Projects
LOURDES CLINIC SOLAR PROJECT COMPLETED DEC. 2025
The SCF announces the completion of our seventh solar project in northwestern Tanzania. Lourdes Clinic is a small, rural, primary care medical facility. It is 30 Km ( 18 miles) or about a 3 hour walk to the nearest small regional hospital and serves a population of around 10,000 people. Lourdes and Buhororo Clinic ( which we completed earlier this year) serve as the “front door” to medical care in Tanzania. 70 percent of healthcare delivery in Tanzania occurs in these rural settings. Rural medical clinics are where most people get their vaccinations, where babies are born and where Malaria, HIV/ AIDS and other medical issues are first diagnosed and treated. Most of these rural medical outposts have no or at best intermittent electricity. That is why we are so proud to supply free, clean, reliable 24/7 solar energy to keep the lights on, run a refrigerator and power basic medical equipment like a portable ultrasound machine. In 2025 you can’t improve medical outcomes without electricity. We believe no one should have to practice medicine in the dark.
BUHORORO CLINIC PROJECT COMPLETED NOV. 2025
Last year we decided to find a needy, small, rural clinic that was desperate for help, poor and with a patient population that matched. Last Feb Jennifer Cohen and I visited 4 rural clinics in western Kagera with minimal or no electricity. We chose a place called Buhoroho that is a 2-hr. walk from the nearest small hospital, with a growing patient load and minimal electricity. Today I’m glad to announce the Buhororo clinic project is complete and now has 24/7 free electricity and the potential to bring 21st century medicine to its patients. Just having the lights on for nighttime deliverers and a refrigerator to store vaccines and medicines will be a game changer. Having internet access for real time consultations and online education programs is a giant step forward to improved health care in outreach clinics.
RULENGE SECONDARY SCHOOL NOV. 2024
Rulenge Secondary School is a 500 coed student boarding school near the Burundi border with no running water. The SCF worked with local officials and our solar contractors in Tanzania. We privately funded a solar powered pump that pumps water to two large, elevated cisterns that gravity feeds water to the teenage students and school staff for the first time. We believe clean, accessible water is the foundation to good hygiene and public health.
Rulenge Hospital Solar Power Project 2022
NOHA Breast Cancer Clinical Research Study 2022 - Ongoing
Working with Univ. of New England, Maine Medical Center Research Institute and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Moshi, Tanzania the SCF is proud to sponsor breast cancer research directed at improving the diagnosing and treatment of Breast Cancer in resource challenged countries like Tanzania.
St. Claire’s Secondary School Solar Project Completed 2021
On April 6th 2021 the St Claire’s Secondary School for Girls finally had running water thanks to a project funded by the Sandy Christman Foundation.
Phase 2 - Biharamulo Hospital Solar Project 2020
Solar Power comes to Biharamulo Hospital in Tanzania.
Electrical Production: 90 kWh/day
Phase 1 - Biharamulo Hospital Solar Project 2018 - 2019
Solar Power comes to Biharamulo Hospital in Tanzania.
Electrical Production: 30-50 kWh/day
Project Tanzania 2016
Brought a portable Ultrasound Machine, donated to us by The Sonosite Company, to Biharamulo Hospital and introduced FAST exam technology for quick, inexpensive diagnosis.
Project Tanzania 2015
We finally delivered the 40 ft shipping container! See the blog and read about the adventure in “Crossing Tanzania“.
Project Tanzania 2014
Transporting a second 40ft. shipping container to Kagera Tanzania.
Arrival date: 10/2014
Project Tanzania 2009
Financed the transportation and delivery of a 40 ft. shipping container of donated medical goods from Vermont hospitals to the Kagera region of Tanzania.
The Sandy Christman Scholarship
Sponsored at the University of New England.
2003- 2009
The Sandy Christman Lecture Series
A lecture series sponsored by the Sandy Christman Foundation.
2002-2010
