Street children project

Street children project

There are an estimated 437000 street children in Tanzania. Many live on the street because of the violence and abuse they suffered at home. Many more face daily abuse on the streets from the police, sex-tourism, forced labour, drugs/alcohol and even each other.

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Outreach team:

The Outreach Team is the first step in our programme to build a relationship of trust with the child, identifying and understanding how the child came to be living on the street.

The goals are:

  • To support the children with basic needs such as medical care, food and clothing

  • To inform the children about our Drop-inn centre

  • To give them our phone numbers or other ways to reach us

Drop-inn Centre:

The Drop-inn Centre offers the children food, hygiene facilities, medical and psychological care, non-formal education, Life skills (child rights, alcohol and drugs,organ trafficking, HIV etc) and recreational activities. The Drop-inn centre is a place where they can find safety, understanding and support. The children can come to the Drop-inn Centre during opening hours.

Transitional Home: (future plan)

The transitional Home offers accommodation in a save and secure environment. It is open day and night. Access to the home is completely voluntary. Children can decide how long they want to stay. The home offers a family like atmosphere with fulltime workers on hand to offer much needed care and stability. It is a hands-on approach where the children are fully involved at every level. The home offers access to child friendly education programmes, schools and vocational trainings. In addition, the home is used as an emergency shelter for children facing medical or Social emergencies

Re-integration:

The reintegration of each child into society is one of the most challenging and top priorities of Mama Dani Centre. We provide a comprehensive support plan adapted to the child holistic need. Together with the child we set out specific goals with progressive and achievable steps. The team works closely with families (if possible) to understand and try to solve the initial reason why the child is on the streets and try to reunite them and prevent them to live on the street again. Also, due to learn-work skills we try to provide an income for the older child so that they can provide for themselves and build a future.

Our recovery programme revolves around the child.

Helping each child recover from

  • Emotional, physical, sexual trauma,
  • Regain confidence
  • Assimilate into society
  • Entry into the educational system
  • Opportunities for training and employment

In their time with us, the child acquires:

  • New skills,
  • Undertake responsibilities
  • Learn discipline

In an environment of love and acceptance

Project Details

Our sports coaching Volunteer Project has a start date on 01 and 15 of each month. You should arrange your flights to arrive into and depart from Iringa-Nduli Airport for the dates specified in your booking confirmation.

Please contact us for start dates.

From $240/week

Included

  • Accommodation
  • Orientation
  • All project related transport
  • 24 hour support of experienced on-site project co-ordinator
  • A donation to the project and care of the children
  • Airport transfer on arrival and departure on set dates

Excluded

  • Flights
  • All meals and drinks
  • Travel insurance and visas (C class visa for volunteering costs $200, plus tourist visa price for up to 2 months)
  • Extra excursions and trips

You will receive a comprehensive orientation with one of the project managers on arrival. This will cover the following areas:

  • An introduction to Tanzanian culture and values, food and practices.
  • Your health and safety whilst in Tanzania.
  • Transport and money in Tanzania.
  • Workplace ethics and code of conduct.
  • A familiarisation tour of Iringa town and introduction to its surrounding areas.
  • An introduction to the project areas.
  • An introduction to the sports coaching activities, aims and methods.
  • Places to visit in your free time and at weekends.

There are a couple of nice places in and around Iringa that you can relax at during the weekend.  Iringa is also well located for safaris to the Ruaha National Park, Mikumi, and Selous.  The project managers will be happy to help organize excursions if you are interested during your stay.

Whilst you are at the Sports coaching project in Iringa the project managers will be available to provide assistance and support 24/7.

A project staff member will meet you at the airport and will transfer you to the volunteer house, which is approximately 30-45 minutes drive from the airport. You will be transferred back to the airport at the end of your volunteer project. Please arrange your flights for the dates specified in your booking confirmation.

You will be quite active on this sports volunteer project, so we recommend that you are reasonably fit and healthy to participate. Please remember to be respectful and considerate if you wish to suggest any improvements, or new ideas that you feel would benefit the project. Local project staff may have different cultural expectations and values to you and yours are not necessarily right. Things may run to Africa time, which can be decidedly laid back, but learn to relax a little and you may find you enjoy the difference in pace. The project managers have significant experience at managing local project relationships, so ask for their advice if you are unsure about something and please listen to it.

Minimum age is 18. There is no maximum age, as long as you are fit and healthy enough to participate in project activities.

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