The Tanzanian Children's Fund provides a warm, loving, nurturing community for the children of Tanzania
[b]Mission[/b]
[font=Arial, sans-serif]Located in the Karatu region of Northern Tanzania, the Tanzanian Children’s Fund is focused on improving the lives of children in poverty. Together with the Rift Valley Children’s Village, which was founded in 2003 to create a nurturing home for Tanzania’s orphaned children, the TCF works with the community to change the futures of its young generation. These two organizations do more than simply provide food, clothing, and shelter for the Tanzanian children; they also provide care and education to them.[/font]
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"Life at the Children's Village is structured yet relaxed - hours spent tutoring are intermixed with hours spent playing soccer and finger painting. Above all else, the Children's Village is a place where every child receives the individual attention and unconditional love that allows them to thrive.
[b]Program:[/b]
The Tanzanian Children’s Fund reaches these goals through several different methods, including partnership with several programs. The Kids Living with Relatives Program provides food, clothing, and opportunity to children living with their relatives, and the Gyetighi Primary School Partnership and Oldeani Secondary School Partnership are aimed at improving education for children through local schools and local government. the Medical Care Program gives medical care and attention to children and families in the region, and the Microfinance Program helps to foster economic development by incentivizing small businesses growth through loans to break the poverty cycle in surrounding communities.
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After establishing three Savings and Credit Cooperatives, the Microfinance Program has helped support nearly 700 children through giving independent entrepreneurs the opportunity to break the cycle of poverty.
[b]Partners[/b]
The Tanzanian Children’s Fund partnered with the District government to help manage Gyetighi Primary School in an effort to improve educational outcomes in 2007. Before this, the school had a 65:1 student-teacher ratio and a graduation rate of 30%. Within 3 years, aided by doubling the faculty, renovating classrooms, and providing meals and medical care to students and teachers, the graduation rate skyrocketed to 96%. In 2012, it hit 100%. Because of this amazing transformation, they are now partnering with the Oldeani Secondary School and look forward to similar results!
[b]New Community Center[/b]
This addition to the TCF community will house multiple programs and serve as a community meeting place. This community center will provide a place for mothers to learn about the importance of prenatal care, which will provide a foundation for keeping children healthy so they can be educated in the future. It will also provide family planning classes to ensure that the children that are being born will have a family that is able to care for them. This center will also equip TCF’s Microfinance clients with training as well as teaching them new trades and techniques.