Mainsprings' Song Project

Mainsprings was founded in Tanzania by Chris Gates in 2006, originally as a home for a few orphaned and vulnerable girls. Today, Mainsprings is devoted to effecting change throughout the entire community, for both children and adults, realizing that an entire community needs to be prosperous in order to ensure no child has to live a life of extreme poverty. They operate their flagship campus, in the original village of Kitongo, and have begun developing a second campus in a different village called Kahunda, approximately three hours west of the Kitongo campus. Hundreds of children receive a top-ranked education and nutritious meals daily, thousands of patients receive much-needed medical care throughout the year, more than 75 East Africans are employed full-time, dozens of farmers learn how to live more profitable lives, and district-wide programs ensure that thousands of children and their families are equipped with the tools they need to escape the extreme poverty that is their life. Mainsprings is a movement that is creating waves of change across East Africa and strives to be a catalyst for change in even more communities across the area in the next several years.


Over the past summer a group of Bronxville School students visited Mainsprings and were all greatly touched. The sheer positivity and happiness the students of Mainsprings exuded was unprecedented. One thing that hit all of the Bronxville Students strongly was the power and beauty of the Mainsprings girls’ voices. Every night the girls of the Mainsprings Home gather before dinner for prayers, reciting verses from the Bible and joining in song. These songs are centered around faith, hope and joy. Recently, we Bronxville Students have created Youtube videos with recordings of some of these very songs. Our goal is to use these songs to bring awareness of, and fundraise for Mainsprings, while empowering these very girls by sharing their voices with the world.


While Mainsprings has been extremely successful, donations are always needed for school-related projects. For example, donations to this GoFundMe would help Mainsprings with their expansion of a second campus. Donations would also fund several specific school related projects. Finally, donations would be used to help expand the music program at Mainsprings, which allows students to connect and enjoy each other's company, while growing themselves.