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TANZANIA

Tanzania, with an extension of 945.000 km2 that includes the Zanzibar Archipelago, is the largest country in South-oriental Africa. Tanzania shares borders with Kenya and Uganda to the north, with Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the west, with Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to the south, and with the Indian Ocean to the east.

Tanzania has a population of 40.454.000 people. A forth of the population lives in the cities and life expectancy is 52,5 years.

THE PROBLEM

Tanzania, in spite of being one of the most beautiful and wild countries in Africa, carries the burden of a hard reality:

Poverty and disease cripples the population, especially in rural areas and in the city outskirts, whereby slowing the development of the country.

The AIDS virus is nowadays one of the greatest threats for the Tanzanian population.
Children suffer the consequences the most. A great number of children have lost their parents, their love, their assistance and all access to an education. Moreover, the population and even their relatives reject these children for being orphans and for the burden they mean to those still alive. Most of these children end up in the streets, marking them for life in a psychological as well as a physical level.