Cash transfer and psychosocial support for

older people and their grandchildren.

Kwa Wazee working with the elderly to promote pension programmes in Tanzania. Kwa Wazee, which started in November 2003 with a very small number of beneficiaries, has since gradually extended to over 1000 grandparents, who were caring for over 600 orphans by October 2012.

Feedback from the elderly beneficiaries, as well as by observers in their neighbourhoods, shows that even the modest pension provided by Kwa Wazee makes a significant difference in the lives of the supported grandmothers as well as the children in their care.

A permanent evaluation of the project is also designed to show how a system of pensions for the impoverished elderly could be implemented in other regions which are severely affected by HIV/AIDS.