The outbreak of HIV/AIDS has caused both social and economic disasters in Misungwi district. Many households have lost either father or mother or both leaving children with no body to attend and care for them. This has caused them many problems and suffering by not getting standard basic requirements such as, clothes, shelter and education. Growing under such difficult situation has forced the adolescent orphans (OVC) to get involved into risky livelihood earning activities that expose and make them vulnerable to HIV/AIDS infection and spread. Experience has shown that people use to lobby adolescent orphan girls using money and cause to engage in sexual affair. a head of the family of the young adolescent orphan girls may be grandfather or mother .the project also will contributes to the fostering of sustainable behaviour in the community whereby they wish to contribute to the welfare of the disadvantaged and most vulnerable in the community

How will the project address this problem? The project will cooperate with the National effort and share the burden by establishing BATEZ CHARITY BOX the methodology which will be used to collect used clothes, shoes from different collection centre and modifier it .also the project will train tailoring adolescent orphan, shoes modifying skills which will be used as a conventional skills for building economic stability and self reliance. Adolescent orphan girls will be equipped with tailoring skills that will be used for project development and also be utilised effectively for earning a living in crisis whether family or individual in that way they will supervise well all charity box distributed within the region.

The clothes collected from different collection centre will benefit 220 children and youth with limited education opportunities and at risk of working, ages 8 to 12 and youth between 13 up to 35.

65 poor families of the children and youth who participate in the project.

120 women participate in Samaritan promoter established with the project from each church and mosque.

The total budget of the project implementation will be USD 14693.75

Batez theatre practitioner established as community based organization in november1999 formed by rural youth in Usagara division in Misungwi district but was officially registered in2001.since established Batez has been conducting and setting up classification of implementation to solve the problem putting up maximum emphasis to delegate the society through HIV/AIDS prevention program, life skill training camp, home based care program, youth debate panel, popular theatre for development program, provide nutrition support program to widows and people living with HIV. School uniform and education materials support to orphan.

             Ufugaji ni moja ya shughuli  muhimu za uzalishajimali wilayani Misungwi