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AIDS Outreach-Nyakato (AON), Mwanza
2005 – $7,800
AON addresses the need for HIV/AIDS prevention and care in Nyakato.
The organization uses peer education, leadership training, food
assistance, home-based care, and other strategies to support
vulnerable children. Its previous Firelight grant enabled AON
to meet the educational expenses of 50 children and to conduct
a variety of peer-education and life-skills seminars for vulnerable
youth. This regrant supports AON to provide educational and
food assistance to 80 orphans, to involve 80 youth in peer HIV/AIDS
education and prevention programs, and to pay three staff members’
salaries.
2004 – $4,000
AIDS Outreach-Nyakato was founded to continue the activities
of an HIV/AIDS awareness-raising and home-based care program
initiated by a Maryknoll Sister, who handed over the leadership
of the program to Tanzanian staff in 2003. Grant funds enable
the group to conduct life skills seminars and leadership training
toward HIV prevention for youth, hold two special day-long events
for vulnerable children, and provide educational support to
50 children.
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Boona Baana Center for Children's Rights,
Dar Es Salaam
2004 – $6,400
Boona Baana cares for the physical and emotional needs of abandoned
infants, many of them HIV-positive, who are awaiting foster
care or adoption. Boona Baana is using Firelight funds to meet
the health care and support expenses for 10 HIV-positive mothers
and their infants, to purchase play equipment, and to conduct
advocacy campaigns aimed at preventing the physical and emotional
abuse of children.
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Butogwa Women’s Health and Development
Association (BUWOHEDE), Sengerema
2005 – $6,500
Women in rural Itanagumba village started BUWOHEDE to address
discrimination against women and orphans. Previous Firelight
funding enabled BUWOHEDE to train 19 child heads-of-households
in tailoring and to teach youth HIV-prevention and life skills.
BUWOHEDE also trained 33 orphan caregivers in business management
and distributed a small amount of startup capital to a subgroup
of these caregivers. With renewed funding BUWOHEDE is continuing
its tailoring training and HIV-prevention education program
for 20 youth. Five tailoring program graduates, all youth heads-of-households,
receive sewing machines. In addition BUWOHEDE is offering startup
capital for small businesses to 10 previously trained caregivers
as well as continuing the organization’s community HIV-prevention
activities.
2004– $5,000
BUWOHEDE was started by a group of village women who wanted
equal rights for marginalized women and children living on 5
islands and 10 villages adjacent to Lake Victoria. They used
previous Firelight funding to conduct HIV/AIDS awareness meetings
for children, train caregivers on business management, and provide
the trainees with start-up loans. The trainees’ businesses
now realize a monthly profit that enables them to pay for their
families’ food, medical treatment, and school needs. With
this regrant, BUWOHEDE is training 18 youth heads-of-households
in tailoring and is facilitating income-generating activities
for 15 caregivers.
2003 – $ 4,000
BUWOHEDE was started by a group of village women who wanted
equal rights for marginalized women and children living on 5
islands and 10 villages adjacent to Lake Victoria. In an effort
to empower and educate women and children affected by HIV/AIDS,
BUWOHEDE is using grant funds to train 25 caregivers in business
management and marketing skills and provide small loans to 20
women to establish income-generating activities.
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Diocese of Southern Highlands Orphan Support
Program (DSH), Mbeya
2005 – $13,000
Moved to act by the increasing numbers of children and
caregivers affected by HIV/AIDS, DSH began an Orphan Support
Program. DSH’s clergy and volunteers minister to the social,
physical, and spiritual wellbeing of community members. Firelight
initially funded DSH to conduct a needs assessment of orphans
and vulnerable children in their region. Firelight subsequently
supported DSH’s program of educational assistance for identified
children and a pilot economic livelihood improvement project
for caregivers. With renewed funding DSH is providing educational
assistance, psychosocial support, and medical care to 100 orphans,
and is distributing seed capital for income-generating activities
to 30 orphan caregivers. Funds to DSH are also assisting 15
youth with vocational training and covering administrative costs.
2004 – $3,500
Diocese of Southern Highlands, a Diocese of the Anglican
Church, mobilizes and educates clergy and communities about
the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and families in an effort
to mobilize greater care and support. With previous Firelight
support, DSH trained community volunteers and conducted a house-to-house
assessment and registry of orphans and vulnerable children.
For the 60 most vulnerable orphans, DSH offered educational
assistance and met their health care needs. This emergency grant
covers expenses associated with restoring children’s property
and repairing damage suffered during a fire at the Good Samaritan
Girls’ Secondary School.
2003 – $ 4,500
Situated in southwest Tanzania, this Diocese of the Anglican
Church works in the Mbeya region, which has a population of
2.1 million. They mobilize and educate clergy about youth development
and HIV/AIDS as a means of preventing further infection. With
this grant, DSH is identifying orphaned and vulnerable children
around Mbeya, assessing their situation, and raising awareness
within the community of their needs. DSH is working with a coalition
of faith-based organizations to assist the children.
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Elimu, Michezo na Mazoezi (EMIMA), Dar Es
Salaam
2004 – $24,000
EMIMA addresses the physical, social, and emotional needs
of children at risk of HIV through a program that combines sports
activities and life skills, HIV prevention, and reproductive
health education. Additionally, EMIMA trains youth as peer coaches
to teach athletic skills and HIV/AIDS-prevention strategies
to vulnerable children. These peer coaches receive educational
sponsorship or assistance with small business training. A previous
Firelight grant supported EMIMA’s programs for at-risk
youth. With this two-year grant, EMIMA is providing 90 peer
coaches with HIV/AIDS-prevention education, awareness-raising
materials, and educational sponsorship. They are also providing
school materials to 80 children and supporting recreation opportunities
for girls.
2003 – $ 7,500
EMIMA empowers children by providing information on reproductive
health, life skills, HIV/AIDS prevention, and care of those
living with AIDS through organized sports activities. With this
funding, EMIMA is supporting its youth sports leaders (“peer
coaches”) with 22 educational scholarships, 60 partial
scholarships, and 45 vocational training opportunities. Additionally,
they are reaching hundreds of children in the community through
weekly sports gatherings and by distributing HIV/AIDS information
via fliers, leaflets, workshops, and seminars.
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Kagera Group For Development (KAGDE), Bukoba
2005 – $9,600
Twelve concerned individuals founded KAGDE in order to
address the increasing numbers of children living
on the streets in Bukoba, many of whom migrated to town in search
of work following their parents’ deaths.
Through their Street Children’s Participation and Empowerment
Project, the organization is using Firelight
funding to gather 100 street children each week to engage in
sports competitions, games, tutoring, and
an open forum where they can speak their minds. Each week 75
street children are receiving counseling
and health care. KAGDE is working to reunify these children
with their families. The organization is also
distributing children’s rights brochures to inform the
community about the challenges children face living on
the street and to offer the appropriate ways to respond.
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Lake Nyanza Environmental and Sanitation Organization
(LANESO), Mwanza
2005 – $ 4,000
LANESO, an environmental conservation organization, works with
a marginalized community of fisherboys living on Jumaa Island
in Lake Victoria. LANESO used two previous grants to train the
boys in sustainablefishing techniques, to teach them the facts
about HIV/AIDS, and to assist them in organizing fishing cooperatives.
With this Firelight grant, LANESO is coordinating a pair of
three-day learning workshops and exchange visits involving Firelight
grantee-partners in the Mwanza area. These exchanges will improve
networking among the organizations and encourage participants
to share effective program strategies.
2005 – $9,400
This Documentation and Dissemination grant supports LANESO to
produce audiovisual materials and brochures about HIV/AIDS prevention,
care, and support strategies, which will raise awareness of
the effects of HIV/AIDS in Mwanza. LANESO found widespread community
ignorance about and silence surrounding HIV/AIDS to be one of
the obstacles to effective treatment, care, and support for
children affected by HIV/AIDS. Funds enabled LANESO to create
a video to inform the community of facts about the virus and
strategies for caring for the ill and their children, and also
to share strategies for preventing new HIV infections. LANESO
plans initially to reach approximately 1,700 community members
through a series of presentations, and to broadcast the audio
program twice on a local radio station. Additionally, they are
distributing 500 brochures containing information about HIV/AIDS
and prevention.
2004 – $ 24,000 (Two-year grant)
LANESO, an environmental conservation organization, works with
a marginalized community of fisher boys living on Jumaa Island
in Lake Victoria. LANESO used Firelight’s previous grant
to conduct HIV/AIDS awareness workshops for the youth fishermen.
They trained 50 boys on sustainable fishing techniques and provided
them with regulation nets to improve their livelihood opportunities.
Renewed Firelight funding enables LANESO to replicate these
effective programs with 40 additional boys. They are also conducting
HIV/AIDS awareness-raising programs in the community and holding
monthly games, youth-focused activities, and youth forums as
a means of strengthening positive behavior among the youth.
2003 – $ 8,800
LANESO, an environmental conservation organization, works with
the marginalized community of fisher boys living on Jumaa Island
in Lake Victoria. Firelight funding enables LANESO to improve
the livelihoods of 50 of these orphaned fishermen by teaching
them appropriate fishing techniques, providing them with improved,
environmentally-appropriate fishing nets, and advising them
about the importance of financial savings. The youth are also
being taught about HIV/AIDS prevention through behavior change.
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Makiungu Community Based Home Care (CBHC),
Singida
2003 – $ 4,000
Makiungu Community Based Home Care (CBHC) is a program based
on health services that initially were provided at Makiungu
Hospital, in a rural town 335 kilometers from Arusha. The Makiungu
CBHC program initially offered palliative care to the dying,
but soon added material and psychosocial support to vulnerable
children and their grandparent caregivers. Firelight funding
supports weekly outreach to AIDS orphans and families. Makiungu
CBHC is also holding 13 workshops around Singida to raise community
awareness of the needs and rights of orphans and vulnerable
children. This program has been recognized by the Tanzanian
First Lady.
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Mara Widows Development Group, Musoma
2005 – $3,000
“In our community… orphans are seen like the lost
among the living,” reports Mara Widows Development Group.
A membership organization, the group reaches approximately 120
vulnerable children by assisting caregivers, including widows
and families who have opened their homes to orphans. Firelight
funding is supporting the participation of 40 caregivers in
its economic-livelihood program, which involves training caregivers
in small business development and management, operating a revolving
loan fund, monitoring their progress, and providing feedback
to participants.
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Maryknoll Mission Sisters, Musoma
2004 – $5,000
The Maryknoll Mission Sisters work with youth leaders in Musoma
to coordinate Youth Alive groups. Through their participation
in Youth Alive, young people learn the facts about HIV/AIDS,
discuss prevention through behavior change, and offer services
to vulnerable families. With previous Firelight funding, they
assisted 125 children with school fees, conducted HIV-prevention
programs with 600 youth, and supplied homebased care and counseling
to HIV/AIDS-affected families. This grant helps Youth Alive
provide educational assistance to more than 90 children, train
vulnerable girls in tailoring, and continue their awareness-raising
activities.
2002 – $10,000
The Maryknoll Sisters work in three towns in Mwanza, carrying
out programs that provide education and vocational training
opportunities to marginalized children and support to their
caregivers. Additionally, each Sister works with youth leaders
in her community to coordinate “Youth Alive” groups
focused on preventing HIV and promoting community service among
youth. The Sisters also offer emergency support to families.
This grant funds a community school that offers computer and
English classes, counseling, meals, and recreational activities
for 40 vulnerable children. It pays the educational expenses
of 3 nursery, 295 primary, and 5 secondary school pupils. The
grant is also supporting the Sisters’ home visits of sick
children and their caregivers.
2001 – $ 8,000
Grant funds are supporting educational, counseling, and support
services for more than 100 orphans and vulnerable children.
It is also paying for 67 children to attend school and for
peer education programs through the Youth Alive program.
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Maryknoll Mission Sisters, Mwisenge
2004 – $6,000
The Maryknoll Mission Sisters in Mwisenge work with Youth
Alive participants to promote positive behavior change for
HIV prevention. The Mwisenge Youth Alive group reaches rural
communities by conducting creative peer education programs
and providing home-based care to the terminally ill. This
grant enables this group to continue its provision of educational
assistance and psychosocial support to more than 200 children
affected by HIV/AIDS. These children and their guardians are
also served through home visits and access to a drop-in center
for children and youth.
2002 – $ 10,500
Grant funds cover the salaries of one full-time and one part-time
social worker to coordinate AIDS home care and outreach activities
to vulnerable children. It is also paying for 600 children
to attend 12 HIV prevention behavior change seminars led by
their peers.
2001 – $ 8,500
The school fees and expenses of 35 primary and 5 secondary
school students are being paid with this grant. Critical food
assistance is being provided to needy families. This grant
also supports 11 seminars for youth on behavior change.
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Maryknoll Mission Sisters, Mwanza
2002 – $ 5,000
Eighty-five primary and eight secondary school students are
being educated with grant funds. Funds are also being used
to pay for 60 youth to attend Youth Alive behavior change
seminars. They are conducting AIDS awareness events and recreational
activities in their community to promote positive and fun
activities.
2001 – $ 3,500
Sixty primary and five secondary school students in the Nyakato
and Mwanza areas are being supported with this grant. Critical
food assistance is being provided to 40 families. This grant
also supports weekly meetings of Youth Alive behavior change
groups and the costs of a World AIDS Day awareness-raising
and outreach event.
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Muungano Community Based Organization (MCBO),
Musoma
2005 – $6,000
Three teachers working in Etaro Village started MCBO to ensure
children’s access to education. Previous Firelight funding
enabled the group to provide 42 orphaned children with textbooks,
uniforms, and school materials. This grant offers continued
support for MCBO’s program of educational and psychosocial
assistance. As part of its psychosocial support, MCBO provides
tutoring support and visits children and their families regularly
to assess their situations and to offer moral support. Funding
enables MCBO to buy textbooks and school materials for 58 students,
to purchase teachers’ guides for eight primary texts in
the school curriculum, and to pay the stipends of two junior
teachers, both MCBO program graduates.
2004 – $3,500
MCBO provides educational and psychological support to adolescent
orphans, emphasizing education as a path to greater opportunity.
This grant purchases schoolbooks, school supplies, and uniforms
for 42 orphaned youth who would otherwise not be able to continue
their education.
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Orphans Development Programme International
(ODPI), Mwanza
2003 – $ 4,500
ODPI partners with grassroots self-help groups in six east African
countries to help them strengthen their capacity to do their
work. The Tumaini Women’s organization was started by a
group of women living with HIV/AIDS who came together for mutual
support and to start businesses. Firelight funding enables ODPI
to help the Tumaini Women’s group initiate and administer
a revolving loan fund for 20 widows who care for 48 children.
This grant also provides educational, medical, and nutritional
support to 60 widows and their children.
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Teens Against AIDS (TAA), Dar es Salaam
2005 – $ 30,000 (Three-year grant)
Motivated Tanzanian youth founded TAA so youth could be “represented...
[and] start an open dialogue where young people’s views
[would] be respected and taken into account” in HIV/AIDS
programming. TAA, now a national youth-led organization with
nearly 4,000 members, has hosted leadership camps involving
97 vulnerable youth from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
With this three-year regrant, TAA is convening a second camp
for 100 participants, where AIDS-affected young people discuss
and plan strategies that enable them to participate actively
in caregiving, income generation, advocacy, publicawareness
raising, and other means of support. Funding also supports TAA’s
post-camp follow-up and documentation activities and covers
some administrative costs.
2005 – $ 15,300
This grant funds TAA to host a youth leadership workshop
involving representatives from 14 of Firelight’s grantee-partner
organizations, as well as young leaders from Chad, Ghana, and
the Sudan. The training provides opportunities for participants
to gain new strategies for responding to HIV, to experience
the value of cross-cultural exchanges, and to better appreciate
the role that youth play in addressing the impact of HIV/AIDS.
The workshop affirms young people’s capacity to lead and
to inspire communities to be more involved in the response to
the challenges of HIV/AIDS, especially as they affect children
and youth.
2004 – $ 6,000
TAA is a youth-led organization with nearly 4,000 members.
They conduct HIV/AIDS training for peer educators and facilitate
caregiver support groups. Through their “Angel Network,”
147 older orphans visit 1,000 vulnerable children to provide
tutoring and psychosocial support. With Firelight funds, TAA
is expanding their current programs and holding a three-day
camp for orphaned and vulnerable children. This camp will provide
an outlet for children to share their experiences with each
other, as well as with policymakers and resource providers,
such as non-governmental organizations and government agencies.
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Tuamoyo Family Children’s Centre, Dar
Es Salaam
2004 – $ 9,600
Tuamoyo offers street boys temporary shelter and provides transitional
support during family tracing and reunification. Firelight’s
previous support helped to reunify 15 children with their families
and to pay the salary of a social worker. With renewed funding,
Tuamoyo is reunifying an additional 20 children with their families.
The grant also covers transportation costs, staff support, and
materials.
2003 – $ 4,500
Founded in 1992 by members of St. Alban’s Church, the Tuamoyo
Family Children’s Centre addresses the needs of street
boys in the harbor area of Dar Es Salaam. Tuamoyo conducts outreach
to children living on the street, provides transitional shelter,
and works with the children, their relatives, and social service
agencies to reunify families. Funding helps Tuamoyo identify
15 of the street children for reunification, provide them with
temporary shelter, food, clothing, counseling, and education,
and facilitate the family tracing and reunification process.
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Tumaini Women Development Group, Mwanza
2005 – $ 7,000
A group of HIV-positive widows founded Tumaini to improve
their families’ livelihoods and overcome AIDSrelated
stigma and discrimination. Tumaini “Swahili for Hope”,
educates the community about the effects of HIV/AIDS while
supporting members to improve their economic and physical
wellbeing and that of their children. Firelight’s two
previous grants to Tumaini, which Orphans’ Development
Programme International administered on our behalf, funded
the group’s economic livelihood improvement and awareness-raising
programs and helped Tumaini to address the increasing need
for educational support faced by its 39 members’ children.
With this grant the group is providing educational assistance
to 60 youth, funding 15 caregivers as they start income-generating
activities, and teaching 35 young people to serve as peer
educators in HIV/AIDS prevention strategies.
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WAMATA Sengerema, Sengerema
2005 – $7,100
WAMATA Sengerema, a branch of a national grassroots membership
organization, supports families affected by HIV/AIDS with
educational assistance, counseling, food assistance, and home-based
care. Firelight grants have funded WAMATA’s program of
emergency food assistance and educational support for nearly
300 children, including the costs of school supplies, uniforms,
and vocational training fees. With this grant WAMATA continues
to provide educational assistance, HIV/AIDS-prevention education,
and vocational training to benefit 135 children. Firelight’s
grant also supports a fund that enables 70 orphan caregivers
to start small businesses and covers emergency food aid for
60 vulnerable families.
2004 – $7,200
WAMATA Sengerema is a volunteer-driven national AIDS
service organization that assists vulnerable children and
families affected by HIV/AIDS through a variety of programs.
Firelight’s previous grant funded educational assistance
for 121 children, covered vocational training for 5 youth,
and provided an additional 400 children with school materials.
WAMATA Sengerema has also successfully negotiated with schools
to reduce or waive fees for vulnerable children, enabling
them to extend educational opportunities to many more children.
This grant contributes to WAMATA Sengerema’s programs
for educational, financial, and nutritional support to vulnerable
children and their families.
2002 – $ 3,000
Walio Katika Mapambano Na Aids Tanzania (WAMATA), Swahili
for “Those battling against AIDS in Tanzania,” is
a national grassroots membership organization comprised of
people from all walks of life. They provide HIV/AIDS prevention
education, training on the care of people living with HIV/AIDS,
and school materials for needy students. This grant to the
Sengerema branch of WAMATA is covering the educational expenses
of 103 primary school and 18 secondary school children and
providing vocational training for 5 youth. Funding also enables
WAMATA Sengerema to pay for emergency food and medicine for
63 families affected by AIDS.
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Yatima Kwa Wazazi (YAWA), Mwasi, Moshi
2004 – $ 3,500
YAWA teaches local youth about HIV/AIDS, reproductive health,
and the importance of working hard in school. The organization
helps address vulnerable children’s fear, isolation,
and stigma by bringing together orphaned youth and other children
for recreation and learning. YAWA is using Firelight funds
to provide primary and vocational education support to 20
children and youth and offer business training and start-up
loans to 7 youth-headed households and grandparent caregivers.
Funds also support recreational activities for children and
HIV/AIDS seminars.
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