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| CHILDREN - YOUTH |
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Amani Childrens
Home - Bonite (Don Bosco) Road, Karanga area, near Magereza.
Tel: 075 2220637, P.O.Box 6515 Moshi
Email: info@amanikids.org. Amani, which means "peace"
in Swahili, is home to nearly 100 orphans and street-children,
boys and girls of all ages. Amani is a small, non-profit NGO
rescuing children from homelessness and reuniting them with
their families whenever possible. Contributions are used to
feed, clothe, and educate the kids. Visitors are welcome in
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Light in Africa
- Boma Ng'ombe, Hai - on the road to Arusha.
Tel: 0754511893
Email: lynnkaziaelliot@hotmail.com
Light in Africa reaches the community through children's homes
and various outreach programs. Children's homes:
Babies and children are provided housing, food, clothing and
education in a loving environment. Outreach Programs:
Boma Kids Club:
Every Saturday unsupported orphans and children come to play,
receive medical attention, are fed, and attend a program led
by a local pastor. Medical Assistance:
A dispensary, material support and medical treatment are provided
to villagers on the foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Health education
is offered regarding malaria prevention and general health.
Masaai Outreach program:
Provides food, a dispensary and medical treatment, as well as
financial assistance for immediate treatment in hospitals for
urgent cases. Education on topics such as HIV/AIDS, general
health and nutrition. Disability Outreach/Parent Support:
Meetings for parents of children with disabilities, information
by professionals on child health and development. Workshops
and encouragement, as well as in-home support after the workshop. |
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Mkombozi Centre for
Street Children
Saba Saba/Rau area. Tel: (027)2751626, or 0754679078
Email: info@mkombozi.org
Mkombozi (meaning "liberator, emancipator" in Swahili)
works to help Tanzania's street children through housing, education,
research, advocacy and outreach. Initially established in 1997
as a live-in residential center and safe haven for street children
in Moshi, Mkombozi has expanded its vision and mandate significantly
over the years. In addition to working with children already
on the streets, Mkombozi works to end the abuse and neglect
of children, and to ensure that children's dignity and rights
are recognized. It strives to identify opportunities for intervention
before a child migrates to the street. Volunteers, visitors
and donations very welcome. |
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Maisha Mapya Education
Centre
Tel: (+255) 0784-344238 email: info@maisha-mapya.org
The Centre is on Old Moshi Road, not far from the YMCA roundabout.
Every year thousands of Tanzanian children finish their primary
education with no prospects of continuing their education.
This can be because of failing of the exams or the lack of
money to go on to private schools. We especially help those
families, who have not the resources to pay for the education
of their children. We are providing our students with education
and life skills during the 2 year course. With these new skills
and knowledge they should be able to do something meaningful
in life. |
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Village Education
Project Kilimanjaro
P.O Box 737, Marangu Email: project@kiliproject.org
The For many children in the villages around Kilimanjaro,
primary education is the only form of education they will
receive. Therefore, their primary education is vital for their
foundation in life. The Village Education Project Kilimanjaro
(VEPK) has been working with the local District Education
Office since 1994 to improve the physical infrastructure of
the school, assist English teaching and provide books and
equipment. The Project has also set up a Vocational Training
School to teach children skills to enable them to earn a living,
and a Computer Centre to provide courses for adults and children.
The craft shop and cafe at Marangu Mtoni sells crafts made
by the students at the Vocational Training School, as well
as other local crafts. The shop and the cafe are located on
the edge of a valley with the river Una running below. There
is balcony seating where you can enjoy snacks and refreshments.
Next to the shop, two traditional Chagga Huts have been built
to show how the Chagga tribe used to live. All proceeds from
the Craft Shop and Cafe supports the project's activities.
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Mkombozi
Vocational Training Centre (M.V.T.C)
Moshi Municipality, Pasua Ward, Sukari Road/Boma Mbuzi Street.
Tel: 0754309908, 0754025233 Email: kakaibrah@yahoo.com
The centre strives to empower youths and adults, to assess
their needs and develop problem solving skills related to
some of the following areas: poverty alleviation; reduction
of communicable diseases; human rights awareness; reduction
of women's workload; use of simple technologies and sustainability
in the community. Programs are offered in areas of vocational
training; skill sharing and problem solving among adult women;
empowerment of out-of-school-youth to solve their problems,
self employment; health education for the Pasua community
on reproductive health, nutrition, HIV/AIDS and STD's. |
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Moshi Chapel
Children's Centre Tel: (027)2752431
Near Moshi Club, as going if to the International School but
without turning right onto Lema Road. Children's home with outpatients
hostel for KCMC patients relatives. |
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Rafiki Village
operated by Rafiki Foundation Inc.
Located 10 mins west of Moshi, on the Arusha Road at the Machame
turn off. Tel: 0755494388, Email: ngpilot@aol.com
The Rafiki Village is one of ten operated across Africa. In
their village they raise and educate 160 Tanzanian orphaned
or vulnerable children, teach vocational skills to 120 teenaged
girls and boys, and conduct quarterly medical clinics for the
surrounding area. If you are interested in helping please contact
them via above details - help is always welcome. |
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Afrishare
Solutions supports ongoing community projects
through volunteers, eco-tourism, exchange program and cultural
understanding program in Tanzania in partnership with local
community, organizations and the government efforts; Bringing
people together to work hand in hand for the sustainability
of all people's unique needs. |
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Kilimanjaro
Youth Organisation (YOJEG) - Mkombozi Vocational Training
Centre, at M.V.T.C, Sukai Ward/BomaMbuzi Street.
Tel: 0754025233 or Email: kakaibrah@yahoo.com
YOJEG is an umbrella organisation for Kilimanjaro youth groups
involved in education, training and employment of youth. Lobbying
and advocacy initiatives with the government on youth-related
issues. |
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Upendo Welfare
Centre - Emma Grocery Road, Shanty Town
Also known as Kishari Boy's Home. |
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Mbokomu Youth
Arts Group, Kibo Road, close to askari roundabout, opposite
Christ the King Catholic Church.
Tel: 0755651441, Email: mbokomuarts@yahoo.com
Youth and women are taught arts involving work with banana leaves,
painting and batik. There is no fee for instruction. |
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White Orange Youth
Centre
Majengo across from Majengo Secondary School.
Tel: 0754090699, Email:whiteorangeyouth@gmail.com
White Orange Youth is a Tanzanian non-governmental organization
at grassroots level. It is made up of domestic and international
volunteers who believe that empowered youth can work together
to eliminate HIV/AIDS. Contributions are used to support programs
which include providing HIV/AIDS and life skills information
to youth, empowering youth to be peer educators, and encouraging
them to work with local community members, other NGO's and government
leaders. Volunteers are most welcome. Karibu sana! |
| WOMEN |
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Pamoja Tunaweza Women's
Center P.O Box 8434, Moshi
tel: : 0732-973712, email: pamoja@tunaweza.org
Pamoja Tunaweza Women's Center opened for clients in the beginning
of November 2007, we are a staff compiled of health and social
workers.
Our focus is to provide support to marginalized women and
their
children suffering from gender based violence or being victims
of HIV.
We are in partnership with KWIECO (offering legal services),
cooperating with other NGO's in the region and the Social
Welfare to
assess the needy.
At our center we provide individual and group counseling,
education on various aspects; such as HIV/AIDS and gender
issues. We also provide
free HIV testing and counselling at our center for men and
women, with
strict confidentiality. |
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Kwieco Women's
Information Centre, Kawawa Street,
Tel: (027)2751121, Email: kwieco@africaonline.co.tz
This organisation offers legal advice and counselling to people
in the Kilimanjaro region who are unable to afford it. |
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Moyo Mmoja
Women's Center
Tel: (027)2751934, 0754303984, 0754419501
Email: moyomojawc@hotmail.com, Training centre for women without
husbands. |
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NAFGEM (Network
against Female Genital Mutilation)
3rd Floor, Tanzania House Bank building, Boma Road.
Tel: (027)2755652, Email: nafgem@kicheko.com
NAFGEM designs and provides sensitisation, awareness and education
programs to grassroots communities and provides workshops with
the aim of eradicating female genital mutilation. NAFGEM works
collaboratively with other anti FGM organisations to collect
data, exchange information and resources, and to advocate for
the eradication of other harmful traditions against women.
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TUSONGE
CED, Mafuta Street (Internal
Printers), Moshi.
Empowering marginalized groups, forge strategic partnership
with some existing alliances like LGAs, CBOs, NGOs and FBOs
in a view to offer participatory capacity building on community
economic development issues. Mainstream HIV/AIDS, human rights
and leadership skills to women entrepreneurs. Identify and
develop Action Research processes which will promote joint
understanding of the REAL community needs.
Phone 027 2754158 and email: tusonge@gmail.com
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Women Education
& Economic Centre (WEECE)
On the KCMC Road, near Sokoine Primary School.
Tel: 0754698423, Email: weece2003@yahoo.com
WEECE focuses on gender equality issues and the employment of
women, especially in rural Rau Ward. Programs and projects aim
at strengthening and co-ordinating networking between women
based on their personal and family needs and economic projects
and marketing strategies; initiating community health projects,
training in leadership, assertiveness and management issues,
research and advocacy. Through small loans to women, WEECE empowers
women to establish a business to earn money of their own. |
| DISABILITY NGOs |
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Kilimanjaro
Association of the Spinally Injured (KASI)
YWCA, near Standard Chartered Bank.Tel: 0754268149
Email: kasi_kili@yahoo.com
Kasi aims to rehabilitate and socially integrate people of spinal
cord injuries, and works to prevent new injuries. This includes
counselling, assisting members to access wheelchairs etc. They
support establishment of income generating activities. Membership
is open to persons with spinal cord injuries who reside in the
Kilimanjaro region. |
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Moshi Disabled
Network, Kaunda Street, Tel: 0784299604
Email:moshi_disabled_network@hotmail.com
Membership is open to residents of the Moshi District with physical
or sensory disabilities that keep them from daily activities.
Assistance is given through pooled resources and training, with
the aim of integrating individuals back into the community.
Goods manufactured by members provide revenue to purchase additional
materials, making it a self sustainable organisation |
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Moshi Lions
Club - Tel: 0754260348
The Lions Club is an international organisation that funds specific
projects to assist people with various disabilities. |
| AIDS |
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Kiwakkuki Moshi
Aids Information Centre, Makinga Street.
Tel: (027) 2751504
This NGO was formed as a voluntary response of women in and
around Moshi to the increasing severity of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
and the issues facing women as a result. Health education and
counselling are available from volunteers at the Moshi Aids
Information Centre. |
| PORTERS |
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Kilimanjaro
Porter's Assistance Project Ltd
- Hotel Da Costa Tel: 0754 817615
Running services for porters to improve their safety, and informing
tourists of correct porter treatment and trekking culture.
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