Friends-Together Inc.
Friends-Together is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit supported solely by private donations. Since 1999, we’ve empowered families through education, health initiatives, and community support, creating opportunities for children and adults alike to thrive.
🌟Friendship in Action. Hope in Community
We walk alongside community leaders to support education, healthcare, and empowerment programs rooted in dignity, connection, and love.
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🧡Hear From Our Founder
Cathy Robinson Pickett, Founder & Director, shares why hope is the heart of everything we do.
🤝We Believe: Hand in Hand, We All Make A Difference
We don’t “work for” communities — we work with them. Through long-term partnerships and genuine relationships, we support programs led by local leaders who know their communities best.
Together, we invest in opportunity, dignity, and hope.
[Meet Our Partners] (coming soon)
📌What We Do
👩⚕️ 🍎Community Health & Food Support
Monthly medical clinics, food and medicine support, and health care insurance assistance.
✂️ 🎒Women’s Skills Training & Tailoring School
Our tailoring school teaches students sewing and tailoring skills, helping them build income and independence. We provide machines, fabric, thread, classroom tools, and ongoing support so they have everything they need to succeed and to keep the program running strong.
📚⚽Education & Youth Support
Textbooks, supplies, and recreation resources — including soccer balls and activity materials — so children can learn, grow, and play with confidence.
[Learn More] (coming soon)
🌸Women & Girls Empowerment
Reusable sanitary pad kit distribution ("The Flow Project"), health education sessions, microloans, and women’s community support groups – empowering women with dignity, knowledge, and opportunity.
🌞Solar Lights for Homes & Learning
In many of the communities we serve, families live without electricity. Solar lights let children study, mothers cook safely, and families move confidently after dark.
[Learn More] (coming soon)
✉️ Postcard Project
Sometimes the smallest gesture changes everything. The Postcard Project sends uplifting postcards year-round to remind people they matter.
🌱Donate Today to Make a Better Tomorrow Your support brings hope, opportunity, and dignity to families - building better futures.🌱
✈️Service and Relief Trips
Experience friendship-based service and walk alongside our partners.
[Learn More]
📊Our Impact Together
In the past year, we achieved:
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2,900+ menstrual reusable sanitary pad kits distributed
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185 families enrolled in health insurance
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75 students received school shoes & socks
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13 tailoring students graduated – many launching their own income-building businesses
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12 monthly medical clinics & food support for vulnerable families
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300+ people reached through community education events
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25 solar lights delivered to families without electricity
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50 soccer balls and recreation supplies provided
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12 bags of school supplies provided to teachers for their classrooms
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1 Friends-Together sponsored nursing student graduated college and passed the nursing boards. She is employed as a nurse and now volunteers in the medical clinic
✈️ Come With Us to Tanzania - 2026
Our trips go far beyond meeting and observing — we participate.
Volunteers will:
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Support health & education programs
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Help assemble and distribute the reusable sanitary pad kits
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Participate in women's empowerment activities
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Help with youth activities
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Walk with local leaders, meet families, and witness hope in action
[Learn more about our next trip]
👥Stories of Friendship
“It is truly life-changing to witness people come together in friendship for one another — across continents, cultures, and circumstances.”
— Cathy, Founder, Friends-Together
Volunteer Stories
Hear directly from volunteers about the friendships and experiences that shaped their journey.
Microloan Recipients
Meet the women whose lives were changed through microloans.
[Meet Microloan Recipients] Coming Soon
Meet the tailoring student who started her own business.
[Coming Soon]
See how a family’s first health insurance changed their future.
[Coming Soon]
📱Stay Connected
Follow our journey all year long — from Tanzania to home and everywhere in between. Meet the families and leaders we walk alongside, and see how friendships grow, programs develop, and communities thrive, even when we’re not on a trip.
