PREAMBLE ABOUT THE CREATION OF ADEI ORGANIZATION
Advancing the Dignity of Elderly Initiatives - ADEI is a community - based organization founded officially on Saturday, November 5th, 2022. This organization is made by a group of Samaritans men and women who devoted their lives to help older persons and started volunteering in Magu District, Mwanza region in Tanzania to meet the needs of elderly a
nd advocate for their rights since January 2022 in an informal setting after being touched by various acts of discrimination and life hardships facing them in Magu District. Aging population in the World is growing very rapidly and that there is very weak infrastructure put in place to address their concerns and needs. Nowadays, the traditional care systems in which families, kin and neighborhoods took care of the elderly is increasingly getting strained, while formal care for the same group is not yet sustainable in Magu district where we operate. There is therefore a significant care gap left by the consequences of development and the so-called modernization as many families are adopting a form of life more impactful to nuclear families than extended families. These positive developments therefore need to be backed up with long term and concrete plans on how to cover the care gaps left for vulnerable categories of people especially the elderly. In this perspective and many other reasons and incidents witnessed affecting older persons made these compassionate men and women to decide to unite their resources and skills and officially create this organization and work for a common goal as one and not individually. VISION STATEMENT OF ADEI ORGANIZATION
ADEI Organization strives to build a society in which older persons are cared for and empowered to live a decent life with dignity and respect. MISSION STATEMENT OF ADEI ORGANIZATION
ADEI Organization’s mission is to improve the health and quality of life of impoverished older persons and engage the community to safeguard fairly their dignity in order to help them live their older age happily, peacefully and securely through advocacy on their rights, economic empowerment and inclusion initiatives, provision of social services and protection for their well-being. OBJECTIVES OF ADEI ORGANIZATION
To reach its vision and mission, ADEI Organization shall fulfill the following objectives for the well-being of older persons:
To advocate for the rights, justice and well-being of older persons;
To increase awareness and understanding of ageing issues and the nature of support needed for older persons across the community and service providers;
To eliminate negative attitudes and all forms of discrimination, abuse and violence against older persons;
To create awareness to older persons on the negative impacts of excessive use of alcohol, to***co and drugs;
To promote and increase access to basic healthcare, improved nutrition, other basic necessities and adequate housing for the older persons;
To provide older persons with the opportunity to initiate income-generating activities for their self-sustenance;
To raise mutual cooperation for knowledge and wisdom transfer between older people and the youth in the society;
Co-operate with other non-profit organizations or public institutions interested or engaged in the fields of service and support to older people and assist them with advice and/or engage in joint ventures or partnerships;
To establish residential care for older widows or widowers and other older persons with no place to live and at risk of joining the streets. ACTIVITIES OF ADEI ORGANIZATION
To reach its vision, mission and objectives ADEI Organization shall implement the following activities in its working area:
Community education and awareness on ageing issues and support needed;
Advocacy for the protection of rights and well-being of older persons;
Home-based care and psycho-social counseling for older persons who are sick or facing different life challenges;
Economic empowerment and inclusion for older persons;
Social assistance, protection and improve housing environment for the well-being, dignity and respect for older persons;
Referring older persons to established public services for their health and social welfare;
Respond to urgent situations and threats to older persons related to violence, abuse, discrimination or traditional, cultural norms and beliefs and practices putting the life of older persons in trouble;
Sharing stories of daily struggles of older persons to increase different stakeholders’ awareness and seek their engagement to change the status of things;
Organize meeting of reflection between older persons and the youth to allow older persons to transfer knowledge and wisdom to the youth and increase the youth participation in advocating and caring for the well-being of older persons and impacting them with new ways of looking at life;
Strengthening capacities of Social Welfare and caregivers for meeting the needs of older persons;
Create older persons’ groups for exchange of ideas, mutual support and promote their rights understanding and defense strategies;
Initiate and operate residential care for the older widows and widowers and older persons at risk of joining the streets;
Fight the excessive use of alcohol, to***co and drugs to older persons. TARGET GROUP OF ADEI ORGANIZATION
Although ADEI Organization aspires to change the life of every older person and promote the rights of all neglected older persons in the community from 55 years old and above but, specifically, our interventions will benefit the following groups:
Older persons living in poverty but with special needs like disability, mental or age – related disorders;
Vulnerable older persons suffering from chronic illness like cancer, infected or affected by HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis;
Older widows and widowers and other older persons at risk of joining the streets;
Older persons living in poverty but having abandoned/vulnerable children under his/her care;
Older persons in critical need of support and facing extreme poverty. CORE VALUES OF ADEI ORGANIZATION
Believing in the principle of “nothing for us without us”, older persons are at the center of whatever we do and therefore, we are led by the following core values:
Diversity and inclusion strengthen us.
Innovation drives us.
We are passionate about the beneficiaries’ opinions and experience.
We lead our actions strategically to meet future needs of the beneficiaries.
We listen and effectively communicate with the beneficiaries, community and partners.
We act with integrity.
We value our personnel.
We create partnership and collaboration to increase our capacities and results.
We hold ourselves and partners accountable for results.
We manage resources entrusted to us from any source responsibly and in transparency. KINDLY JOIN US TO SAVE LIVES …
We thank you for the time you took to read our information. We believe when we join hands together we can make a great different in the lives of the impoverished older persons in Magu district, Mwanza region in Tanzania. Please do not hesitate to contact us and share with us on how we can cooperate for the well-being of this worth generation. Johnson,
Executive Director,
ADEI Organization
P.O. Box 11754 Mwanza, Tanzania, East Africa
E-mail: [email protected]
Mobile/WhatsApp No.: +255757526500
page link: https://web.facebook.com/adeitzforelderlywellbeing
