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In the Western part of Tanzania a huge number of children have suffered different misfortunes. Western Tanzania is one of the regions that due to its geographical isolation and bordering warring neighbours (DR Congo and Burundi) have lagged behind in development. The opening of a railway connection in 1914 from the east and central Tanzania remained to be the only major outlet to this relatively landlocked region and ever since progress has been almost insignificant. Poverty, diseases and lawlessness give children no room to prepare for a better future and threaten their lives’ any hope of becoming useful members of their society. Some of the reasons contributing to this:

First, the impoverished communities in this area have no means to maintain their families especially meeting the needs of education, health and proper feeding. The state of poverty is alarming and most families cannot afford to take their children to schools or even buy proper clothing and nutritional foods.
 
Second, the underdeveloped farming methods have left families who depend solely on farming even further impoverished. The high demand of food and pollution of natural rivers, forests and on-going shortage of arable land has resulted in these families to harvest less in the same farm area leading to children malnutrition. With most families failing to help children to go school, there is hardly any hope of future improvement. The lack of farming education and resources management all contribute to both environment degradation and diseases as well.
 
AIDS pandemic has even enhanced the problem of street children, orphans and further robbed the communities of the production force. This has left children without assistance after losing both or one of the parents to the killer disease. It has created high dependency of most children on guardians and extended families who are also poor and cannot afford to pay for their education, nutrition and other basic needs. Most families have a high number of these children, whom they cannot properly serve, leaving them at the crossroad for their future. For the children, a combination of poverty, AIDS and a lack of structured families, leaves no room for development.
 
Children growing up in such environment can easily become vulnerable to both domestic and street violence and child labour. They are too much exposed to gender discrimination and fall easy preys to drugs and prostitution. At this stage, children lose foundation and control of their own destiny, depriving the nation of useful labour force. In doing so, they create a community subject to poverty and disease.
 
It is thus the vision of this foundation to try to intervene and disrupt this flow of events. We aim at providing necessary skills and education to these children so that they can help their communities rebuild.
 
Education is one powerful tool to emancipation. Education gives hope for the future and helps break the vicious circle of poverty, which has caught up a good number of people in Tanzania. By helping children go to school today, you help build a more secure future and a healthy society able to fight disease, poverty and hunger. It is an opportunity given to these young people to build a better life for themselves now and their families in the future.

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