WHAT WE DO

The association Amigos de Tanzania is a NGO-D, which was founded with the wish to help those Tanzanian children, who are not necessarily orphans, but live suffering social and economic troubles. We extend our assistance to their families and other people with little or no financial resources through our projects.

Such assistance is channeled by cooperation for development, solidarity, and the defense of human rights, always respecting Tanzanian culture and laws. We believe that by doing so, people warded by our association will receive the necessary tools to fight the deep poverty they are drowning in at the moment, and one day, they will be able to live their lives independent and constructively in their own country.

The nature of our cooperation has the following parameters, aiming to heal the important deficiencies in the basic needs of any human being, through which be believe our vision can be materialized, basing all of them on the defense of the Universal Human Rights:

HEALTHCARE
Public healthcare in Tanzania is overpopulated, so many patients have access to few doctors and they have to pay for their own medication. In a country where deathly diseases such as malaria and typhoid fever are common, it is very important to have access to a hospital with laboratory facilities and qualified staff. Through our healthcare assistance not only the children warded by our association benefit, but also their families, lifting the heavy load of hospital bills from them and this way, preventing future sickness and reducing long periods of school absenteeism. This measure will contribute in the empowerment of the child’s health, school performance and the family nucleus.

EDUCATION
Amigos de Tanzania strongly believes that investing in the education of a child is crucial to fight poverty. In a country with little public social resources such as Tanzania, it is utmost important that all children have access to quality education, forming them to be productive, competitive and self-sufficient. Therefore, all children warded by our association study in not public schools using English as mandatory language.

SHELTER
Shelter is not only a right that we all have, but in the case of children, the lack of it is in fact, a reason for school success or failure and therefore, also personal. Our assistance allows them to live in a place where they can rest, relax and study in a proper environment, focusing on their school work. Moreover, they have access to self-dependency workshops and time to play, which they have right to as children they are. Most of these children have been living in overcrowded homes with little hygienic measures due to the lack of water and electricity, homes without the necessary space to rest and study.

NUTRITION
A balanced diet is the first step to a healthy life where we can develop properly. However, it is also the biggest challenge for many families with little or no financial resources, as they are unable to provide food for their children on a daily basis. Access to food for these families is therefore, an utmost necessity our association is working on covering.

EMOTIONAL ASSISTANCE
Poverty produces many other problems, such as alcoholism, prostitution, domestic and non-domestic violence and in too many instances, abandonment and murder. Children living with poor families tent to spend most of the day alone as grownups are away from the home trying to find work. In such conditions, it is impossible for a child to develop with good emotional health, so our economic assistance is always linked to an emotional one. Our association is actively seeking psychological help so these children can grow up happily and develop properly.