The Karimjee Jivanjee family came
to Africa more than 200 years ago from Gujarat in India. We came as dhow
traders from India to Zanzibar and established our business in Zanzibar in
1825.
Our business prospered and by 1920
we had expanded into Tanganyika. By 1950 the family was engaged in import and
export trading, sisal and tea farming and sales and service of motor vehicles
and motorcycles.
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| President Jakaya Kikwete (right) receives Karimjee Jivanjee family book from Hatim Karimjee, Chairman of Karimjee Jivanjee Ltd during a ceremony to launch the book in Dar es Salaam recently. |
The Karimjee family established
several charity trusts in the 1950’s and built many schools, hospitals and
dispensaries and mosques and community centres. The most famous of these
donations are; Karimjee Hall, Usagara Secondary School in Tanga (formerly
Karimjee School), the Karimjee Clinic in Mnazi Moja, and the old Karimjee
Hospital in Zanzibar. At the same time Karimjee gave scholarships to many
Tanzanians to study overseas.
The charity trusts became less
active after 1966/1969.
2. KARIMJEE
JIVANJEE FOUNDATION
In 2009 the family decided to
revive the charity trusts and registered the new Karimjee Jivanjee Foundation
(KJF). KJF commenced operations in 2011.
KJF is funded by donations from Toyota Tanzania.
The mission of KJF is to invest in
Education as a means to enhance the economic development of Tanzania. Tanzania
faces many short term and long term socio- economic difficulties. The long term
solution to many of these challenges is education.
Our strategy is to provide
scholarships to Tanzanians to study in Tanzania, and to make improvements to
various schools.
KJF has approximately 50 Scholars
studying at graduate and post graduate level in Tanzania.
In addition to scholarships KJF
provides donations to some schools to make improvements to education
facilities.
3. MASTERS
IN PAEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY
Two Tanzanian Doctors, Dr Rehema Laiti and Dr
Shakilu Kayungo will be the first Doctors in Tanzania to study for a newly
developed Masters in Paediatric Oncology
at “MUHAS” Muhimbili University for Health and Allied Sciences.
They have received scholarships from the
Karimjee Jivanjee Foundation to fund their two years study including a 3 month
international work experience in hospitals in Ireland. The cost of the
scholarships provided by Karimjee Jivanjee Foundation is Tshs 70 million.
The Rotary
Paediatric Oncology Ward(Children’s Cancer Ward) at Muhimbili National
Hospital is the newest and the best children’s cancer ward in East Africa. This
new ward was completed in 2013 and it was funded by Six Rotary Clubs in Dar es
Salaam at a cost of US $700,000.
Dr Trish Scanlan and Children in Crossfire
are aware that the foundation for long term sustainability in clinical services
is the establishment of local capacity in treating children with cancer. This
requires qualified Tanzanian doctors working in hospitals around the country.
We are grateful to Dr Scanlan and to Children in Crossfire for establishing
this Masters Programme in Paediatric Oncology in collaboration with MUHAS.
Karimjee
Jivanjee Foundation realised that the time had come
to
trainTanzanian doctors in this specialised field of Paediatric
Oncology,
and that is why we have agreed to provide
Scholarships
to two Doctors. Currently Tanzania does not have
a single
qualified Paediatric Oncologist apart from Dr Trish
Scanlan. Doctors
Rehema Laiti and Shakilu Kayungo will be
the first
Tanzanian Paediatric Oncologists.
It
is my therefore my pleasure to award these two scholarships,
And
congratulate Doctor Rehema Laiti and Doctor Shakilu
Kayungo
for their awards.
Hatim Karimjee
Chairman, Karimjee Jivanjee
Foundation, and
Honorary Chairman Karimjee
Jivanjee Group of Companies in Tanzania
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