NAME OF THE PLACEMENT Kilimanjaro Centre for Orphans (Kilicentre)
CONTACT PERSON: Michael Mpombo
BOX 3041 Moshi
MOBILE: 0754 201080
Alumni References: Shireen Tabrizi: evilmidget2007@yahoo.com
Carly Roberts: carly86@gmail.com
Location:
It is located seven kilometers from Moshi Town along KCMC Wildlife College highway. It is very close to Ushirika wa Neema Lutheran Centre. From this point the centre is located half a kilometer to the right. There is a good compound where vegetables can be locally grown.
Staffing:
It is owned and run by Michael Mpombo and Godfrey Mrema, two young Tanzanian men who share a love for the children and a desire to help. In addition, there are mamas (one of whom is a nurse) who oversee the physical needs of the children such as cleaning, feeding and occasional bathing.
John is a local volunteer in his 20s who helps with the physical labor and running errands. Ruhanga is a local drama teacher who sometimes volunteers but teaching songs and games to the kids but nowadays he had been going less often as more kids are in school. On normal days Godfrey is around in the mornings. Godfrey needs a bit of direction. Unless specifically instructed about something to do he tends to hang around and watch you work instead of initiating a project himself. Michael stops by almost everyday on his motorcycle and he has another job but he works very hard on setting up the finances n businesses of the orphanage. While Godfrey speaks not very good English, Michael is fairly fluent.
Description:
Presently Kilicentre houses 28 kids, aged 2-13. It is not registered but they have applied and are waiting for approval. The orphanage has now opened the bank account and so beneficiaries can now give money for various needs.
The orphanage does not have electricity because they cannot afford to pay for it. They use kerosene lamps at night for light but usually they don’t have kerosene because they also do not have the funds.
There is no furniture except a couch. They need a table to eat as well as chairs. They also really need a bookshelf for school supplies.
Currently there are elder kids who are not going to school and so they want to start English and life skills learning centre for the older kids of the orphanage and the nearby community
Aims
The aims are as follows:
• Protection of children from vulnerable environment
• Provision of food, clothes and shelter to the less privileged children.
• Provide education. (to primary & secondary schools and non-formal education).
• Provide vocational training for self reliance.
• Counseling (Individual, group, family and the community)
• Provide spiritual counseling through prayers, singing and teachings.
• Arts and crafts ( Drama, sports, games and talents identification)
The Kids
The kids eat 3 meals a day
- porridge for breakfast
- Rice and beans for lunch
- Ugali and beans for dinner
Volunteers Activities
• Update the Website
• Fund raising – writing proposals and finding sources of income
• Set up schedule for younger and elder kids who don’t go to school
• Group games and songs
• Basic wound care
• Arts, crafts, (there is hemp/beads, coloring books etc in supply room)
• Washing kids, helping mamas cook/clean/fetch water
• keep the kids busy and play with them, providing interpersonal skills and stimulation
Projects Done By CCS Volunteers
• Paint recreational room, boys bedroom and the back entry way
• Built swings for recreation
• Provide chickens so the kids can get eggs
• Built chicken coop
• Provide rabbits for sale and eat so kids can get meat, currently the rabbit has given birth to 8 bunnies
• Start a garden for vegetables
Future Projects Suggested By Volunteers
1. Paint office, floor (they sell floor paint), volunteers also suggested to buy roller brushes and paint at least 2 coats
2. Assemble first aid box and first aid manual
3. Helping Michael with website (he can give you the access info) and pamphlets
4. Fund raising – writing proposals and finding sources of income
5. Set up schedule for younger and elder kids who don’t go to school
6. Design Group games and songs
7. Teach the Mamas Basic wound care
8. Arts, crafts, (there is hemp/beads, coloring books etc in supply room)
9. Finding a better solution for food crisis
10. keep the kids busy and play with them, providing interpersonal skills and stimulation
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Tuleeni Orphanage
NAME OF THE PLACEMENT: TULEENI ORPHANAGE CENTER.(TOC)
CONTACT PERSON: MAMA FARAJI
MOBILE PHONE: +255 754 627250
Alumni references: Meghan Jones - meghanjones27@yahoo.co.uk
LOCATION:
TULEENI is a Community Based Organization which serves as an Orphanage center. It is situated in Moshi Municipality, Rau Ward, Kariwa Chini Sub location. It is one kilometer to the west of CCS Rau Home base.
TULEENI is operating on permit basis. Permanent Registration is in process
It caters for the children between 3 -12 years age. It has twenty children, majority being the girls and out of which eighteen go to different school in different classes. If the schools are opened the placement is active in the afternoons because children go to school in the morning. 7: 30 – 3:30 pm.
AIMS:
• Protect the children from vulnerable Environment
• Provide food shelter and clothes to the less privileged children.
• Provide Education to the children.
• Provide medical support to the sick children
STAFFING:
The center is comprised a total of four staff members.
The Founder member and three staffs (male and female) who are local volunteers and one night guard.
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES:
• Support staff by taking the Sick children including the HIV / AIDS positive children the Hospital / Medical clinic.
• Play with the children.
• Help to bathe children.
• Help and Cook food for the children
• Plan and Organize the extra activities for the children
• Teach none formal education to children (Arts and Crafts songs, games etc.)
• Do counseling to individual/group kids
• Teach the Orphanage staff on local fund raising strategies
• Plan and create brochure and website for the orphanage
CONTACT PERSON: MAMA FARAJI
MOBILE PHONE: +255 754 627250
Alumni references: Meghan Jones - meghanjones27@yahoo.co.uk
LOCATION:
TULEENI is a Community Based Organization which serves as an Orphanage center. It is situated in Moshi Municipality, Rau Ward, Kariwa Chini Sub location. It is one kilometer to the west of CCS Rau Home base.
TULEENI is operating on permit basis. Permanent Registration is in process
It caters for the children between 3 -12 years age. It has twenty children, majority being the girls and out of which eighteen go to different school in different classes. If the schools are opened the placement is active in the afternoons because children go to school in the morning. 7: 30 – 3:30 pm.
AIMS:
• Protect the children from vulnerable Environment
• Provide food shelter and clothes to the less privileged children.
• Provide Education to the children.
• Provide medical support to the sick children
STAFFING:
The center is comprised a total of four staff members.
The Founder member and three staffs (male and female) who are local volunteers and one night guard.
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES:
• Support staff by taking the Sick children including the HIV / AIDS positive children the Hospital / Medical clinic.
• Play with the children.
• Help to bathe children.
• Help and Cook food for the children
• Plan and Organize the extra activities for the children
• Teach none formal education to children (Arts and Crafts songs, games etc.)
• Do counseling to individual/group kids
• Teach the Orphanage staff on local fund raising strategies
• Plan and create brochure and website for the orphanage
Matumaini Orphanage
Matumaini (means HOPE) Child Care (MCC)
It is a centre for orphans, semi orphans and other children living in hardship conditions due to high level of poverty of their parents and other family members. MCC started towards the end of October 2006.
Contact Person: Cletus R. Nyaki
TEL. + 255 755890765
Location: The Matumaini Child Care is located 3 kilometers from Moshi Town along Uru Road highway. It is in Uru West.It is also one kilometer north of CCS Rau premises.
The house hasn’t had running water or electricity. Clean and safe tap water can be obtained from the neighborhood. The building is furnished with a few beds, bed sheets, ten chairs, and one set of couches. It has an area for gardening and a small play ground.
Staffing:
The centre is run by Cletus Nyaki who is among the founder members. He is also in charge of the finances, budgeting and day to – day activities. Sotery is the warden of the house. Lucy Msoka supports Sotery at Night. There are a few mamas who cook for the children in rotation because everything depends entirely on volunteerism. These mamas are from the community. They sometimes donate some food for the children.
Matumaini Child Care caters for children ages 5-13 years old. Currently there are 17 children, both boys and girls. Most of the children are of single mothers and some are orphans. Some children are in a nursery school while the majority is in different class levels in the primary schools around.
Aims:
Protection of children from a vulnerable environment
Provision of food, clothes and shelter
Provide non-formal education
Volunteer Activities
Provide entertainment for the children through games, songs, and crafts
Non-formal education (reading and writing)
Teaching basic subjects (English, arithmetic)
Simple Healthcare
Share with the administrative team on issues pertaining to local fundraising, conducting out reach programs, organizing home visits counseling the children, and work on a website.
Projects Done by CCS Volunteers
• Paint the Common Room
• Build the Chicken Coupe
• Start a Vegetable garden
It is a centre for orphans, semi orphans and other children living in hardship conditions due to high level of poverty of their parents and other family members. MCC started towards the end of October 2006.
Contact Person: Cletus R. Nyaki
TEL. + 255 755890765
Location: The Matumaini Child Care is located 3 kilometers from Moshi Town along Uru Road highway. It is in Uru West.It is also one kilometer north of CCS Rau premises.
The house hasn’t had running water or electricity. Clean and safe tap water can be obtained from the neighborhood. The building is furnished with a few beds, bed sheets, ten chairs, and one set of couches. It has an area for gardening and a small play ground.
Staffing:
The centre is run by Cletus Nyaki who is among the founder members. He is also in charge of the finances, budgeting and day to – day activities. Sotery is the warden of the house. Lucy Msoka supports Sotery at Night. There are a few mamas who cook for the children in rotation because everything depends entirely on volunteerism. These mamas are from the community. They sometimes donate some food for the children.
Matumaini Child Care caters for children ages 5-13 years old. Currently there are 17 children, both boys and girls. Most of the children are of single mothers and some are orphans. Some children are in a nursery school while the majority is in different class levels in the primary schools around.
Aims:
Protection of children from a vulnerable environment
Provision of food, clothes and shelter
Provide non-formal education
Volunteer Activities
Provide entertainment for the children through games, songs, and crafts
Non-formal education (reading and writing)
Teaching basic subjects (English, arithmetic)
Simple Healthcare
Share with the administrative team on issues pertaining to local fundraising, conducting out reach programs, organizing home visits counseling the children, and work on a website.
Projects Done by CCS Volunteers
• Paint the Common Room
• Build the Chicken Coupe
• Start a Vegetable garden
Upendo Orphanage
Upendo Children Home
Shante Town,
P.O. Box 852, Moshi
Heads: Sr. Immaculata
Sr. Anneritha
Telephone: 027 2752686, 027 2751785
Alumni References: Mary Adkins: marrunsslow@aol.com
Kelly Lennon: kellylennon@gmail.com
Jon Brigham: jbrigham@fandm.edu
General Information about the Partner Organization
Upendo Children Home is a private Orphan Center by the initiative of the Precious Blood Sisters of Tanzania. They started in Tanga in 1952 and moved to Moshi in the early 1960’s. Their mission is to save the lives of babies and children who have no caregivers, most of which have lost their parents due to HIV/AIDS. At times, the mothers of the children have died, and the father or other relatives are unable to care for the children. Many times, after the child’s mother dies, the father comes to leave the child at the orphanage and they are never seen again.
Orphans range from a few weeks to 24 years of age. The idea is that the children will stay until age 5, but oftentimes, there is no place for older children to go, and they stay at the orphanage. There are very few orphanages in Tanzania.
There are two institutions at the center, run by the Sisters: a Nursery Nursing training School and Kindergarten Nursery School. Currently there are about 52 orphan children in both institutions, aged 2-13.
The center has an acute shortage of volunteers to assist in the day to day running of the center. They have no source of funding except from Sisters and from any other voluntary donors that are sympathetic to the plight of children at the center. There are other foreign volunteers who come to assist at the center in addition to CCS volunteers.
Duties
Activities include: Basic care of the children especially the toddlers. For older children teaching them basic literacy, writing and reading and providing them with physical exercises and games. For those in the training school, teaching them English language and techniques for nursery teaching.
Useful supplies/Desirable attributes
Supplies:
• Supplies for games that promote interaction
• Toys that can improve mobility and provide activities to the toddlers (e.g. playdough, lego, etc)
• Picture materials/books that promote basic literacy
• Musical activities, tapes, songs like nursery rhymes that are easily learned by children.
• Games that can be played with songs and simple movements for group activities.
• Sports equipment to be used by children especially those in the upper age
• Depending on your subject area, book resources would be deemed useful as reference material
• Readily designed group activities with facilitator instructions, ready for review and implementation
Attributes
• Love of children and ability to care for the young ones
• Experience in nursery activities and games
• Patience with children and flexibility
• Academic orientation and love of your subject
• Teaching experience and flair for teaching, for example, learning numbers and the alphabet
• Creativity in the design of learning activities with very little supplies and equipments
• Patience with children and slow learners
• Willingness to learn ways to communicate in Swahili and work within a language barrier situation.
Other Notes
It is important that the volunteers at Upendo familiarize themselves with basic child care, and that they engage with all of the children, instead of getting attached to only one child. You will need to be self-motivated and to ask the mamas and nurses for guidance if you are unsure about something.
The work that you will do is very rewarding, but also quite tiring. Please make sure that you are eating well before you come to work and that you are sleeping enough. The children will demand a lot of your attention.
You may see corporal punishment given to the children. This may be very difficult, but please do not intervene. Please communicate your feedback to our CCS staff, or expressing your concern in a polite and caring way to the sisters at Upendo.
You may also be expected to help the young nurses with their English language skills.
It is best for you to not wear any jewelry to your work because the children will put on your necklace or earrings. There is also potential for jewelry to be broken or pulled at during play.
It is also good for you to learn as much conversational Swahili as possible – specifically vocabulary words specific to children and child care.
The children need a lot of love and they become very attached very quickly, and some of them will not allow you to stop hugging them or to put them down if you are carrying them.
Bring a water bottle and make sure that you take enough drinking water from the home-base for you to drink while you are there.
Also bring hand sanitizer for your hands and be prepared to get dirty.
Shante Town,
P.O. Box 852, Moshi
Heads: Sr. Immaculata
Sr. Anneritha
Telephone: 027 2752686, 027 2751785
Alumni References: Mary Adkins: marrunsslow@aol.com
Kelly Lennon: kellylennon@gmail.com
Jon Brigham: jbrigham@fandm.edu
General Information about the Partner Organization
Upendo Children Home is a private Orphan Center by the initiative of the Precious Blood Sisters of Tanzania. They started in Tanga in 1952 and moved to Moshi in the early 1960’s. Their mission is to save the lives of babies and children who have no caregivers, most of which have lost their parents due to HIV/AIDS. At times, the mothers of the children have died, and the father or other relatives are unable to care for the children. Many times, after the child’s mother dies, the father comes to leave the child at the orphanage and they are never seen again.
Orphans range from a few weeks to 24 years of age. The idea is that the children will stay until age 5, but oftentimes, there is no place for older children to go, and they stay at the orphanage. There are very few orphanages in Tanzania.
There are two institutions at the center, run by the Sisters: a Nursery Nursing training School and Kindergarten Nursery School. Currently there are about 52 orphan children in both institutions, aged 2-13.
The center has an acute shortage of volunteers to assist in the day to day running of the center. They have no source of funding except from Sisters and from any other voluntary donors that are sympathetic to the plight of children at the center. There are other foreign volunteers who come to assist at the center in addition to CCS volunteers.
Duties
Activities include: Basic care of the children especially the toddlers. For older children teaching them basic literacy, writing and reading and providing them with physical exercises and games. For those in the training school, teaching them English language and techniques for nursery teaching.
Useful supplies/Desirable attributes
Supplies:
• Supplies for games that promote interaction
• Toys that can improve mobility and provide activities to the toddlers (e.g. playdough, lego, etc)
• Picture materials/books that promote basic literacy
• Musical activities, tapes, songs like nursery rhymes that are easily learned by children.
• Games that can be played with songs and simple movements for group activities.
• Sports equipment to be used by children especially those in the upper age
• Depending on your subject area, book resources would be deemed useful as reference material
• Readily designed group activities with facilitator instructions, ready for review and implementation
Attributes
• Love of children and ability to care for the young ones
• Experience in nursery activities and games
• Patience with children and flexibility
• Academic orientation and love of your subject
• Teaching experience and flair for teaching, for example, learning numbers and the alphabet
• Creativity in the design of learning activities with very little supplies and equipments
• Patience with children and slow learners
• Willingness to learn ways to communicate in Swahili and work within a language barrier situation.
Other Notes
It is important that the volunteers at Upendo familiarize themselves with basic child care, and that they engage with all of the children, instead of getting attached to only one child. You will need to be self-motivated and to ask the mamas and nurses for guidance if you are unsure about something.
The work that you will do is very rewarding, but also quite tiring. Please make sure that you are eating well before you come to work and that you are sleeping enough. The children will demand a lot of your attention.
You may see corporal punishment given to the children. This may be very difficult, but please do not intervene. Please communicate your feedback to our CCS staff, or expressing your concern in a polite and caring way to the sisters at Upendo.
You may also be expected to help the young nurses with their English language skills.
It is best for you to not wear any jewelry to your work because the children will put on your necklace or earrings. There is also potential for jewelry to be broken or pulled at during play.
It is also good for you to learn as much conversational Swahili as possible – specifically vocabulary words specific to children and child care.
The children need a lot of love and they become very attached very quickly, and some of them will not allow you to stop hugging them or to put them down if you are carrying them.
Bring a water bottle and make sure that you take enough drinking water from the home-base for you to drink while you are there.
Also bring hand sanitizer for your hands and be prepared to get dirty.
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