Request For Small Donation to the Completion of our CCDO Child Labour Rehabilitation Center
CCDO Orphans are enjoying books that was donated by the great famous authors in the world Dr.Cherrye S.Vasquez (PhD), a member of the Coalition of Children Books Authors.
Summary
This orphanage home aims to provide care, support and protection for 102 orphan & street children. This home has three Care Takers, One Teacher. A doctor is conducting health check-up & providing medicines. All the inmates are being provided with 3 time’s nutritious food, one set of books and 2 sets of uniforms. Every child has opportunity for indoor and out-door recreation and play facilities along with training in crafts and hobbies
The overall objective of this project is to wage war against need orphans and child labour, motivate the school orphans drop out, child labour and neglected girl children to get back to the formal school by giving psychologically and physically training, giving importance on nutritive status of children, provide cultural and sports development, more focus on rack pickers, street children for bring them to main stream of the education, provide good education, food and scholastic materials, vocational training, orientation and skill developments of beneficiaries, motivate the parents and community for change their attitude about ignorance of importance of children education, provide more opportunity for children to learn about arts, science and social etc, to develop changes in policymaking level by lobby and advocacy, and active involvement in school betterment committees. However, the major goal of this project is to help disadvantaged children get an opportunity to study for self sustenance and NOT dependants on the community they live in.
Major activities in here are to construct the CCDO Orphanage Centre and to train teachers for taking classes for the children, and in order to sustain the Centre the project will work to enable them set up income generating projects through provision of small interest free capital and trainings to household’s families we work with. This will reduce high dependency on the organization by the project beneficiaries. Some of the income generating projects will be poultry keeping, kitchen gardening, computer training, tailoring, café services, dress making etc. Other activities shall include pay school fees, uniforms and other scholastic materials, organize meetings with the guardians, committees and Local leaders, build two dormitories for girls and boys orphans in the village, to support orphans /homes and guardians of the OVCs, identify and register orphans, take their pictures, update their profiles, and to provide home based care counseling skills to OVCs and orphans living with HIV/AIDS (PLWAs).
Therefore, this project is applying grants valued at 35,000,000/=Tshs for the completion of CCDO Orphanage Home / Center construction along Mkimbizi Village, Iringa Municipality –Iringa Region, Tanzania.
1.0 Introduction
In our project area number of needy Orphan and street Children are found. The problem of orphan / street children is acute due to urbanization and the deaths of HIV/AIDS affected persons, re-marriage of deserted / widowed / divorce women, absence of love and security in the families, Family disputes, Unwanted pregnancy of Trafficking / Sexually exploited girls; these orphan and street children are left without care and support. These children are involved in rag picking; pick pocketing and participating in anti social, criminal activities. Therefore, we envisage mainstreaming these children in the national building by providing care, support and protection in our CCDO Orphanage Home.
2.0 Brief History of the Organization
Children Care Development Organization (CCDO) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) working in Tanzania Mainland particularly in Iringa and Makete districts of Iringa and Njombe Regions in Tanzania. The CCDO is registered legally by the United Republic of Tanzania on 13th April 2010 under the Non-Governmental Organizations Act 2002 made under section 12 (2) of Act No. 24 of 2002 and with registration No. ooNGO/00003818. Since its inception the organization working with the people towards the reducing youngster’s poverty through practical ICT solutions under support from the World Computer Exchange Organization from USA and Computers 4 Africa from UK, promotion of climate change education and water sources preservation around Iringa Rural District under support from the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP).
3.0 Background of the Proposed Project Area
The project is planned to undertake at Mkimbizi village of Iringa Rural district of Iringa region, the project is estimate at this villages after realizing the need and identifying the problem of needy orphans and child labourers. The project location is underemployment and poverty oriented and also some small scale business activities in which rack pickers, working in hotels, garages, sexual workers, coolie work, and tea plantation for low wages without any incentives and other facilities as result they turn back in criminal and beggars’ activities. They are forced to go for migration in searching of employment to earn daily bread. This affects them in the dropouts of school of their children. Poverty is the root cause for migrations. After dropping education children are also used to work with their parents and some of the children are put in tee plantation and bricks making, agriculture and domestic works to earn bread for the family. More details in background and introduction of the project area.
CCDO has initiated the activities on elimination of needy orphans and child labour and rehabilitation of the affected children. The organization has developed a CCDO Orphanage Center in which construction is expected to start very soon if funds available from humanitarian donor givers. We planned to continue to run the Center exclusively for the benefit and welfare of the need orphans and child labourers at Iringa hamlets of need neglected orphans who are child labourers and beggers, working in different sector of hazardous fields.
3.1.0 Our Mission
Mainstreaming the Orphan, Semi Orphan and Street children in the national building by providing care, support & protection through shelter, food, and education is our mission.
4.0 CCDO Project Overview
In spite of planned development and special provision for accelerated socio-economic development of neglected/disadvantaged vulnerable children, the issue of orphan, semi orphan and street children is not properly addressed. In our project area many Orphan, Semi Orphan and Street Children are found. The problem of orphan / street children is acute due to urbanization and the Deaths of HIV/AIDS affected persons, Re-marriage of Deserted / Widowed / Divorce women, Absence of love and security in the families, Family disputes, Unwanted pregnancy of Trafficking / Sexually exploited girls; these orphan and street children are left without care and support. These children are involved in rag picking; pick pocketing and participating in anti social, criminal activities. Therefore, we envisage mainstreaming these children in the national building by providing care, support and protection in our ORPHAN CHILDREN HOME/ Rehabilitation Center. The project proposed in this scheme is meant for additional support to run the orphan children home.
5.0 Project Objectives
1) To create an enabling environment for the child labourers of Iringa district in Iringa region so that they can be self-dependent, contribute to the development of the area and are an active participant in development effort of the nation.
2) To inculcate entrepreneurs skill in the youth orphans, to make youth self-employed and initiate the youth to be engaged in sporting activities, vocational training, and build a culture of reading books for their life style innovation and creatively.
3) To mobilize roofing construction materials for the completion of our CCDO Orphan Rehabilitation Center.
4) To provide orphan / semi orphan / street children, a childhood that they never experienced and help them to become useful members of the society.
5) To encourage orphan / semi orphan / street children to kindle their potential by providing creative opportunities
6) To make available a secure place where orphan / semi orphan / street children can play and enjoy their childhood.
7) To provide basic education to orphan / semi orphan / street children.
8) To provide such welfare services like free lodging, boarding, health and recreation
9) To provide basic literacy and facilities for those who wish to study further
10) To select and prepare for a vocation in order to live on their own legs
11) To accomplishing physical, intellectual and aesthetic development of the child
6.1.0 Project Activities
1) Identification of orphan / semi orphan / street children
2) Pre-view of the incoming orphan / semi orphan / street children problem/difficulties
3) Emotional acceptance of the child
4) Teaching facilities for basic education
5) Teaching facilities for vocational courses and crafts.
6) Lodging and boarding facilities for all inmates.
7) Recreational facilities.
8) Primary health
6.1.1 Methodology
We have been identifying needy orphan and street children through our volunteers, citizens, police, women & child welfare department. We Pre-view of the incoming needy orphan and street child problems/difficulties. We counsel and arrange for emotional acceptance of the orphan / semi orphan / street child. We provide ICT, Tailoring vocational training and Day Care Services to our loved children aged under 6 years for all inmates at a rented building at Mkimbizi within Iringa Municipality of Iringa region. We arranged teaching facilities in nearby schools according to their age. We also provide home tuitions, recreation and health care.
We have been running the Orphanage with local donations and contributions only. We mobilizing both cash and kind. We have limited resources to take care of about 102 needy orphan and street children. But, day by day number of children is increasing due to various reasons. We need additional support from the donors and philanthropists to meet the needs of increasing needy orphan, disabled children and street children in our center. We seek support for about 3 years. Meanwhile, we will sustain to mobilize continuo’s local donations through exhibiting our good work and service. We are planning to build permanent home at our owned land along Mkimbizi village.
This home will have three Care Takers who besides handling day-to-day administration and will look after the CCDO Orphanage Center as warden. One Teacher teaches the children for education and communicative skills. A doctor will be appointed as Center Medical Attendant on honorarium and all the inmates will be provided with health check-up, medicines, food, cosmetics, one set of books and two sets of uniform every year.
The proposal covers 102 needy orphans, disabled children and street children. Every child will be provided with nutritional diet, indoor and out-door recreation and play facilities and training in crafts and hobbies.
7.0 How Will This Project Solve This Problem?
We have identified disabled children, needy orphans & street children & providing food and education facilities for all children. We are arranging teaching facilities in nearby schools & providing home tuitions, health check-up, medicines, cosmetics, one set of books & 2sets of uniform every year. This proposal covers 102 needy orphans & street children. Every child is being provided with nutritional diet, indoor & outdoor recreation and play facilities and training in crafts and hobbies.
7.1.0 Potential Long Term Impact
This project has potential & impact full in main streaming of orphans and street children. Their basic needs are met and they will get new life through gaining knowledge, vocational skills and life skills. They will get love & affection as if their parents provides. Their confidence level will increase & become good asset to the community. They are developed physically, psychologically, made as good and productive citizens. They will inspire by philanthropy & show humanity towards the community.
7.1.1 Project Message
Being inmate of this orphanage, I regained my birth. I obtained nutritious food, quality education and resourceful life. I got love and affection through my colleagues and organizers in the orphan home.
7.1.2 Statement of the Project Problem
The very low level of education among the whole population of the community which has been attributed to the increasing number of orphans and child labourers as a result of HIV and AIDS scourge that has hit the village for many years ago and up to date. Subsistence agriculture being the major way of livelihood has made it very difficult for the parents to send their children to school due to the increasing cost of education. The most affected and vulnerable category here is the orphans with no proper care and protection, no education, no food, no clothes and medical care. Worst, some of the children at years low as 11 are heading families taking responsibility of catering for the young ones as well as finding away for their education. In an attempt to do so, they end up meeting with young men and women to earn survival with money less than $1, coupled with HIV and AIDS. This has encouraged and increased on the rate of infections among the young population in Iringa district. The project is therefore initiated to target the orphan’s child labourers and the vulnerable children and to empower them by providing education to the bright ones, vocational training, ICT trainings, tailoring, entrepreneurial training and also empowering their guardians to carry out income generating activities that would further keep them even if the project ended.
Major problems of orphans and vulnerable children can be summarized as follows:
1) Food insecurity – under-fed, less meals and therefore poor nutrition;
2) Clothes/blankets – poor dressing; and therefore shame, especially for adolescents;
3) Shelter – poor housing, affected by extreme weather conditions
4) Education – poor attendance, expense with school fees, but also poor performance because of the related trauma of a change in life situations
5) Abuse – by guardians, overwork sometimes because they are depended upon to bring food on the table, but often because of discrimination
6) Lack of health care – physical growth impaired
7) Lack of social interaction – and therefore isolation
8) Verbal abuse – and therefore feelings of discrimination, especially when AIDS orphans are singled out, therefore stigma.
8.0 Training the Youth on Entrepreneurial Skill
Most of the needy orphans and child labourers youth in town are unskilled. Most don’t have enough knowledge on enterprise development, petty trading and related activities. Some have skills but their knowledge is traditional. Besides, they have no start up capital. Therefore, training on business development and going to envisaged business of their interest is the first step.
9.0 Establishing A Recreation and Business Center
As mentioned earlier the needy orphans and child labourers/ youth have nowhere to spend their time. Besides, as there is no job there is high unemployment. Therefore, a center that can be used as both recreation and business should be established. In the center there will be shops for young small-scale businessmen, cafeteria, sport center, information center and film showing center. In the shops & cafeteria those youngsters who took training and revolving credit shall undergo the venture of their own interest. The sport center shall provide indoor game services .The information center will give internet and information services. Film showing will launch in the small hall that is to be constructed together with the above centers. In these centers the remaining youth shall spend their time for recreation.
9.1.0 Provision of Sporting Materials
In here different sport teams which were already formed will be given sporting materials. The sporting team’s types are football, netball, volley ball and table tennis.
9.1.2 Needy Children Support
Children support activities seeks to improve lives of poor children through vocational skills for orphans and vulnerable youth (carpentry, computer maintenance, tailoring and hairdressing), educational support for 102 needy orphans children, functional Adult literacy training, community development activities (micro credit; sustainable agriculture; food aid to orphans and elderly people; health and hygiene trainings), environmental protection (energy saving stoves, biogas production; rain water harvesting; use of compressed soil bricks), running a cinema showing didactic movies and cartoons to the children of the slum, supporting to the local community through the distribution of mosquito nets, scholastic materials, clothing, school fees, food, medicaments, organizing sport and drama activities for the youth of the slum, and income generation through movie shows/ sale to cover part of the costs of the organization.
9.1.3 Construction of CCDO Orphanage Center
The project plans to obtain roofing construction materials for the needy child orphans and labourers center for the youngers and the poor families of people living in and around Iringa district on a land owned by the CCDO, which is located in Mkimbizi area. This will enable CCDO to expand and improve on the educational programs already existing in CCDO. The center will constitute a meeting point for the youth people and a center of new activities and new opportunities. The center will comprise, a multipurpose hall, some classrooms, a library books storage room, two offices and toilets. The center will accommodate the literacy school for adults’ needy orphans, a course of ICT, some recreational activities, one library and the didactic movies projection in which the target beneficiaries are 1500 needy orphans and disabled children. The orphan’s center will be used to improve the management of local NGOs partners and thus increase their levels of sustainability. The main activities of the center are a literacy school for the children and professional trainings for youngsters and women, but it will host also some activities addressed to the whole community; a shop for selling local handcraft and sewed cloth by our trainees, trainings for local partner organization staff members, awareness meetings and free cinema. In the specific the planned activities are;
9.1.4 Reference Library
One of the rooms will be fitted with shelves and stocked with reference books for infants, youth of primary and secondary school level plus general reference books and magazines. Other related assets would be a public address system, music system, a video and television system in door and out door games. The place would be organized into a resource and recreational centre where the orphans can meet and recreate in a constructive and guided way. Where they have access to resources and information that enables them to be connected to wider society and to the world. Where awareness and sensitization programs can be run on HIV/AIDS, male / female relationships, drug abuse, cultural heritage and tourism advertisement with reference from Mkwawa and Isimilar achieves including Ruaha National Park which is the largest in Tanzania etc.
The multipurpose hall would be furnished for use as a reading and study room or workshop and training purposes. While two rooms of the center will host a library and a study room, in which students of all levels will have the possibility to deepen the knowledge acquired at school. There will be also a general book section for leisure reading. This facility will give the possibility to the students attending low level schools, to be prepared for the final exams. There will be also a veranda space where a wider public will have the possibility to read in a comfortable and quite environment.
9.1.5 ICT Training
The course of computer directed by CCDO animators will involve the needy orphans and child labourers of the community of Iringa and the women who cannot be admitted to similar courses because of the age, of the cost and the level of education. This program of computer science is the only one existing in the zone of Iringa Municipality. The number of beneficiaries will target a particular part of the population, on average 102 most vulnerable children and 50 women. The center will also offer the possibility of using computers facilities in order to train local NGOs staff and improve the quality of their administration, and acquire ICT skills for all the beneficiaries of the center.
9.1.6 Vocational Skills Training
In the aim of improving the life quality of disadvantaged persons and to give a professional qualification to the young people, CCDO will improve the quality of the existing vocational skills training, and increase the number of beneficiaries through acquisition of more training materials and instructors. Because of the problems off insuring a constant supply of electricity (sometimes the distribution is limited to 3 – 12 hours per day) CCDO will purchase a three – phase generator. At the end of the professional training the graduates will receive a professional kit (box of tools, sewing machine,..) that will put them in the position to start quickly working on their own. The total number of beneficiaries is of 250 most vulnerable children. Also, CCDO will organize vocational trainings for disadvantaged youth aged from 12 – 30 years, with the aim of offering vocational skills for job in the following skills areas; tailoring, hairdressing, video making / photo making in which the project will be benefiting 60 tailoring, 52 hairdressing, and 30 video-making / photo youths.
9.1.7 Support HIV/AIDS Affected Families
In order to limit the spread of AIDS diffusion among the population of Iringa and Makete district, CCDO supports 20 school needy orphans selected in Secondary schools for “O”Level and 67 affected families whose children are already beneficiaries of the center. The HIV affected persons are supported through the subsidies of medical care for the affected and start up input for the head of family in order to set up income generating activities. Furthermore the beneficiaries of the program will be referred to medical centers in order to receive free medical care and antiretroviral. Among the families supported by CCDO, 40 of them, the most disadvantaged ones, will receive a further support through food distribution.
9.1.8 Awareness Meeting
Once every month the main room will host sensitization and awareness meetings under the facilitation of professional and experienced trainers. The meetings will be followed by a discussion among the participants. The main topics will be; gender based violence, HIV/AIDS prevention, children rights, general health, life saving strategies, women empowerment, cultural heritage and tourism promotion. The planned number of beneficiaries is 72.
9.1.9 Cinema
For the children the multimedia activities constitute a leisure and fast instrument to learn new things. Through documentaries and cartoons, this activity will reach a greater number of children in order to facilitate learning in a leisure atmosphere.
10.0 In Setting Up Our Partnership
In setting up our partnership in this project it was agreed that CCDO management will invite project donor to come to work with us by giving technical and advisory team for the promotion of reciprocal exchange information, trainings, and knowledge transfer and the project partner will be responsible to all procurement of our Orphanage Center and organization equipments. CCDO will continue to mobilize its resources for the sustainability of this project and to engage into consignment/ shipment material procured by project partner. While the assisted technical and advisory team will work to train our staffs on how to use and operate the procured equipments.
11. CCDO Contribution
The Children Care Development Organization (CCDO) has managed to buy 10 acres of land and to construct a building for CCDO Orphans Rehabilitation Center but we are lacking roofing construction materials as such 200 bags of cement, 400 timbers, 450 iron sheet, 150 painting tins, 200 ceiling boards, windows and doors frames and other related finishing materials. We have various type of workshop tools that need to be put in this Center and among these workshop tools are sewing machines – manual, treadles, overlockers, industrial, haberdashery & cotton clothing, knitting machines, tools – carpentry tools, woodworking machinery, plumbing tools, motor mechanic tools, masonry & bricklaying tools, electricians tool & machines, cobbler / leatherwork/ upholstery tools, blacksmith tools, metal work & engineering workshop tools and machinery lathes, drilling, milling machines, welding machines (MIG & arc), horticultural tools and typewriter tools.
Also we have enough books for our orphans center library that we received from our partner known as the Coalition of Children Books Authors from United States of America, 50 computers, 1 project vehicle but the problems is due to the lacking of roofing construction materials.
13. Proposed Sources of Funding
Children Care Development Organization (CCDO) is looking for separate entities to sponsor and fund proposed CCDO Orphanage Center. Each home will be dedicated to the sponsor who will be allowed to choose its name and will be responsible for the building and monthly costs of their home. They can choose to be as involved in the project as they wish.
We are looking to gain sponsorship and support from local / international donor agencies and charities for the costs of roofing construction materials which we are lacking. Funds will be generated locally via several small projects on the land i.e. the poultry farm, tree nurseries preparation, ICT, Tailoring and Income generating activities. Crops will be grown to cut down on costs and to become as self-reliant and sustainable as possible.
14. Organizational Capacity
The Organization has one experienced accountant and one cashier who assist her to keep all financial records and financial progress reporting for our programmes. CCDO has a Mid- Term and Summative auditing for our finances accountability and responsibility so as to enhance and improve our organizations financial controls.
15. Monitoring and Evaluation
The Project Coordinator and supervisors coordinating the programmes and monitor the activities through visits, meetings and reports. She also supervises the teaching staffs this project work. The regular reports of the project are the tool for evaluation of the project. The Project Coordinator keeps abreast of implementation schedule of different activities, reviews progress of the needy orphans and Child Labour Care Centre project at periodic intervals and closely interacts with different project functionaries for the smooth and effective implementation of the project.
16. Project Beneficiaries.
- Primary school going orphans.
- Secondary school going orphans.
- School drop outs, street children, child labourers, early pregnancies girls, widows, and children heading families
- People living with HIV/AIDS.
- Unemployed youngsters and poor marginalized rural women.
17. Organization and Management
This project will be implemented by Children Care Development Organization (CCDO). CCDO using its own staff and the staff to be employed shall carry out the activities. CCDO shall also monitor the progress of the project on daily basis. Evaluation shall take places involving all stakeholders the collaborating offices are youth, sport and culture offices, micro and small-scale trade and industry offices, and office for coordinating civic societies and social affairs and city administration of Iringa. These will provide technical support and collaborate in implementing, monitoring and evaluation. The donors are expected to fund the project. Donors also have the responsibility of monitoring the progress and finally evaluate. Community of Iringa region shall involve from planning to evaluation of the project.
17. Sustainability
The project is planned for 6 months to implement special needy orphans and child labour rehabilitation for 102 children at Mkimbizi village we have identified the needy child labourers and releasing them from the clutches of employers to enable them join in the mainstream of the society. We adopt them for the initial years; propose them for the continuation of education by non-formal education at our centre. We attend their needs of 102 children each year and after giving proper education, they will be made to join formal schooling for up to 14 years old school drop out children. In period of 3 years about 250 children would become get free from clutches of child laboring.
After 14 years children will be given skill-oriented trainings like tailoring, ICT, painting, book binding, screen printing, hair dressing, metal works, Greetings Card making and bakery. Once there children made to join the main stream the community, district councils, CCDO and district level federation will take the responsibility for look after these children needs and make the project will be of success full and sustainable in the future. We also attempt to join some the selected children to government hostel in near by. The organization is monitoring the project in all the stages to sustain the project activities.
Also, the sustainability of this project will be guaranteed because the project involves the participation and collaboration of all concerned line offices and community. The beneficiaries through training given to them shall handle their business properly. The start up capital given on credit basis will be profitable as the beneficiaries are engaged in trade of their interest. Using the profits they will undergo their business on their own capital. Their repayment shall be used to provide as credit for who are even outside the center. It revolves from one group of beneficiaries to other youngsters. By doing so the revolving fund is expected not only to benefit the first beneficiaries but also majority of youth who have zeal to be self – employed. The project in general is expected to reduce unemployment rate.
18. Conclusion
In this fundraising project we need to be supported only roofing construction materials which we are lacking to finalize our center construction. We should be very happy to receive any types of donated roofing construction materials. Various of the interested roofing construction materials that we will be happy to receive as humanitarian aid to us are iron sheets, cement, painting color for our buildings, nails, ceiling boards, timbers, window glass, and other related center equipment like desks, school tables, computer tables, office equipment including orphans ambulance. Therefore, you’re kindly requested to partnership with us for the implementation of this unique project to be conducted in Iringa for the well being of our needy orphans and child labourers and most vulnerable children (orphans).
19. Estimated Funding Needed
CCDO is starting from square one. There will the costs of purchasing the Center office furniture, constructing the Center and fence, plus the purchase of Orphan Ambulance vehicle for transporting sick orphans to Iringa Referral Hospital for further medical treatment. There will also be monthly maintenance costs, all of which is described below.
Majaliwa Mbogella
Chairperson
Children Care Development Organization