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Tanzania
Construction of a youth center for AIDS orphans
Project description :
Every year it is estimated that up to 160.000 Tanzanians die from HIV-related infections. According to the World Health Organization 6.5 per cent of Tanzanians between the ages of 15 and 49 are infected with the HIV virus. Thanks to successful education programs, average rates of new infection are currently declining in the country. However this is of little comfort to those who are left behind. In particular AIDS orphans, who have to look after members of their family and therefore interrupt their schooling, have few prospects for the future when their parents die.
In the town of Mbeya the situation is particularly dire, as it is a transit center, with all the associated problems. It is therefore not by chance that the self-help group Kihumbe was formed in this town as a local aid organization that carries out important education work, distributes clothes, food and contraceptives and helps find the remaining relatives of orphans.
During the day, some 150 orphans who live with relatives are to be cared for and provided with further education/training in a youth center that is currently under construction. When it is finished it will consist of two buildings offering space for classes and leisure activities. Knorr-Bremse Global Care is funding both the construction of the center and also its furnishings and equipment.
Place: Mbeya, in the south west of the country.
Status: start: September 2006. Opening celebrations of the youth center took place in April 2007. The project is completed.
Local coordination:
Local aid organization Kihumbe (abbreviation of: "Kikundi Cha Huduma Majumbani Mbeya" - in English: Mbeya Home Based Service Providers Group).
Project description :
Every year it is estimated that up to 160.000 Tanzanians die from HIV-related infections. According to the World Health Organization 6.5 per cent of Tanzanians between the ages of 15 and 49 are infected with the HIV virus. Thanks to successful education programs, average rates of new infection are currently declining in the country. However this is of little comfort to those who are left behind. In particular AIDS orphans, who have to look after members of their family and therefore interrupt their schooling, have few prospects for the future when their parents die.
In the town of Mbeya the situation is particularly dire, as it is a transit center, with all the associated problems. It is therefore not by chance that the self-help group Kihumbe was formed in this town as a local aid organization that carries out important education work, distributes clothes, food and contraceptives and helps find the remaining relatives of orphans.
During the day, some 150 orphans who live with relatives are to be cared for and provided with further education/training in a youth center that is currently under construction. When it is finished it will consist of two buildings offering space for classes and leisure activities. Knorr-Bremse Global Care is funding both the construction of the center and also its furnishings and equipment.
Place: Mbeya, in the south west of the country.
Status: start: September 2006. Opening celebrations of the youth center took place in April 2007. The project is completed.
Local coordination:
Local aid organization Kihumbe (abbreviation of: "Kikundi Cha Huduma Majumbani Mbeya" - in English: Mbeya Home Based Service Providers Group).
