Ally Mussa AKA Meja is 24 years old, he lives in Chadulu street, Tambukareli ward in Dodoma City. The youngster had stayed at Shukurani Children home from 2011 to 2018. While he was staying at the centre, he was enrolled at Chamwino primary school from 2011 to 2015. Once completed primary education, he was enrolled at St. Gabriel Technical School …
Category: Children
Murders of street kids
Here we are again, narrating the brutal murder of two street kids. Last time we had debuted by using the same sentence: “here we are again?”How long do we have to write this sentence for? When will “unknown people” or the enraged crowd stop murdering street kids?Toma, 18 years old, killed in Dar es Salaam a month ago. Mwarabu, 17, …
Modern slaves
They are between 12 and 17 years old and they are the new slaves. No longer deported to the Americas, but slaves in their own houses, enslaved by their own people. Girls, often illiterate or who had to leave school for some reasons, come from poor families who have decided to send them to work for some wealthy family, in …
Sponsorship: why choose to support a community of children, instead of just one.
Gruppo Tanzania Onlus and KISEDET, like many other organizations who focus on sponsorships, began with the “classic” SAD (sostegni a distanza: child sponsorships), which stands for one sponsor per child. However, for a year or so, Gr Tz Onlus and KISEDET NGO have proposed doing larger sponsorship, like of a whole community. Everything began 10 years ago when the street …
How youth’s lives transformed by sober houses
The photo of Romina Remigio
Various life and family challenges lead children and youth to flee and start living on the streets. While on the streets they start working to earn money for their basic
Project Proposal to increase the social inclusions of Children with Disabilities (CWDs)
Good morning, Africa!
Africa continues to appear as a continent that is torn by tension and war. But the reality is more complex than that. It’s not the only truth. The continent where 60 percent of the population is under the age of fifteen is tenacious…
Updating Kizazi Kipya Project
The project began in May, 2017 and ended in September 2020, on which the project provided support to children and youth living and working on the streets. The following is the success of KKP project. NoIndicatorsSuccess1Identification of children and youth living and working on the street1292 (799 M, 493 F)2Providing children with temporary shelter231 (165 M, 48 F)3Health Care and …
Dodoma, March 2nd, 2021 (by Giovanna Moretti)
How can we work with street children, if we lose either our hardness or our tenderness?