortages in Africa, the idea of supporting villages together grew bigger and bigger. Until now, Vivienne sets up fundraises for the projects in Holland and Fahad organizes the logistics in Tanzania. Together they travel from village to village.