ABOUT OUR PROJECTS
CHIPS-CF [Child Protection and Survival in Commercial Farms] anticipates and provides for specific pilot projects which could establish the basic for a more vigorous national programme of action.The plan is to mount pilot project in each of high concentrations of orphans and vulnerable children [OVC] in commercial farm in TANZANIA.
CHIPS-CF ensures that OVC shall not be abused and that the children are given proper opportunities and facilities to develop in a healthy manner and in a condion of freedom and dignity and that child and youth are protected against exploitaitation and against moral and material abandonment. Thus the problem of OVC welfare in commercial farms in TANZANIA requires a considerable attention from social scientists, activists on the field, and the goverment. CHIPS-CF realizes and accepts the truth that protection of children against violation of OVC right is essential to their mental and physical development and in the ultimate analysis to the development of a nation as a whole.
Therefore CHIPS-CF projects encompass dimensions that aim at:-
-Physical and mental development of OVC in commercial farms, their proctection against violation of childs rights through formal and non-formal education;
-The prohibition of child labour in work which is hazardous to their health and well-being;
-The improvement of conditions under which children work [where such work is non-hazardous and not banned by law] protection of such children from exploitation, and acces to improved nutrition and maximum levels of education, health protection and skills development.
-A more systematic way for tracking and research to a wider public and assess the flow of finances for basic services, the availability of teachers, health staffs, councillors, volunteers and other critical inputs especially books, drugs and medical supplies, clothes and accomodation.
-Provision of non-formal education:most of the OVC in commercial farms in TANZANIA are either drop outs from schools or have never been to school at all. Under the project, non-formal education will be made available to these children. An essential purpose of non- formal education wiil be to impact literacy skills of primary education level in order that these children may be able to benefit from other sources of knowledge and information in their later life.
PLANNING TASKS:
The relationship between orphanhood and and poverty mirrors the association between poverty and HIV/AIDS prevalency in commercial farms. Orphanhood is more prevalent in commercial farms which also have higher population densities of migrant labourers.
Poverty reduction strategy will reduce the incidence of child labour and improvements in overall employment and conditions and thus supporting efforts at improving, promoting and protecting the welfare of children in commercial farms.
Orphanage and vulnerability deprives OVC of educatinal opportunities, minimizes their chances for vocational training, hampers their intellectual development and by forcing them into the army of unskilled labourers, condems them to low wages and hard labour all their lives. Our purpose is to lift orphas and vulnerable is to lift orphans and vulnerable children between the age of 5-17 years out of their difficult circumstances and find way of assuring them a more secure future in the society.Being a social, cultural and economic problem prevention and control of violation of child rights in commercial farms will very much depend on effective community based preventions, care and support interventions.
The project will adequately address the problems of OVC in commercial farms, the local people and communities will actively participate in the development and implementation of our projects. Stakeholders including project beneficiaries are true partiners in the development of the project.
The internal dimension centres on learning how local communities can manage their resources; that is planning and goal setting , resource mobilization, resource management, conflict resolution etc. The central focus is always capacity to effectively work as a group, foster democratic process in developing efforts through consensus, conflict management and networking.
LAND USE PLAN
CHIPS-CF have programmes to reinforce efforts by communities and families to care for OVC through communal projects and activities to ensure that children are fed, housed and clothed.
The aim is build the capacity of OVC to support themselves.
a.Farm one (10 hectres)
- Poultry keeping (local chicken species)
-Goats and sheep keeping
-Pigs keeping
b.Farm two (7 hectres)
-Maize farming
-Rice farming
c.Farms three(2 hectres)
-Pond fish keeping
d.Farms four(3 hectres)
-Tours site camp and petrol station
e.Farm five(10 hectres)
-Cassava farming
-Fruits trees planting
f.Farm six(7 hecters)
-Trees planting
PLANNING INPUTS
Human resources-teachers, health staffs, councillors and volunters and their skills, knowledge and experience.
Material resources- premises, office furnitures,computers, printers, cameras,vehicles,drugs and medical supplies, books, sports, and games supplies, stationaries, radio and Television sets, overhead projector.
Finances- cash or equivalent.
Sources-CHIPS-CF members, all children lovers and well wishers,volunteer sponsors and donors.
CHIPS-CF [Child Protection and Survival in Commercial Farms] anticipates and provides for specific pilot projects which could establish the basic for a more vigorous national programme of action.The plan is to mount pilot project in each of high concentrations of orphans and vulnerable children [OVC] in commercial farm in TANZANIA.
CHIPS-CF ensures that OVC shall not be abused and that the children are given proper opportunities and facilities to develop in a healthy manner and in a condion of freedom and dignity and that child and youth are protected against exploitaitation and against moral and material abandonment. Thus the problem of OVC welfare in commercial farms in TANZANIA requires a considerable attention from social scientists, activists on the field, and the goverment. CHIPS-CF realizes and accepts the truth that protection of children against violation of OVC right is essential to their mental and physical development and in the ultimate analysis to the development of a nation as a whole.
Therefore CHIPS-CF projects encompass dimensions that aim at:-
-Physical and mental development of OVC in commercial farms, their proctection against violation of childs rights through formal and non-formal education;
-The prohibition of child labour in work which is hazardous to their health and well-being;
-The improvement of conditions under which children work [where such work is non-hazardous and not banned by law] protection of such children from exploitation, and acces to improved nutrition and maximum levels of education, health protection and skills development.
-A more systematic way for tracking and research to a wider public and assess the flow of finances for basic services, the availability of teachers, health staffs, councillors, volunteers and other critical inputs especially books, drugs and medical supplies, clothes and accomodation.
-Provision of non-formal education:most of the OVC in commercial farms in TANZANIA are either drop outs from schools or have never been to school at all. Under the project, non-formal education will be made available to these children. An essential purpose of non- formal education wiil be to impact literacy skills of primary education level in order that these children may be able to benefit from other sources of knowledge and information in their later life.
PLANNING TASKS:
The relationship between orphanhood and and poverty mirrors the association between poverty and HIV/AIDS prevalency in commercial farms. Orphanhood is more prevalent in commercial farms which also have higher population densities of migrant labourers.
Poverty reduction strategy will reduce the incidence of child labour and improvements in overall employment and conditions and thus supporting efforts at improving, promoting and protecting the welfare of children in commercial farms.
Orphanage and vulnerability deprives OVC of educatinal opportunities, minimizes their chances for vocational training, hampers their intellectual development and by forcing them into the army of unskilled labourers, condems them to low wages and hard labour all their lives. Our purpose is to lift orphas and vulnerable is to lift orphans and vulnerable children between the age of 5-17 years out of their difficult circumstances and find way of assuring them a more secure future in the society.Being a social, cultural and economic problem prevention and control of violation of child rights in commercial farms will very much depend on effective community based preventions, care and support interventions.
The project will adequately address the problems of OVC in commercial farms, the local people and communities will actively participate in the development and implementation of our projects. Stakeholders including project beneficiaries are true partiners in the development of the project.
The internal dimension centres on learning how local communities can manage their resources; that is planning and goal setting , resource mobilization, resource management, conflict resolution etc. The central focus is always capacity to effectively work as a group, foster democratic process in developing efforts through consensus, conflict management and networking.
LAND USE PLAN
CHIPS-CF have programmes to reinforce efforts by communities and families to care for OVC through communal projects and activities to ensure that children are fed, housed and clothed.
The aim is build the capacity of OVC to support themselves.
a.Farm one (10 hectres)
- Poultry keeping (local chicken species)
-Goats and sheep keeping
-Pigs keeping
b.Farm two (7 hectres)
-Maize farming
-Rice farming
c.Farms three(2 hectres)
-Pond fish keeping
d.Farms four(3 hectres)
-Tours site camp and petrol station
e.Farm five(10 hectres)
-Cassava farming
-Fruits trees planting
f.Farm six(7 hecters)
-Trees planting
PLANNING INPUTS
Human resources-teachers, health staffs, councillors and volunters and their skills, knowledge and experience.
Material resources- premises, office furnitures,computers, printers, cameras,vehicles,drugs and medical supplies, books, sports, and games supplies, stationaries, radio and Television sets, overhead projector.
Finances- cash or equivalent.
Sources-CHIPS-CF members, all children lovers and well wishers,volunteer sponsors and donors.
May 9, 2010