The One New Heart Tanzania works to improve access to paediatric cardiac care in Tanzania by helping children and families reach diagnosis, treatment and follow-up while strengthening the systems that make this care possible.
Portable echo and ECG screening at regional hospitals, so families do not have to travel far for a diagnosis.
Tanzanian and visiting teams operate together at partner hospitals.
Every mission is also a classroom. Tanzanian doctors, nurses and technicians train alongside visiting specialists, so the skills stay here.
Follow-up clinics and medication for as long as a child needs them.
babies is born with a congenital heart defect.
Source: International congenital heart disease estimatesof school children in a Tanzanian screening study had subclinical rheumatic heart disease.
Source: Tanzania school-based echocardiography studyto cardiac diagnostic services makes early detection difficult, especially outside major centres.
Source: TONHT Impact Report 2025 / Tanzania cardiac-care literatureIdentify children who may have heart conditions through screening and referral.
Help children access appropriate cardiac treatment, including specialist procedures and surgery.
Support training, partnerships and systems that increase local capacity for cardiac care.
Support awareness and prevention efforts, including work related to rheumatic heart disease.
Catherine was three months old when her mother noticed she was breathing too fast. Neighbours in Musoma said it was witchcraft. Her mother kept asking doctors until she found the answer, and on 28 May 2026 Catherine's heart was repaired in Dodoma.
Helping protect children from rheumatic heart disease through schools, teachers and health workers.
One Heart Travel, our tourism social enterprise, commits 50% of its profits to supporting children's heart treatment. Safaris, Zanzibar stays, cultural tours and medical tourism, planned to be ethical and sustainable.
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