The “Kigoma talents Childcare orphanage ” orphanage is situated in Kigoma, one of the most isolated and undeveloped areas of Tanzania. It gives hospitality to children and teenagers from 2 to 24 years old (the age of the orphans is more or less approximate due to the lack of documents regarding the birth of each child). The children belong to different ethnic and religious groups, and most of them are orphans because of AIDS.
Some children arrived at the Kigoma talents Childcare orphanage after they had been living on the streets, where they put up with the most humiliating and hardest jobs. The children and teenagers who are orphans or abandoned are reported by the police or the local villages , when nobody is able to take care of them. Sometimes they still have relatives, but they are extremely poor and in many cases they are already taking care of other children of the family.
Kigoma talents Childcare orphanage is under the kigoma talents care foundation and it is owned by the Tanzanzian Government. It was founded in 2014 and regist ed 2017 by the educator EMERSON EZEKIEL RUTENDELI took responsibility for the orphanage and started a adoption program in kigoma , to support the children of Kigoma talents Childcare orphanage Home . Since then, the project is alive thanks to the financing of those who, sensitive to solidarity, want to contribute to the children’s maintenance. Today, Kigoma talents Childcare orphanage Home provides the Home with medical assistance, food, recreational and cultural activities (choir, acrobatics), school education (primary, secondary, college, vocational training), environmental education and private tuitions and developing talents for many children and youth to the street ,schools,colleges, clubs and youth groups . Moreover, we support the salaries of the Kigoma talents Childcare orphanage Home centre workers each of whom has a numerous family to maintain.
We started specific small-scale breeding projects for cows, chicken, and ducks. We take care of maintaining the structures, carry out community surveys, psycho-pedagogic assistance, community integration, and planning the entry of boys and girls in the working life. We provide Kigoma talents Childcare orphanage Home with clothes, shoes, linen and scholastic materials. More activities are carried out by our Organization to guarantee an optimal functionality.
Coordinated by the social workers , the orphanage consists of a kitchen (with charcoal cooker) joined to the refectory, a two small classroom, one dormitories with bathroom, a office, one storerooms, a, a lodging for two social assistant (who are husband and wife), From Monday to Friday children attend school, some of them in the town of Kigoma, others in one of the bordering towns. After lunch they study with some teachers employed by us to integrate their school curriculum; afterwards children take care of their surroundings: they look after the domestic animals, they learn to cultivate vegetables or to do housework. Children with relatives still alive get in touch with them, and once a year they have the possibility of going back to their villages. This is organized by us in order not to loose their family ties and to make the reintroduction in their community easier. After the primary school (that lasts seven years) we direct children towards the secondary or the technical school (vocational training), depending on their ability. They have the possibility of becoming electricians, mechanics, carpenters, dressmakers, etc... In Kigoma there one technical schools: for this reason girls and boys who attend these schools catch the train everyday or, most of the time, they sleep in lodgings annexed to the schools. In these cases we pay a fee and supply the girls and boys with all they need, even money to buy soap, hygienic wipes, razors, etc. After secondary school, boys and girls can decide to join a college, such as: tourism, nautical, art,social worker course . Periodically they come back to the Kigoma talents Childcare orphanage Home centre, their home. After they finish school we buy them all they need to start a job (a sewing machine, tools for carpenters, electricians, etc.) and we pay the rent of a room in a family for a whole year. We also buy a mattress, a table and a chair.
The most widespread diseases among children of this area are dermatitis, intestinal infections, respiratory infections, malaria and typhus. Malaria, in spite of mosquito-nets, strikes children even three or four times a year. It’s not always necessary to take children to the hospital every time, as the testing can be carried out at the nearest clinic (on payment) and the disease can be treated at the Sanganigwa centre. After treatment, the children need a long convalescence period to fully recover. Over the last years typhus has became more frequent and strikes scholastic age children. We think that they are infected at school, where they drink un-boiled running water.
(We buy AIDS medicines at Tanga Town (about 1800 km from us). Medicines are mailed to us )monthly.
Most of the children have seen their parents die from AIDS, in other cases they were neglected or nobody knows if their parents are still alive. Sometimes they have been living with a relative who was unable to bring them up: many often they were left alone all day long without food, or they have been living with prostitutes or criminals who abused them. One of our children saw his mother killed for ethnic reasons. Children who suffered for these reasons need psycho-pedagogical support. We consider continuing with this practice very important, because is the only way for children to overcome their traumas, to develop their self-esteem, to strengthen their personalities.
Furthermore, Kigoma talents Childcare orphanage is a concrete and important place where homeless children come (about 200); they all come from Kigoma and we try to involve them in social activities (choir, acrobatics, psycho-pedagogical program). We hope in this way to keep them busy and to give them a chance. In case of medical emergencies or urgent surgery we try to do our best by intervening and sometimes we contribute by giving them food.
Sustaining the project in the long term
Water is very problem to our village and peoples suffering 20 kilometers from the river and the water it's not cleaning cause different disease,also water is very importantfor this place for orphanage uses and it will support construction of orphanage schoo,dormitories, offices,hospital and colleges after having guaranteed basic support and education, this year we have buying land for construction of orphanage school English medium from class 1 to class 7 planned to guarantee that the children grow in an environment similar to school , dormitories, refectory and communal rooms.
We also plan to create new work opportunities (such as soap and paper manufacturing), and to construct and organize workshops for dressmakers, arts and crafts, clock repairers, and also for repairing tires, bicycles, soldering, carpentry, etc..
The Kigoma talents Childcare orphanage centre needs a food and drinks areas and shops to sell merchandise and to offer professional competences in order to make the Kigoma talents Childcare orphanage Home centre autonomous.
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The demands for the adequate growth and maintenance of Kigoma talents childcare orphanage are still numerous: workers need to be kept up-to-date, we must assure psycho-pedagogical support to the children all year round, we should increase the staff, we need a bus to be able to transport the children and also to transport hay for the cows and coal for cooking. We have to install a solar heating system (electricity and cookers), to undertake a socio-economic study focusing on the labor demands in the region, in order to favor our girls and boys after studies or training. We need to create new opportunities for them such as paper and soap manufacturing, shoes making, etc., to create workshops for the sale of merchandise with the aim of making the centre autonomous.
Moreover, we must guarantee a better life for street-children. The kigoma talents care foundation plays an active role in supporting the street children of the city both through training programmes and micro credit projects (medical assistance and food).
The project concerning the Kigoma street children still requires the basics (buildings, food, medical care, education).
To allow the children’s home to function properly, and for the sake of the children themselves, visits are discouraged by all the partners in the project. Sadly, due to the invasiveness of western tourists, the Kigoma talents Childcare orphanage staff have been obliged to say that the orphanage is not a zoo. The privacy and safety of the children are as important for us as their healthy and peaceful development. Under certain circumstances visits to the children’s home can be arranged with the project partners as a direct consequence of the sincerity of the donor and the specific project presented and supported.
In the children to eat well, go to school and receive medical treatment is essential guarantee continuity to our project and contribute monthly to the orphanage’s expenses.
With a monthly contribution of 51 €uro, - 0,35 €uro a day! – you can help the children to grow with greater hope for the future. Your precious aid will be used to offer them food, medical treatment and the opportunity to study. You’ll receive a group photo of the children and we’ll update you annually on their progress. You can make your donation to our post office account
Our commitment to helping these children is absolute
We believe that, in order to make the economic aid for food, medical treatment and schooling effective, Kigoma talents Childcare orphanage children have to be monitored during their studies until they begin a professional career, respecting the individual talents and personality of each child. Only in this way will ours be a realistic contribution, so that in the future their own children won’t have to face the same difficulties.
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Justification of the Project
The Kigoma district, with Kigoma as chief town (and the rural area) is situated along Lake Tanganyika in the extreme west of Tanzania; it borders with Burundi and the D.R. of Congo.
It’s one of the poorest and least developed areas of Tanzania, and also of the world. According to the U.N.D.P. (United Nations Development Program) report of 2002 the index of human development of Tanzania, that is a Country with a low human development, is 151/173, the annual per capita income is $523; 59.7%of its population lives under the poverty threshold (less than $2 a day); life expectancy is 51.1 years old, the fertility rate is of 5.4 children for each woman of fertile age, the infant mortality rate is 94.8% of each children born alive and the percentage of registration at primary school is 48%; the percentage falls dramatically to 6% for high school . Kigoma has a population of 1,674,047 inhabitants (more than 86% live in the country) with an annual demographic increase of 4.3-4.5%; 60% of its population is less than 19 years old.
There are less than 300 schools in the area with a rate of registration of about 20% of the school age population. While analyzing such percentages it is important to note that the female registration figures at primary school fall well below the male figures, even though the female population (869,413) is higher than the male population (804,634). A large percentage of female drops out from school: it is caused by juvenile pregnancies, even during primary school age. In the area of Kigoma, for example, between 1982 and 1990 the percentage of females and males registered at school wasn’t so different (45% of those registered were female and 55% were male) but already in high school, for the same period, of those registered 33% were female and 66% were male. According to the latest statistics of the Ministry of Public Education most of Kigoma teenagers finish elementary school but only 5% continue to study. Furthermore, the standard of scholastic infrastructures, scholastic materials, the level of student education and the preparation of teachers is very poor; the scholastic methodology is still based on a mnemonic learning method and on an authoritative way to teach that includes physical violence, without the slightest attention to the demand of education and the development of personality, in other words the present scholastic system doesn’t prepare young people for a civilized and productive introduction into society, neither does it prepare them for their emotional and cognitive development. Even basic scholastic investments and policies are lacking. For example, not even 1 student out of 3 at primary school has a book.
In addition to knowing about the endemic conditions of poverty, disease, underdevelopment, the lack of infrastructures and basic resources common to many African sub-Saharan areas.
Since 1993 the Kigoma region has been hit by the arrival, in various waves, of at least 400,000 refugees who fled from the ethnic wars of bordering Burundi. This had a strong, negative environmental and social impact, and a pandemic spread of HIV/AIDS, that is still, in spite of all the efforts, a problem that is still far from any solution.
Every year hundreds of men, women and children die, especially between 14 and 45 years old, causing a generational gap, right in the most productive age. Furthermore, AIDS is more widespread among the female population: which has caused a higher number of orphans and homeless children, and the lack of adult females prevents the traditional practice of welcoming the orphans into an enlarged family.
After these preliminary remarks it is easy to comprehend the dramatic childhood conditions, which are also lacking in the most fundamental rights, such as love, care, protection and education. Children are often exploited, neglected, and suffer various forms of psychologic and physical violence whether from within the family or institutions. Political support for children and the family is lacking. There is also a lack of pedagogical culture, even from within the State organizations set up for this aim. In particular there is a lack of understanding to promote the education and the development of childhood and adolescence and a strong and efficient investment for a social, economic development for the whole community and for the Country itself. At present in the Kigoma area, there are two centers that give hospitality to AIDS orphans and neglected children, which are the “kigoma talents care foundation Children’s home”, the orphanage supported by EMERSON EZEKIEL RUTENDELI, property of the Tanzanian Government , that shelters 61 children from 3 years old upwards, an initial reception centre for homeless children.
Kigoma talents Childcare orphanage fundatrix with children
Do you know that...?
90% of the work force in Tanzania is devoted to farming.
Tanzanian women walk for up to 6 hours to get the wood to cook for 5 days.
In Tanzania almost 50% of the population is under 15 years old.
In the Kigoma region, families’ annual per-capita income is lower than 100 dollars ( about 113 €uro) and it costs 70 dollars (about 180 €uro) a year to attend secondary school.
An American citizen consumes as much as 179 Tanzanian citizens.
On average, life expectancy in Tanzania is 46 years, 30 years less than in Italy.
67.8% of the population in Tanzania can read, but only 56.8% of women can read and write.
The majority of children in Tanzania speaks two languages, the tribal dialect and the national language (Swahili), in addition to English which is learnt at school.
Methodology:
We have been identifying orphan / semi orphan / street children through our volunteers, citizens,
police, women & child welfare department. We Pre-view of the incoming orphan / semi orphan /
street child problems/difficulties. We counsel and arrange for Emotional acceptance of the orphan / semi orphan / street child.
. We arranged teaching facilities in nearby schools according to their age. We also provide home tuitions, recreation and health care.
We have been running the Orphanage with local donations and contributions only. We
mobilizing both cash and kind. We have limited resources to take care of about 100 orphan /semi
orphan / street children. But, day by day number of children are increasing due to various
reasons. We need additional support from the donors and philanthropists to meet the needs of
increasing orphan / semi orphan / street children in our center. We seek support for about 3
years. Meanwhile, we will sustain to mobilize continues local donations through exhibiting our
good work and service. We are planning to build permanent school ad home because we have buy land for building school and houses for permanent living of the children.
This home will have one Care Taker who besides handling day-to-day administration and willlook after the hostel as warden.
A doctor will be appointed as Center Medical Attendant on honorarium and all the inmates will be provided with health check-up,medicines, food, cosmetics, one set of books and two sets of uniform every year.
The orphanage covers 100 orphans. Every child provided with nutritional diet, indoor and
out-door recreation and play facilities and training in crafts and hobbies. Impact analysis:
The project monitored at regular intervals through a “Project Advisory Committee
(PAC)” constituted with the President of the organization as convener/member secretary.
Authorities from the Funding Agency, Local District Administration etc. nominated as
members to the project advisory committee. This committee meet periodically once in 3 months and advise on various aspects concerning implementation of project and review of the
Programs/activities undertaken. The Project Advisory Committee also review the accounts and audited statements.
WELCOME ALL TO CARE THE ORPHANS CHILDREN
TO GIVE HOPE
To know more about sponsoring children and Donation for food or our medical student, please talk to me.
Founder;
Emerson E. Rutendeli
Contact: +25576339895 /+25574520261(Also register what Sapp)
Email Address: [email protected]
Dear DONORS:
A group of us got together and donated successfully to the orphanage by wire transfer using
the following details:
Beneficiary / Recipient Name: KIGOMA TALENTS CARE FOUNDATION
Address: KATUBUKA -KIGOMA, TANZANIA
Beneficiary Account Number: 016-0007902
Beneficiary Bank: TANZANIA POSTER BANK (TPB) KIGOMA -TANZANIA
