AFOPH supports Pippi House, a safe haven for children, girls & women in Arusha, Tanzania. admin@americanfriendsofpippihouse
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As a Psychotherapist and Social Worker, I had experience in New Delhi, India. Recently, I taught teen age girls English and we had many conversations about how they felt about being young women in India. Married women spoke about their daily lives of being in the home. I felt useful but at the same time knew that I was up against a historically large system that involved castes and traditions from thousands of years.
How could I, an individual, help the developing world? How could I use my talents and capabilities to help young women and children in third world countries? In my search, I found a particular Utube video that spoke volumes to me called “Street Girls of Arusha, Tanzania”. It’s included on my home page. I hope you will watch this compeling piece, completely done by the founder of Pippi House, Aristedes Nshange. I knew this was the right place for me to go. I spent a month there, doing all the things that volunteers do, cooking , cleaning, painting, arts and crafts with the children, helping them out financially.
Most important and meaningful for me was my opportunity to have group therapy sessions. These were EMPOWERMENT SESSIONS in the truest sense. They were so sweet and shy at the beginning and sort of giving me the party lines of women who have endured such horrific lives. Overtime, they started to loosen up and my Swahili became slightly more understandable. These women and children have dire needs for Everything. They are competing with many other charities; for rent, food, electricity, school funding, skill training. The list goes on.
