About Engarre

Engarre
Registered office: Brodská 416/5, 841 04 Bratislava – Karlova Ves, Slovakia
Company ID (IČO): 54 373 549
Registered by: Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic
info@engarre.org

Engarre is a Slovak civic association that works in Maasai communities in the Lengusero area of northern Tanzania. Our base is the village of Mbogoi, deep in the bush, and that is the whole point: we live where we work, so we know what people actually need rather than guessing from an office in Europe.
We founded Engarre when we realised that universal, "desk-made" solutions from Europe simply do not work in the Tanzanian bush. If we wanted to truly help in Mbogoi, we first had to live there, listen, and respect the local way of life. We are not here to build monuments. We solve the practical things that people in this part of Lengusero actually lack, so they can live a better and more dignified life in their rapidly changing world.
We believe in aid that is direct and personal. That is why we do not operate as an anonymous sender of funds, but as a team that physically implements and monitors every project on the ground.

Two forces are reshaping life in Lengusero at the same time. The first is water: rainfall patterns have shifted, drought returns every year, and when a dam or a water source fails, an entire village loses its only supply. The second is the speed of modern civilisation. Roads, phones, offices, traders and money arrived without asking whether anyone had invited them, and nobody prepared the community for that change.
Neither problem has a single solution. What we can do is remove the specific obstacles that stop people from coping: a classroom roof that is about to collapse, adults who cannot read a contract, a broken dam, children with no benches to sit on, water that makes people ill.

Every project starts the same way. We encounter a real local problem, and at the same time we see a realistic way to improve it with our own experience and hands. Work is carried out with local craftsmen and local materials wherever possible, so the money stays in the community and the result can be repaired locally.

• Adult education. Launched in the summer of 2024. Reading, writing and basic arithmetic, enough that a person is not cheated at the first opportunity.
• Water infrastructure. Repairs to the dam on the local lake after it failed and left a village without its only water source, and work towards a long-term replacement.
• School repairs and equipment. A classroom roof rebuilt after we found it on the verge of collapse, and 30 new school benches made by local craftsmen.
• Basic health care and prevention. Access to clean drinking water, malaria prevention, and simple equipment - the things that decide whether a body can fight off an illness at all.

A detailed description of each project, including what is finished, what is running and what is being prepared, is on our Projects page.

We have no paid staff and no offices. Our members travel to Tanzania and manage the work in person, so we pay no intermediaries. Contributions can be made on our Donate page. Our annual reports for 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 are published below, together with our statutes, code of ethics and registration documents.

Our work is driven by a combination of Slovak coordination and hands-on experience directly from the field:

• Renáta Hloušková: Founder and the driving force who started and manages the entire project.
• Anna Budajová: Takes care of our paperwork and organization to keep everything running smoothly.
• Rasťo Hloušek: Oversees the ecological and environmental side of our activities.
• Miro Vojtek: Handles technical matters and everything that needs to be physically built or fixed in the field.
• Sekenoi Saramba (Tanzania): In charge of logistics and manages the work directly in Lengusero.
• Roda Saramba (Tanzania): Our key link to the community of Maasai women and mothers in Mbogoi.

Engarre is an officially registered civic association (Company ID: 54 373 549) based in Bratislava.
In Tanzania, we operate under a valid NGO licence (No. I-NGO/R/5759).
Our statutes and activity reports are available for inspection at any time.

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