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BAOBAB CHILDREN'S HOME

Location
Present operations
Action plan
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LOCATION

The city of Arusha is widely known for being a point of reference for the safaris to parks and reserves in the north of the country. It is also where the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is located and its Clock Tower in the center’s roundabout is considered the center of Africa. However, it is also a city with a high number of orphans and street children, who survive in dreadful conditions.

Our children’s home Baobab Children’s Home is located in the outskirts of the city, in the district of Maksoro, 12 Km. from downtown Arusha.

PRESENT OPERATIONS OF THE CENTER


At the moment, we are in charge of 37 children and teenagers ages 3 through 17. Our organization provides the children with food, healthcare, clothing and education.

Some of the children are orphans, some others are missing one parents, and some others, even though they are not orphans, live with their families in extreme condition of poverty and therefore, the children are under our care as guardians.

The children’s home is partially finished and 22 children live in it. Although there is still much to be done so the rest of the children can move in. The children, who are not living at the center yet, live temporally relocated in relative’s homes or with an acquaintance to the family.

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ACTION PLAN

Our objective is to care for the children registered with the Baobab Children’s Home at all levels (nutrition, healthcare, education and emotional support).

If possible, we will relocate the children with able families, so they can receive the warmth of a home. In this case, we will do as much as we can to keep a strict follow-up of the children. For those whose relocation is not possible, we will offer our children’s home for them to live in and develop as people.

We will continue to pay special attention to those cases which situation requires a prompt intervention on our behalf, being able to offer them a Home and our assistance. For such aim, we need new sponsors. Only by finding new sponsors we will be able take in more children.

With the aim to help develop the area surrounding the Baobab Children´s Home, amigos de Tanzania is sponsoring the education of children from neighboring families with little economic resources.

THE NEW CENTER

Besides being a children’s home, the new center was built with the vision of becoming a meeting place and a point of reference for all those children warded by Amigos de Tanzania, regardless their residence.

Our objective is for the center to become self-sufficient in a near future, being able to run itself autonomously. Harvesting cereals and raising farm animals could contribute to achieve this goal, counting with employees and volunteers and their continuous assistance.

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