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In Tanzania children face many challenges including a lack of protection, poverty, abuse and exploitation. These are often linked to cultural and traditional practices such as exploitative child labour and domestic work, early marriages, domestic violence, sexual abuse and corporal punishment. The high levels of poverty, HIV and AIDS, violence and abuse are all contributing to a rising number of children without parental care, and those at risk of losing it. Traditional care systems like extended families are also being massively overstretched. Many families are unable to support their children and there is no clear government policy to address the issues that children living alone face and how to protect them.
EveryChild works with a local partner in Tanzania, Mkombozi, to keep children in their families, protect those who are without their parents and reunite children with their families and communities.
What is EveryChild doing to help?
Protecting children on the streets and reuniting them with their families
In Arusha and Moshi our local partner provides children living on the streets with essential medical care, psychological support, non-formal education and vocational skills training. Our local partner helps children cope with the traumas they have experienced and prepare them emotionally to return to their families if this is in their best interests.
Before children are reunited with their families and communities, Mkombozi supports parents and carers with counselling sessions and parenting skills training. Families are offered economic support, like saving and credit schemes, so that they can set up their own businesses. We also provide financial assistance to enable their children to go to school instead of having to work.
Our local partner works with the children, their parents, caregivers and communities to try resolve the issues that caused the family to break up in the first place, and strengthens families financially so they can break the cycle of poverty.
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