Valuable Gift For The Children In Distress – VGFCD Project (Ongoing)
BRIEF
ABOUT THIS PROJECT:
The project has sought to fight illiteracy and
generational poverty by giving access to education, preventing school dropouts
and overcome challenges faced by poor, rural orphans children and the vulnerable children
of the marginalized, rural single teen and
young-mothers in their access to education and integral growth so as to enable them
to prepare for a promising future and fulfill their dreams and change their
communities.
Their family history, origin or social
backgrounds should not be the reason for them to be left behind because their
lives and future matters.
VGFCD – Project envisages supporting individually
more than 180 children in distress by 2030 from different areas of Mwanza
region in Tanzania.
PROJECT OVERALL OBJECTIVE:
To support the access to early childhood care, pre-primary and primary education and healthy
growth for the children in distress (poor, rural orphans children and the
children of marginalized, rural single teen and
young-mothers) in order to build their hope for a better future, help them
achieve their dreams and change the conditions of lives of their communities.
PROJECT
IMPLEMENTATION COVERAGE:
This
project focuses on helping the children in distress from rural areas of
Mwanza region in Tanzania but, starting with Magu district.
PROJECT SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
1. Initiate a early childhood daycare centre, pre-primary and primary school with boarding facilities to help targeted children in distress to have access to education, nutrition and care;
2. Enroll and support the children in distress to
join early childhood care centers, pre-primary and primary schools in order to help them access quality early childhood care, pre-primary and primary education;
3. Provide school supplies, uniforms, bags, food support,
transport and medical support to the children in distress to insure these
children access the education, attend regularly the school and participate
fully in school activities;
4. Offer/sponsor remedial classes after normal
studies schedule to boost their academic performance to help them understand deeply
what they are learning and succeed in their studies with higher grade and acquire
the opportunity to move with other educational levels as per Tanzania Education
system;
5. Provide psycho-social support, organize life
skills empowerment sessions and sports and games activities to help the children in
distress heal their pain, build their hopes and self-esteem and nurture their
talents to be another source of achieving their dreams.
PROJECT FUNDED BY:
This project is funded by individual
donations currently at the level of giving them school supplies and paying school fees.
We are open for collaboration/partnership
with more interested donors/funders on this project, kindly reach out to us in
case you are interested to know more about this project and getting involved to
make a difference with us in Tanzania.
The children beneficiaries of VGFCD identified at Nyanguge
VGFCD Project beneficiaries posing for a photo when they received jersey sets.