The One Person Project

10/12/2026

Thank you so much to our long time supporter - Dianne at Beauty & the Brit Esthetics for donating gift certificates for our Nov 7th celebration and fundraiser! ♥️

The dinner dance is at the Summerland Legion.

Tickets available now! Details in the comments.

10/11/2026

Order your tickets now so you don't miss out! ADDED BONUS - the Bobby Bovenzi Drummers & Dancers!

We are going back to our celebratory roots with a get-together at the Summerland Legion! Our first *official TOPP fundraiser was at the Legion in April 2007 after our first and only Car Rally! We went on to hold many FUNdraisers there and are delighted to be going back!

Tickets will be available soon - and we know they will be snapped up!

*Our friends and supporters Sandra & Roland hosted a New Year's Eve fundraiser at the Barley Mill pub in Penticton in 2006 to raise funds for World Vision. As a warm-up to creating The One Person Project, Brenda had recruited Okanagan & Canada-wide sponsors for 58 WV children in the Isegehe region of Tanzania.

09/04/2026

We are going back to our celebratory roots with a get-together at the Summerland Legion! Our first *official TOPP fundraiser was at the Legion in April 2007 after our first and only Car Rally! We went on to hold many FUNdraisers there and are delighted to be going back!

Tickets will be available soon - and we know they will be snapped up!

*Our friends and supporters Sandra & Roland hosted a New Year's Eve fundraiser at the Barley Mill pub in Penticton in 2006 to raise funds for World Vision. As a warm-up to creating The One Person Project, Brenda had recruited Okanagan & Canada-wide sponsors for 58 WV children in the Isegehe region of Tanzania.

09/02/2026

💚 Congratulations to the Grade 7 graduates of the Royal Academy Boarding Primary School!

🩵 We are proud to support Royal Academy and once again celebrate this important milestone with its graduates. Their hard work, dedication, and perseverance deserve to be acknowledged.

💛 One thing that makes the Academy special is its English-medium education from primary school. In most schools, children learn primarily in Kiswahili during primary school and then must make a significant transition to English when they enter secondary school.

💚 This change is extremely challenging, particularly when students are suddenly expected to learn new and more complex subjects in a different language.

🩵 At Royal Academy, students build their confidence and academic foundation in English from an early age, helping prepare them for the transition to secondary education and beyond.

💛 Congratulations, Grade 7 graduates! And congratulations to Emmanuel and the teachers. 🙌

08/24/2026

This scene is easy to take for granted. But very few (if any) children attending regular schools in Tanzania have the opportunity to be tutored.

These children have come to Simon’s from the worst of circumstances - often from the streets, and always from extreme poverty.

The older children are studying with Mr F. for an important upcoming school exam.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has helped make this possible. 🩵

08/20/2026

💚 Our thanks to those across the miles: Four members of the One Person Committee live in Summerland, B.C. which was recently evacuated because of a fierce forest fire.

We are home now, and we are deeply grateful that our homes were spared. Sadly, about 150 homes were lost or damaged, and our hearts are with everyone who has been affected by this devastating fire.

During the almost 2 weeks of evacuation, Brenda received messages of concern, prayers, and hope from people we have supported or met through our work in Tanzania and Rwanda. We were deeply touched to know that, even from thousands of miles away, people were thinking of us.

We are home. We are safe. We are grateful.

Thank you to our friends in Tanzania, Rwanda, and around the world for reaching out to Brenda and to our Page.

(Alfred,Yvonne and Praise live in a nearby town, so they were safe. 🩵 )

08/01/2026

Over the past 20 years, so many wonderful young people have volunteered with The One Person Project - giving their time, sharing their energy, and helping to make a difference!

This slideshow includes just a sample of the many young volunteers who have been part of TOPP’s story. To every one of you: thank you! Your contribution, whether large or small, has truly helped create a lasting impact.

We couldn’t include everyone, so if you volunteered with TOPP as a youth - or if your child did — please add a photo in the comments. We would love to celebrate even more of the young people who have helped us along the way! 💙

07/18/2026

DROP SOME PICS IN THE COMMENTS! If you have been a volunteer on a One Person trip - it is highly likely that Brenda helped you book your flights, booked your accommodations - and even planned the extra curricular trips that began to take place in 2009! A massive undertaking - but she appreciated having honed her organizational skills.🤣 And loved being able to help the volunteers have an experience of a lifetime.

As with the volunteer time in Kahama - the adventures afterwards weren't always plain sailing - but there are certainly many treasured memories. We would love it if you helped to celebrate our 20 year anniversary by sharing your photos and stories here.

PICTURED IN THIS POST: Lake Victoria, Serengeti National Park, Gombe National Park, and Zanzibar.

NOTE: When you check out the photos in the comments - look at the 'replies' as they contain more images.

07/11/2026

DEE: I was part of the start up in 2006. Involved with all but one of the shipping containers - collecting donations, packing, loading, organizing then reorganizing several times (lol). I also helped with a couple of gala preparations.

Congratulations to Brenda, Denise and Sheena for a steadfast 20-years with TOPP!

(PHOTOS IN THE COMMENTS.)

07/03/2026

MELINDA: Happy 20-year anniversary to the One Person Project.
I began my journey because of (committee member) Angela, and the Amani Pen Pal Program. The children I wrote to were living with HIV/AIDS and were attending the clinic at the Kahama Hospital for medical care. I wrote to the children and learned about the program through Philomena Shatta, a nurse at the hospital.

I loved being part of this program as it became a personal journey as I was meeting and corresponding with individual kids and learning about their families. I was learning about Kahama. I know there are so many layers to a program such as this but my journey was on an individual basis with the kids.

I wrote letters and sent gifts. I learned how to quilt and made each of my kids a quilt. I filled up tote containers and learned about shipping containers and the expenses involved in sending a container halfway round the world.

Me and my own kid did numerous fundraising efforts in the community to help out where we could. It's an experience I'll always remember.

I know there are lots of charities in the world and ways to help. But for me, the personal experiences I gained from writing and supporting individual children: Peter Paul, Kulwa, Mwanaidi, Halima, Chausiku, Elleni, Jesca, Janethi, Jacqueline, Nasra and Madalari - will stay with me forever.

Thanks for everything you do. It's been amazing.

(PHOTOS & MORE INFO IN THE COMMENTS.)