(photo left: Angie with Kenyan performer Anna Mwalagho)
The Wandering Star Foundation
Angie actively supports local communities in Tanzania through her charitable foundation,
The Wandering Star Foundation. In 2005, Wandering Star provided the seed funding for
Kitumusote, a non-government organization that benefits a Maasai community with women's education and environmental awareness programs. Wandering Star continues to provide fiscal and administrative support to Kitumusote. Please visit
www.kitumusote.org to learn more.
In 2007, Wandering Star provided academic grants to youth in Tanzania and Malawi who qualified to attend accredited secondary education schools.
Angie visits Tanzania each year to provide assistance and support to the programs that have been launched through her foundation. She considers Tanzania a home away from home and the individuals she has come to know, her second family.
Be the change you wish to see...
In 2004, Angie spent a month on the ground living and working in a rural village in Tanzania. She worked with WAMATA, a non-government organization that raises HIV/AIDS with its drama group that performs stage plays and songs. She also made home visits to infected children who were orphaned by the virus. Living and working in Tengeru, she became personally connected with the community and her fellow WAMATA volunteers, many of whom had never been educated due poverty. She found illiteracy to be directly linked to the spread of HIV/AIDS. Women who had not been educated had a low sense of self worth and therefore were susceptible to sexual abuse and/or prostitution. Angie and her husband created
The Wandering Star Foundation that launched a grass-roots education program called The Center For Good Destiny. The Center for Good Destiny (CGD) is a community based grassroots organization that was created to combat poverty, illiteracy, and the spread of HIV/AIDS by providing educational services and support to adults who missed out on the opportunity to receive a secondary education. It is the first program of its kind in Tanzania introducing the GED equivalent method found in the U.S. The school began in January 2005 and currently has 60 students. Angie visits Tanzania twice a year and provides financial and managerial support via her foundation.
Angie also teamed up with a Maasai tribesman named Kesuma to create Kitumusote.
(photo right: Angie with Kesuma Kasi Kasi)
Kitumusote aims to preserve the Maasai culture and their environment by providing a much needed reforestation program and a women's education program.
Spreading the Love: Angie's favorite charities
www.littlekidsrock.org
Providing music education to inner city schools.
www.rebuildingtogether.org
Preserving housing and communities in low-income areas.