Health and Education for Development (HEfDe) is a Non-Government Organization (NGO) registered in year 2007 with registration number OONGO/1184. HEfDe operates to achieve its vision to see a Tanzania with healthy and educated citizens through empowering the community to overcomes health and education problems that emerge from the various diseases and ignorance that cause communities to live in critical poverty as individual, family, group, community and nation as a whole. Organization is aiming to achieve his vision for providing health education, and life style and ensuring that community comprised of people with good health by using food, medicine and other objects of nature that are found in the environment they live for quality health and education for all.

Afya na Elimu kwa Maendeleo (HEfDe) ni Shirika zisizo za serikali (NGO) iliyosajiliwa mwaka 2007 na idadi OONGO/1184 usajili. HEfDe kazi ili kufikia ndoto yake ya kuona Tanzania pamoja na elimu ya afya kwa njia ya kuwawezesha wananchi wa jamii ya wanaoshinda na elimu ya matatizo ya afya   kwamba kuibuka kutoka mbalimbali ya magonjwa na ujinga kwamba kusababisha jamii kuishi katika umaskini muhimu kama mtu binafsi, familia, jamii ya kundi na taifa kwa ujumla. Shirika lengo ni kufikia maono yake kwa ajili ya kutoa elimu, afya na mtindo wa maisha na kuhakikisha kuwa jamii zikiwemo za watu na afya njema kwa kutumia chakula, dawa na vitu vingine wa asili zinazopatikana katika mazingira wanaishi kwa ajili ya afya bora na elimu kwa wote .