A baseline survey was done by Mr. Shamsi Mhina on the year 2003 at Ruhembe ward-Kilosa District, the results of the survey revealed an increased rate of HIV/AIDS infections among youth, children, pregnant mothers and adults, increased number of orphans, low income level of the people, inadequate opportunities to pre-school education, adult illiteracy, insufficient portable water and poor sanitation, gender inequality and poor farming practices. The needs to find means of addressing those problems in a collective and sustainable ways becomes imperative at that material time, where, in February 14, 2004 Tujikomboe Group was officially born for the purpose of build such a group of an organization in order to respond to the needs and problems of the people residing both in rural and urban settings and for other matters related to it.  Tujikomboe Group has been fully incorporated under the laws of Tanzania since November, 2004 with registration number SO: 12888, works from village level to national level with the aim of improving lives of the people by reducing income poverty through provision of agricultural extension services, promote the rights of children and gender equity, preventing and mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS, improved acess to water and sanitation practice and promoting basic education. Currently, Tujikomboe Group has two offices. The main office, which is situated at Ruaha Area, Kidodi ward-Kilosa District and the sub-office which is located in Tanga City at the junction of Jamaa Road and 20th Street. Tujikomboe Group has 12 staffs and more than 15 volunteers.

     Products and Services offered

(a)   Increased community awareness on HIV&AIDS prevention to in-school children. Currently, more than 580 in-school peer educators were trained as peer educators on HIV in two wards of Kidodi and Ruhembe located in Kilosa District. The in-school peer education program on HIV has increased wide understanding on HIV & AIDS. In-school peer educators were trained on HIV prevention, stigma reduction and counseling skills. The in-school peer education program on HIV made children to get courage to go for HIV testing. A total of 21 in-school children (male 10 female 11) have been tested for HIV. If you visit one of the primary school in the project area, you will find HIV education posters placed against the walls of the classrooms. The posters have been made by peer educators as a mean to educate other pupils. This shown that peer education intervention on HIV prevention has sustained at the project areas. Also, community meetings on HIV/AIDS prevention, stigma reduction and impact mitigations were also offered at the village levels where community members in the four wards-Kidodi, Mikumi, Ulaya  and Ruhembe benefited. 

(b)    Tujikomboe Group offer legal education on probate procedures, inheritance laws and will writing to parents, guardians, teachers, community leaders and children were educated. This intervention was done in the wards of Kidodi, Ulaya, Ruhembe, Malolo and Mikumi in Kilosa District-Morogoro and in Kilulu ward in Muheza District Tanga.  This intervention is done based on Tujikomboe Group finds that, in many cases, parents died without making a “will”.  Relatives took the properties of the deceased parent leaving children homeless and property less. Children and the widow are mostly affected as they have no power to claim their right to inherit.

(c)   Conduct community mobile birth registration to reach children in the remote areas and provide them with birth certificate.  Mobile birth registration strategy which implies registering births at the village level has first been conducted in Tanzania by Tujikomboe Group since the year 2006 with financial support from Firelight Foundation. In this process, Birth and Deaths Registrar is contracted by Tujikomboe Group, join with Tujikomboe Group team in a car, and went to the villages with all the necessary registration documents for registering child births. A total of 1,372 children who reside in the wards of Ruhembe, Kidodi, Malolo, Mikumi and Ulaya were registered and provided with birth certificate. Among those registered, the <5 years children are 291(male 173, female 118), children aged 6-10 years are 490(male 289, female 201), children aged 11-18 years are 591 (male 340, female 251).  In the year 2011 in Kilulu ward- Muheza District-Tanga region, a total of 407 children and young people were registered and provided with birth certificates while 45 parents, guardians, teacher and community leaders trained on the laws of inheritance and will writing. In the project area, mobile birth registration gain a substantial achievements as it really sustained at the local level such that: many parents who were not registered their children during the scheduled days of mobile registration due to different reasons, are now use to save money and travel to Kilosa District to meet the Birth and Death Registrar so as to register their children and redeem birth certificate, the situation which was not a common practice before the project

(d)   Tujikomboe Group offer extension services to small scale famers. This is done by conduct Participatory Reflection Action (PRA) at the village level where the three most identified felt needs are outlined by community members during community meetings and researched for actions to be taken. For example PRA conducted at Kitete Msindazi Village in Ruhembe ward-Kilosa made youth (men and women)  to come out with feasible plan of utilizing a piece of  land of 3 acres  for horticulture. The land is crossed by spring water that adds value for irrigation farming. The group grows onions, tomatoes, lady fingers and salad. This group has embarked to this project after researching for price of inputs, market of their products, competitors and other factors such as environment.

    Facilities Available at Tujikomboe Group

(a)   Dedicated staffs who works with and for the people to address their felt needs

(b)   Availability of computers, printers and internet services

(c)   The office has motorbike used for project field outreach

(d)   Training manuals on HIV Prevention, Stigma reduction, Legal Education and Will Writing, Community access to safe water and sanitation practices, Home Based Life Saving Skills(HBLSS)-for reduction of maternal and < 5 years child mortalities.

(e)   Consultation services on water (policy, strategy, program and acts) and sanitation (2) Home Based Life Saving Skills (HBLSS) (3) Probate procedures, inheritance laws and Will writing (4) Agricultural Extension Services to small-scale farmers.

Current Activities

(a)   Conduct legal education, inheritance laws and will writing

(b)   Conduct community mobile birth registration on certification at the local level

(c)   Strengthening national advocacy strategy on free birth registration and certification to children under 18 years  and to ensure that health facilities are used as birth registration points, such that: a baby can be registered and provided with birth certificate within 7 days after delivery.

(d)   Conduct consultation services in areas of water and sanitation,

(e)   Conduct training and advocacy strategy on reduction of maternal and child mortalities through Home Based Life Saving Skills (HBLSS) Approach

(f)      Promotion of children rights and children Act.

(g)   Agricultural extension services to small-scale farmers

(h)   Prevention and mitigation of HIV & AIDS to children in school and out of school, youth and community.

       Future Activities

(a)   To conduct training to medical officer, nurse’s midwives, clinical officers and registered nurses on Home Based Life Saving Skills (HBLSS). This training will be done in Tanga region where maternal mortality is on the increase. More than 40 participants will be trained. The trained participants will be responsible to extend this education to community using house to house training(where pregnant mother residing) and at the dispensary level(during clinic days)

(b)   To strengthen national advocacy strategy on universal birth registrations to enhance free birth registration to children and encourage health facilities to be used as birth registration points.

(c)   To conduct social marketing of will document so as to increase demand driven service on inheritance laws and will writing.

To conduct social marketing of packaging facilities of agricultural inputs especially oranges and paddy. This is because; most famers have no ideas of packaging. Poor packing of agricultural input reducing market value of the product, reduce quantity and quality of goods as most of it damaged as disposal

Uchunguzi wa awali ulifanyika kwa Mheshimiwa Shamsi Mhina juu ya mwaka 2003 katika Kata ya Ruhembe-wilaya ya Kilosa, matokeo ya utafiti huo umebaini kiwango cha ongezeko la UKIMWI miongoni mwa vijana, watoto, akina mama wajawazito na watu wazima, kuongezeka kwa idadi ya watoto yatima, kipato cha chini ngazi ya watu, uhaba wa fursa ya kabla ya kuanza shule na elimu, watu wazima wasiojua kusoma na kuandika, haitoshi portable maji na usafi wa mazingira maskini, usawa wa kijinsia na maskini mazoea ya kilimo. Ya mahitaji ya kutafuta njia ya kushughulikia matatizo hayo kwa njia ya pamoja na endelevu na inakuwa muhimu wakati huo vifaa, ambapo, 14 Februari 2004 Tujikomboe Group ilikuwa rasmi kuzaliwa kwa lengo la kujenga kikundi kama ya shirika ili kuweza kukabiliana na mahitaji na matatizo ya watu wote wanaoishi katika mazingira ya mijini na vijijini na kwa ajili ya mambo mengine kuhusiana na hilo. Tujikomboe kundi imekuwa kuingizwa kikamilifu chini ya sheria ya Tanzania tangu Novemba, 2004 na namba ya usajili SO: 12,888, kazi kuanzia ngazi ya kijiji hadi ngazi ya kitaifa kwa lengo la kuboresha maisha ya watu na kupunguza umaskini wa kipato kwa njia ya utoaji wa huduma za ugani, kuendeleza haki za watoto na usawa wa kijinsia, kuzuia na kupunguza madhara ya VVU / Ukimwi, kuboresha acess na elimu ya maji na usafi wa mazingira na kuendeleza mazoezi ya msingi. Sasa, Tujikomboe Group ina ofisi mbili. Ofisi kuu, ambayo iko katika eneo la Ruaha, Kata ya Kidodi-wilaya ya Kilosa na ofisi ndogo ambayo iko katika Jiji la Tanga katika makutano ya Barabara ya Jamaa na Mtaa wa 20. Tujikomboe Group ina wafanyakazi 12 na kujitolea zaidi ya 15.

Bidhaa na huduma zinazotolewa

(A) Kuongeza ufahamu wa jamii juu ya kujikinga na virusi vya UKIMWI kwa watoto katika shule. Sasa, zaidi ya 580 waelimishaji rika katika shule walipewa mafunzo kama waelimishaji rika juu ya VVU katika kata mbili za Kidodi na Ruhembe ziko katika wilaya ya Kilosa. Ya rika katika shule ya mpango wa elimu juu ya VVU kumeongeza ufahamu mpana juu ya virusi vya UKIMWI. Katika shule waelimishaji rika walipewa mafunzo juu ya Ukimwi, kuondoa unyanyapaa na ujuzi wa ushauri nasaha. Ya rika katika shule ya mpango wa elimu juu ya VVU kufanywa watoto kupata ujasiri wa kwenda kwa ajili ya kupima VVU. Jumla ya 21 katika watoto wa shule (wanaume 10 wanawake 11) wamekuwa kupima VVU. Kama wewe kutembelea moja ya shule ya msingi katika eneo la mradi, utakuta mabango elimu ya VVU kuwekwa dhidi ya kuta za madarasa. mabango yamefanywa kwa waelimishaji rika kama maana ya kuelimisha wanafunzi wengine. Huu umeonyesha kwamba rika kuingilia elimu katika kuzuia VVU ina endelevu katika maeneo ya mradi. Pia, mikutano ya jamii juu ya kuzuia maambukizi ya VVU / UKIMWI, kupunguza unyanyapaa na athari mitigations pia inapatikana katika ngazi ya kijiji ambapo jamii katika kata nne-Kidodi, Mikumi, Ulaya na Ruhembe kunufaika.

(B) Tujikomboe Group kutoa elimu juu ya taratibu za kisheria probate, sheria urithi na kuandika kwa wazazi, walezi, walimu, viongozi wa jamii na watoto walikuwa elimu. kuingilia Hii ilifanyika katika kata ya Kidodi, Ulaya, Ruhembe, Mikumi na Malolo katika Wilaya ya Kilosa-Morogoro na katika Kilulu kata katika Wilaya ya Muheza Tanga. kuingilia Hii ni kazi ya msingi Tujikomboe Group anaona kuwa, katika kesi nyingi, wazazi akafa bila kufanya "mapenzi". Jamaa alichukua mali za mzazi wa marehemu na kuacha watoto wasio na makazi na mali kidogo. Watoto na mjane ni zaidi walioathirika kama wao hawana uwezo wa kudai haki yao ya kurithi.

(C) Maadili ya jamii ya Mkono kuzaliwa usajili kufikia watoto katika maeneo ya kijijini na kuwapatia cheti cha kuzaliwa. Simu ya kuzaliwa mkakati usajili ambayo ina maana ya kusajili uzazi katika ngazi ya kijiji ina kwanza imekuwa uliofanywa Tanzania na Tujikomboe Group tangu mwaka 2006 kwa msaada wa kifedha kutoka Firelight Foundation. Katika mchakato huu, kuzaliwa na Vifo Msajili ni mkataba na Tujikomboe Group, kujiunga na timu Tujikomboe Group katika gari, na kwenda vijiji na nyaraka zote muhimu usajili kwa kusajili uzazi na mtoto. Jumla ya watoto 1,372 wanaoishi katika kata ya Ruhembe, Kidodi, Malolo, Mikumi na Ulaya walikuwa kusajiliwa na kupewa cheti cha kuzaliwa. Kati ya wale waliojiandikisha, na <5 miaka watoto ni 291 (wanaume 173, wanawake 118), watoto wenye umri wa miaka 6-10 ni 490 (wanaume 289, wanawake 201), watoto wenye umri wa miaka 11-18 ni 591 (wanaume 340, wanawake 251) . Katika mwaka 2011 katika mkoa wa kata ya Kilulu-Wilaya ya Muheza-Tanga, jumla ya watoto 407 na vijana walikuwa kusajiliwa na kupewa vyeti vya kuzaliwa wakati wazazi 45, walezi, walimu na viongozi wa jumuiya mafunzo ya sheria za urithi na kuandika. Katika eneo la mradi, simu ya kuzaliwa usajili kupata mafanikio makubwa kama ni kweli endelevu katika ngazi ya jamii kwamba vile: wazazi wengi ambao hawakuwa registered watoto wao wakati wa...