FOCUS ON TANZANIA: KILWA KISIWANI RUINS

In 2011, the American people sponsored a $700,000.00 USD (1,132,000,000.00 billion Tanzanian shillings) grant to the World Monuments Fund (WMF) under the U.S. Department of State's Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) large grant program. The grant supports a project titled "Conservation of the Ruins of the 9th-Century City of Kilwa Kisiwani," submitted by the World Monuments Fund. Tanzania was one of only three nations worldwide selected for the 2011 AFCP large grant program for the preservation of ancient sites of global or national significance, which also included India and Jordan. The grant is the single largest cultural preservation funding offered by the U.S. to Tanzania, and supports public interest to preserve Kilwa Kisiwani.