Five years funded project with the target group of children from 7-14 years and youth from age of 15-25 years and their families.
The project objectives are:
- Ensure a space where intensive and effective support and services to street involved children are provided in Mwanza through providing friendship as well as support to them.
- Improve the economic status and behaviour change to key caregivers, community caregivers and youth living and working on street.
This will be reached through identifying potential beneficiaries, providing them with training on the VSLA model, business training, leadership training to the leaders in the groups and providing them with start-up kits, increasing the capacity of all established groups as well as strengthening the capacity of group leaders to lead their groups after graduating from the program.
Donor
We see hope
Location
Ilemela and Nyamagana districts –Mwanza Region Tanzania East Africa
Duration
4 years started 2017
Staff
8
Main Results
- Street involved children in Mwanza at risk of exploitation, abuse and violence have increased their physical well-being, interpersonal skills and ability to prosper within their local peer group.
- Street connected children have increased their reintegration readiness and made a successful reintegration into a children’s centre or a home setting.
- families have strengthened their families in terms of love, transmitting hope, support and guidance, and the positive attachments within the family, and the schools that the children are enrolled into are more accepting and inclusive of them
- Youth have been empowered economically and move away from sex work or the streets.
