The One New Heart Tanzania
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Our impact

We measure progress by the children reached, families supported, health workers strengthened and systems improved through our work and partnerships.

Our impact since 2019

Turning heart care into real change.

Our work helps people find heart problems, connect to specialist care and access treatment.

1,500+

People screened

Helping find heart problems earlier.

Through outreach camps, we bring heart screening closer to communities that may have limited access to specialist services.

2025 outreach

150+

People referred for specialist care

Connecting people to the care they need next.

Screening is only the beginning. We help ensure people identified with possible heart conditions are connected to specialist assessment and care.

2025 referrals

200+

Children given heart treatment

Helping children access life-changing heart care.

Since 2019, our work has helped children access the treatment they need for their heart conditions.

Since 2019

Where we work

Areas reached through our programmes

Select a place on the map to see the camps, operations and partnerships there.

MbeyaNjombeRuvumaKigomaKataviRukwaKageraMtwaraMaraArushaKilimanjaroTangaLindiPwaniDar-Es-SalaamZanzibar South and CentralKaskazini-UngujaZanzibar WestKusini-PembaKaskazini-PembaMorogoroDodomaManyaraSingidaTaboraIringaMwanzaSimiyuGeitaShinyangaKenyaUgandaRwandaBurundiZambiaMalawiMozambiqueLake VictoriaLake TanganyikaLake NyasaIndian Ocean
  • Surgery and catheter procedures
  • Screening camp
  • Referral for treatment
  • Partnership

Figures come from our published mission reports and annual reports.

8 places · 14 activities

Dodoma

Dodoma Region · 7 activities

  1. May 2026Children's heart screening and surgery campSurgery

    Benjamin Mkapa Hospital

    Screening and heart operations for children at the camp where Catherine had her heart repaired.

    Read Catherine's story
  2. October 2024Visit by Mission BambiniPartnership

    Two children's heart surgeons from Mission Bambini visited to plan a long-term collaboration.

    With Mission Bambini (Italy)

    Read the news
  3. November 2023Surgical and catheter missionSurgery · 8 surgeries

    Benjamin Mkapa Hospital

    8surgeries

    Eight children's heart operations at Benjamin Mkapa Hospital.

    Read the 2023 report
  4. March 2023Children's heart screening campScreening · 78 children screened

    Benjamin Mkapa Hospital

    78children screened

    With For Hearts and Souls (USA)

    Read the mission report
  5. January 2022Children's heart screening campScreening · 32 children screened

    Benjamin Mkapa Hospital

    32children screened

    With For Hearts and Souls (USA)

    Read the mission report
  6. July 2021First children's heart surgery missionSurgery

    Benjamin Mkapa Hospital

    Catheter procedures and the hospital's first open-heart operations on children. Daniel, Tariq, Siham and Shuwana were treated here.

    With Visiting team from the United States

    Read the mission report
  7. April 2021First children's catheter missionSurgery · 3 catheter procedures

    Benjamin Mkapa Hospital

    3catheter procedures

    The hospital's first catheter procedures on children.

    With For Hearts and Souls (USA)

    Read the mission report

How our work creates change

  1. Screening

    Portable echo and ECG at a hospital near home.

  2. Diagnosis

    A specialist reads the scan and explains it to the family.

  3. Referral

    A referral to a cardiac centre, with help for the family to get there.

  4. Treatment

    Surgery or a catheter procedure, in Tanzania or abroad.

  5. Recovery

    Intensive care and the ward, with the family beside the child.

  6. Follow-up

    Clinic visits and medication for as long as they are needed.

Two clinicians examine a small child with a handheld ultrasound probe at the bedside
A child with oxygen tubing and monitoring leads rests in a hospital bed
A girl in a patterned dress stands in a hospital corridor, holding a cup

All reports

Our accounts are independently audited and our reports are published in full.

Next

Priorities to 2030

  1. Scale what works

    More screening camps and heart treatment camps inside Tanzania, plus mobile heart services for rural districts.

  2. Build the workforce

    Expand nursing and health worker training.

  3. Grow the model

    Grow One Heart Travel and the Foundation so that more of the work is paid for by our own income.

  4. Enhancing advocacy

    Strengthen data, research and policy engagement so that early detection and referral become part of routine child health services.