Short Summary

60% of children in Potwe ward are orphan and vulnerable; 90% of them lack birth certificate, meaning that they are not legally recognized when claim inheritance . Help Tujikomboe Group with fund in order to enable it execute Community Mobile Birth Registration and provision of Birth Certificate to 518 Orphans and Vulnerable Children affected by HIV/AIDS in Potwe ward, located in Muheza District, Tanga Region, Tanzania

THE NECESSITY AND URGENCY 

Just imagine the reality ahead of them if these Orphans and Vulnerable Children not supported with birth certificate.  It is no doughty that; it will be very difficult to caregivers and relatives to enforcing their right to parental property in a court of law. The child who has no birth certificate is always in danger of being shut out of society-denied the right to an official identity, a recognized name and a nationality. It should be noted that; some of these OVCs are cared by older children while other nurtured by relatives who are poor and old that they do not have enough funds for transport and accommodation to go long distance to the District Birth Registrar  office in searching for birth certificate. Lack of birth certificate will exacerbates their poverty to the MVCs and underscores their marginalization. While birth certificate does not of itself guarantee education, health, protection and participation; its absence can put these fundamental rights beyond the reach of those already on the margins of society.

THE REQUEST;

We request a total of USD ($) 14,000/= which will suffice to meet car hire costs for 35 days campaign, facilitation fee to Tujikomboe Group staffs as Assistant Registrar and District Birth Registrar who will conduct community mobile birth registration campaign for 35 days. This fund will be used also to support fee of acquiring birth certificate to orphans who nurtured by orphan and those children who are nurtured by poor old relatives. A total of 518 Orphans and other Vulnerable Children (which is 98% of all MVCs in Potwe ward) will get birth certificate and therefore become direct beneficiaries of this campaign. Please DONATE NOW to support this important campaign, you can transfer your donation to the EXIM BANK TANZANIA LTD - TANGA BRANCH ; P.O.BOX 729-TANGA; Account Name is TUJIKOMBOE GROUP; Account Number is  0758140002; Swift Code is : EXTNTZTZ . Tujikomboe Group is looking forward to receive your financial support.

What We Need & What You Get

We requested $ 14,000/= to meet the following costs

(1) Car hire costs for 35 days  $ 4,000/=

(2) Facilitation fee and lunch for Muheza District Birth Registrar while registering orphans and vulnerable children during community mobile registration for 35 days is $ 2,281

(3) Facilitation fee and lunch for three Tujikomboe Group  staffs as Assistant Registrar while registering orphans and vulnerable children during community mobile registration for 35 days is $ 3,500/=

(4) Printing of birth registration education book titled "TARATIBU NA FAIDA ZA KUMSAJILI MTOTO" meaning Procedures and Benefits of Registering a Child, is $ 2,700/=

(5) Pay fee of acquiring birth certificate to orphans who headed by orphans and those  orphans who are nurtured by poor old relative is $ 1,519

If we don’t reach our entire goal, the fund shall be used print birth registration book titled "TARATIBU NA FAIDA ZA KUMSAJILI MTOTO" (in English: procedures and benefits of registering a child) 

The Impact

Your financial support will enhance Tujikomboe Group to have basic and strong evidenced based data to be used to roll forward universal birth registration in Tanzania: Tujikomboe Group, through its experience of conducting mobile birth registration in rural communities find the necessity of amending birth registration acts to allow localization of birth registration process in Tanzania. Tujikomboe Group will continue to advice government of Tanzania through RITA(Registration, Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency) to localize the process of birth registration to marginalized poor children. The aim is to use health facilities as registration point, so that a new born can get birth certificate within the age of 90 days and that all < 5 years children attending clinic for immunization can be registered and provided with  birth certificate.  At the local, village government should be empowered by laws to register birth and provide the certificate. All these have been adopted by RITA through its <5years National Birth Registration Strategy(U5NBRS) although its implementation records a slow pace. With your funding support, Tujikomboe Group will fasten  the process of implementation of Under 5 National Birth Registration Strategy(U5NBRS).This will be done using nation  review meeting of the U5NBRS and other advocacy strategies to awake RITA and other stakeholder to speed up implementation of U5NBRS.