that works with long-term Peruvian and Tanzanian partners as they strengthen health systems and implement construction projects in isolated and marginalised communities in the Amazon and on Lake Victoria.
In addition to supporting these existing programmes, we also work with our partners to create unique learning opportunities and transformative experiences for volunteers.
Our volunteer programmes fall into three categories:
Volunteers spend time aboard medical ships, playing a role in providing primary care to isolated communities as part of our in-country medical and dental programmes.
Connecting school groups to our long-term partners in Tanzania, facilitating opportunities to take part in community-led building projects and see sustainable international development practices in action.
Volunteers contribute to locally led housing projects in Tanzania through practical tasks, working under the guidance of experienced local builders.
Vine Trust has been working in Peru since 2001. The Amazon Hope Programme is based in the rainforest city of Iquitos, in the Loreto region of Peru.
Social, cultural and environmental factors, together with the challenge of providing healthcare to a highly dispersed and remote population, all contribute to the Loreto Region having some of the worst health indicators in the country. Since its establishment, the Amazon Hope Medical Programme has delivered over 2 million free medical and dental consultations to riverine communities in this area.
We have been working in in multiple parts of Tanzania since 2012. Our school and community partnership expeditions take place in Moshi, in the Kilimanjaro region, while our medical programme operates around the islands of Lake Victoria in the Kagera region.
The Jubilee Hope Medical Programme operates out of Tanzania’s second-largest city, Mwanza, which lies on the south side of Lake Victoria. Mwanza itself is a major industrial centre and a busy port, but there are hundreds of small fishing communities with little to no access to high-quality medical care on the islands and along the 2,000-mile coastline of the lake.
Why not join one of our expeditions to Peru and Tanzania.
Find out more about how you can get involved here.
Our Christian ethos shapes how we work. We welcome everyone without discrimination regardless of faith, colour, race, sexual orientation, gender or any other distinction
Partnerships and respect are at the core of who we are and how we operate. We develop trusting, transparent and mutually-accountable, long-term partnerships
We care about impact and sustainability in all aspects of our work. We are committed to safeguarding and ensuring that our work does no harm.
We can trace the roots of Vine Trust back to a shop called Branches, which was opened in the 1980s in Bo’ness as a response to the famine in Ethiopia.
This not-for-profit gift shop funded the initial donation for the charity and continues to support Vine Trust to this day.
Since 2001, our in-country medical programmes have provided over 2.5 million consultations for members of isolated communities in the Peruvian Amazon and on Lake Victoria, while our partners Tanzania Women Research Organisation (TAWREF) have built over 140 new homes for vulnerable families.
Vine Trust is built upon the strength of our connections, and we’re hugely grateful to the partners and supporters who have been a major part of our story so far and will continue to help us write it going forwards.