There are an estimated 1,300,000 orphans and 437,000 street children in Tanzania. As a result, legally registered orphanages and children’s homes are severely overcrowded and struggling to absorb the numbers. This has led to the proliferation of unregistered establishments where vulnerable children live in squalor and are sometimes subject to exploitation and abuse.
Introducing Shabaha Children’s Home
Kijana Kwanza is now reinventing the welfare model for orphaned and abandoned children aged 5-12 years. We believe that young children should grow up in a loving family. Where a child has been abandoned due to poverty, we will prioritise family reunification, by supporting the family unit to stay together or place the child in a foster family. Shabaha Children’s Home will operate as an emergency shelter, for up to 120 children at any given time, and only in the most challenging circumstances will children be kept in long-term care on-site.
Once placed in community care, families will continue to receive financial and in-kind support, scheduled and surprise home visits from social workers and children will attend weekly activities on-site at the children’s home.
OPENING SOON
The children’s home building is complete but we now need your help to furnish it.
For more information, download our brochure here.
Sponsor a room from £1,000 in memory of your loved one or buy a bunk bed here.
