top of page
Eat Rice for Upendo
Share your table. Change their world.
Eat Rice is a simple community fundraising campaign built around sharing a rice-based meal. This October, host a meal at home, at work, in your community or through a participating cafe or restaurant, and help raise funds for Upendo Foundation’s food and education initiatives in Tanzania.
How it works
-
Register your interest
-
Choose your date and meal style
-
Invite friends, family, colleagues or community
-
Share the donation link or QR code
-
Host your meal and raise funds for Upendo
Ways to take part
Host a meal at home
Invite friends, family or your local community to share a simple rice-based meal. Ask guests to donate what they may have spent eating out, or share the campaign donation link.
Cafes and Restaurants
Choose one day to run a rice-based meal, lunch special or dinner event, with a small donation from each campaign meal supporting Upendo Foundation.
A typical meal of Tanzania shared at the Upendo home
What Upendo provides
We want to make it easy for you to take part. Upendo can provide:
-
Campaign flyer
-
Donation link or QR code
-
Simple hosting instructions
-
Meal ideas
-
Children’s placemat artwork
-
Social media wording to help promote your event
For cafes and restaurants, we can also provide a digital promo tile and share your campaign meal through Upendo’s social media.
When? any meal, lunch, dinner
October 2026
Ready to host an Eat Rice meal or run a campaign special?
Register your interest and we’ll be in touch with more details, including resources to help you plan and promote your event.
Our fundraising focus this year
As you may already know, we recently bought a block of land in Tanzania, to start creating our own home, providing security and a sure future for our children.
Our aim this year is to raise money to fence the 9 acres for the children’s safety and to keep the Maasai livestock off the crops we're intending to plant.
Watch this video from Faith, Director of Upendo Home, as she talks about the land.
bottom of page