CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF ARUSHA

"DEEPER EVANGELIZATION - IS OUR END"

• Identification of the Most Vulnerable Children in the Community.
• Identifying their immediate needs.
• Provision of Education support to the MVC from Primary to University level.
• Provision of nutrition support to whose guardians are completely unable to support these children with food.
• Provision of Vocational Training to the MVC who do not qualify for Secondary Education for one reason or the other.

• Gender: An equal opportunity for both boys and girls in provision of services.

• Linking the affected and infected to the service providers.
• Linking beneficiaries with child rights advocacy offices.

• We network and collaborate with other programs within the Archdiocese and without.
• We involve other stakeholders such as Parish Priest, Catechists, Local Leaders and other NGO’s.

• Improvements of School attendance.
• Secure Employment by the MVC after completion of different courses.
• 100 MVC have secured employment after they completed different courses.
• 30 MVC have been supported up to University level.
• 30 MVC are in different Training colleges such as Teaching, Finance Management, Nursing, Business Management, Community Development, Tour Guide, Journalist, Livestock etc.
• 70 MVC are still in Secondary Education O’ Level & A’ Level.
• 17 MVC are in Vocational Training Centers.

• The MVC in our Community are the result of the AIDS Pandemic.
• When given chance of informal and formal education these MVC can perform very well.
• By forming clubs these children have found a very conducive forum for grief release.
• Provision of quality Education to these children is the best way to help them manage their lives better.
• Sincere cooperation with other stakeholders gives way to success in attending these poor children in many ways.

• Lack of strong and prompt collaboration from other stakeholders in the community.
• Persistent of stigma and discrimination
• Extreme poverty.
• Low level of education on the part of some caretakers/ guardians of the MVC.
• Ever increasing number of orphans and child headed households compared to the available resources especially after the withdraw of our former donors – CRS, SCIAF, WFP & Trocaire.
• Food insecurity
• Traditional customs barriers such as heritance of widows and sharing of women.
• Gender imbalance which favor men against women.
• HIV & AIDS prevalence.
• Poor infrastructure especially outside the Municipality.
• The negative effects of globalizations.

• To build a School adjacent to the orphanage which can take care of these children for formal education from baby class to Primary School?
• To get a strong four wheel car to effect the activities of this program.
• To continue to mobilize and sensitize the community on the identification and caring of these children.