Vision Mkombozi’s vision is a world where all children are prioritised and actively engaged to become productive adults in a just and democratic society.
Mission Mkombozi’s mission is to empower Tanzania’s children to develop holistically by partnering with local communities and government to create a more caring and cohesive society that prioritises children.
Written by: Joyce Kabue & Erin Dunne Edited by: Katie Bunten-Wren Designed by: Erin Dunne © 2012 Mkombozi
Impact by Numbers... 1,246
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children and youth were supported through direct services provided by Mkombozi
children and youth supported in formal mainstream education
12,200
721
children and youth contacted on the streets through various Mkombozi street-based interventions
community members attended drama performances focused on issues of child protection, advocating for children’s rights and reducing stigma of street-involved children
1,746
675
children and youth were given direct psychosocial support through one-on-one meetings and group support sessions
children and youth were provided health services
2,996
one-on-one meetings, held between Mkombozi social workers and children in our direct services
367
children and youth attended non-formal education classes prepared by Mkombozi teachers on the streets
377 child protection actors and duty bearers who received training on child protection and children’s rights to enable them to improve and implement strong child protection systems such as Child Protection Committees in target wards
13,900 children learned about their rights through child rights trainings in schools
A Letter of Welcome Mkombozi had a successful and exciting year in 2012, the second year of our 2011-2015 Strategic Plan. We completed our transition from long-term residential care to a more family-based short-term residential care model and have already begun seeing positive results. Through our community engagement department, we continued preventing children from migrating to the streets by working with all stakeholders to keep children protected and cared for. Mkombozi continued to see great successes in our work and decided that in order to better communicate the successes of our work, we need to articulate a theory of change that would help us describe why we do the work we do. We started this process in late 2012 and developed a strong theory of change and accompanying logic model that streamlines, accentuates and emphasises the importance of our work. This model doesn’t change the work we are doing but it will enable us to focus on our core values, guide discussions with new donors and assist in preparations for the next strategic plan. Our work continues to be driven by the belief that Tanzanian children will only grow in an environment where they are loved, cared for and involved in their own personal development. We see this as the key to keeping children off the streets. Throughout 2012, significant milestones were made towards the achievement of our mission.
Such milestones included; implementing our 5th biennial census of street-involved children, successful transition from a residential centre to a transition centre, more formalized and supportive relationships built with the local government, and observed reductions in child abuse in many of our target communities. Mkombozi credits these achievements to the strong partnerships and collaboration with donors, local government authorities, parents, other relevant stakeholders and children themselves. Great success comes with great challenges. Mkombozi faced a number of challenges in 2012, including budget constraints and our continued dependence on rented office premises. However, we have now confirmed plans to build our own premises including a transition home customized to our care model. We will launch a formal fundraising campaign in 2013 for this exciting development towards our sustainability as an organization. 2012 was a great year and we extend our sincerest gratitude to all our donors, partners, staff, volunteers, friends of Mkombozi UK and US and all stakeholders who supported us throughout the year. And we congratulate the children of Mkombozi because without their resilience, commitment and innate ability to thrive we would not be able to do our work. We are looking forward to continued success in 2013.
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in this report... - 2012 in Numbers - Theory of Change.......5 - Empowering Children..7 - Enabling Communities..9 - Engaging Families......11 - Learning and Innovation..12 - Building Project...15 - Financial Report...16 - A Special Thanks...17
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Mkombozi Theory of Change Tanzanian children will only grow in communities where they are safe, cared for, valued and engaged in their own development if.....
Government puts in place systems that stop perpetuating cycles of abuse
Everybody knows what a child needs to develop - their best interests
We all understand the consequences that a child faces when they run from home
Street involved children are supported to thrive (We have a track record and moral responsibility)
Children’s innate potential is not dangerously compromised on the streets
Mkombozi works to ensure we focus on all pieces of the circle. Change can only be made if we work together to facilitate growth in all aspects of a child’s life.
Everybody works together... children are everyone’s business
Family fragmentation and dysfunction is halted
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TEAM MKOMBOZI
Empowering Children With every child that walks through our doors, we see the future. With each moment these children spend at Mkombozi we ensure we are giving them the tools they need to see and develop successful futures. Our services have grown over the years to include engaging with families and enabling communities to do more – but the core and most central part of our work continues to be empowering the children of the Moshi and Arusha regions. Mkombozi has continued to excel in providing direct services to children, greatly exceeding almost all of our annual targets.
A Renaissance for our Transition Home Over 2011 and 2012 – the Mkombozi residential centre transformed into what is now our transition home. The transition home has continued to thrive under our new restructuring, although we have had to adjust to some new realities and challenges. Mkombozi changed our care philosophy in 2011 and it has brought us great success and progress in 2012. Starting in 2011 – instead of housing the children in our residential home over the course of their childhood, we decided to focus more on getting street-involved children back into their families and communities through reunification and foster care. Our philosophy lies in the truth that children do better when they are in a family setting. Before the change, many of our children were staying with us for 5-8 years, but now the transition home only allows children to stay for up to 1 year, unless in extenuating circumstances. Our social workers start working with the families instantly when a new child comes to us from the streets. It is important to understand the needs of the child, but also the situation and needs of the family as a whole.
Social workers compare stories from the children themselves with stories from parents, schoolteachers and other elders in the community. Once a full assessment has been done by a social worker, an agreement is made with the child and the reunification process starts. Typically children are reunified with their families 6-8 months after entering the transition home. Once the child is reunified with their family, our social workers are dedicated to keeping regular communication with the families and children – as well as paying all school fees to ensure the children are staying in school. Since our new process of reunification has started, we have noticed that only 8 out of 50 children will drop out of school after being reunified with their family. We have also seen the success rate of reunifications jump from around 45% to 65-70% one year after reunification. Mkombozi believes that the best place for a child is in a home setting with a family. We continue to aim our interventions at empowering families to take responsibility for their children as we feel that the institutionalization of children is taking this responsibility away from parents and communities at large. Therefore, Mkombozi continues to dedicate much of its work to reunifying children with their families or foster care families when reunification is not an option. In partnership with reunification and fostering, Mkombozi utilizes interventions aimed at empowering families to take increased responsibility for their children such as intensive family therapy, economic empowerment, and training in parenting skills.
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Creating Brighter Futures through Higher Education A wise man once said, “Knowledge is power. Information is liberation. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family”. That wise man was former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Our goal at Mkombozi is to give the children of Tanzania a fighting chance at an education that will both empower and liberate them – but also help them to bring progress to our communities and country. Education is a basic human right that holds immense power to transform communities in a sustainable way. The future of Tanzania will soon be in the hands of the children we serve today and the level of education presented to them will substantially affect the foundations of Tanzania. In 2012 we saw inspiring stories of Mkombozi children reaching further and looking toward higher education as a gateway to a better life. Full of gumption, determination and optimism these boys will not stop until they enter University. John Augustino may not have mentioned University if you asked him about his future when he was 10 years old – but these days he can’t imagine a future where he doesn’t attend. After 9 years at the Mkombozi residential home, John now has a brighter future to look forward to.
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John recently finished form 6 and is awaiting his results. After performing well and gaining division 1 on his form 4 test – there are high hopes that John will perform well on his form 6 exams as well. John hopes to attend University and study Medicine. John is only one example of street-involved children realizing University could be a part of their futures. Similar to John, Mkombozi alumni Charles Godfrey is seizing his future as well. Charles stayed at Mkombozi for 7 years and now lives with his mother. His mother receives economic empowerment support from Mkombozi, which allows her to help provide housing for her son next door to her house. Charles is currently in form 6 after passing both form 4 and form 5 with flying colors. He is a natural born leader who was elected to the position of Head Prefect just six months into his form 5 year. Charles plans to study law or social work when he attends University. He wants to find ways to help more street-involved children take control of their future. Children’s Programmes Coordinator, Upendo, says that Mkombozi gave both boys the motivation and structure they needed to better their lives through education. Mkombozi helped both Charles and John transfer to boarding schools and has supported them through the years to ensure they are able to seize their dreams of higher education.
Enabling Communities
Children on the streets belong to you and me It is our collective responsibility as the community to protect, care for and prioritize children. As Mkombozi has shifted its strategic focus since 2011, Mkombozi integrated its community engagement and children’s programme interventions to ensure they work coherently for high impact and sustainable solutions. More emphasis was made on the importance of engaging the community in protecting and caring for both children and youth in our project areas and beyond. This created increased community participation in the process of designing and implementing community interventions. Mkombozi expanded its community engagement interventions which now include: creating local child protection mechanisms, awareness raising through our campaign against child abuse, child participation support, mentoring programmes, teacher capacity building, and parenting skills training, as well as advocacy at national levels.
Child Participation As a child-centred organisation Mkombozi prioritises giving children opportunities to participate in decision-making about their lives and communities. Giving children the skills and forums to use their voice to effect change in their lives and communities builds their confidence to stand up for their own rights as well as the rights of others. In efforts to promote these activities, Mkombozi works to support child participation mechanisms both at our own transition home and in the communities where we work.
The Children’s Committee at the transition home meets every two weeks and has direct influence in such decision-making as their chore schedule, food menu and discipline measures. In the three districts where we work, Mkombozi has been working to support existing district-level Children’s Committees (Baraza la Watoto) while also reinvigorating committees which have been out of practice or poorly implemented. These committees are mandated by the Government and therefore have direct channels to District Counsils in order for their voices to be heard by government decision-makers. Mkombozi in partnership with AJISO, the community police, the community development department and the social welfare department conducted a training on child protection with the aim of introducing and establishing ward-level Child Protection Committees (CPCs). CPCs focus on the rights of children, child abuse and identification of the issues affecting children as well as an overview of the Law of the Child Act. This followed a growing need to raise awareness on issues of child protection. These CPCs have handled a rising number of child abuse cases reported to them by community members. Mkombozi knows that child abuse incidents are widely underreported and therefore we consider it a great success for many of these CPCs to be handling more and more cases of child abuse. This means that communities are beginning to understand the negative effects of child abuse and stand up for children’s rights by reporting cases of abuse.
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However the committees have also been faced with a number of challenges such as inadequate funding and resources. Moving forward, Mkombozi intends to direct more resources towards these initiatives as well as seeking more partnerships and collaborations to continue engaging the community in prioritizing and protecting children.
We are currently expanding this programme to give more students the opportunity to voice their concerns about children’s rights abuses in their schools.
Our campaign against child abuse, entitled Penye nia pana njia: acha ukatili kwa watoto sasa! (Where there is a will there is a way: stop child abuse now!), has been growing to reach even more community members Lending an ear to the voice of the children Mkombozi has continued to engage the community through the “Child Help- with awareness raising programmes about children’s rights, child abuse line Initiative”, a model adopted from Child Helpline International (CHI). This and family planning. The campaign was kick started through radio prowas piloted through projects which established happy and sad boxes in schools grammes, drama performances and publications. Thematic dramas are where children can express their problems and concerns. From these boxes, 260 performed in communities by a professional drama troupe started by happy cases and 129 abuse cases were identified. The sad cases included issues former Mkombozi mentors from our Big Brother/Big Sister Programme. such as physical and sexual abuse and neglect. This exercise further emphasized These dramas are also offered as opportunities to introduce members of local Child Protection Committees to community members. For our radio our research findings over the last several years, which have showed children programmes we also collaborate with numerous stakeholders who provide facing increasing levels of violence and abuse in their daily lives. their expertise on different children’s issues to educate community memWe will continue to expand this project to other schools and more children will bers. Some examples of such stakeholders include doctors, teachers, spiritual leaders, economists, social workers, psychologists, parents and children. be encouraged to use the happy/sad boxes while teachers, parents and the community will be encouraged to guide children to identify and report cases of These campaigns are aimed at creating an informed community that abuse to the relevant authorities. takes preventive action to reduce child abuse cases in 13 wards. Though the Additionally, Mkombozi established a children’s rights club initiative has been limited by high costs compared to the available budget, in one of our target schools in an effort to provide children Mkombozi is determined to continue advocating and campaigning for the with a platform to know and act on their rights and have rights of children. This will be done through continued partnerships and a forum to express their views openly as well as guide each collaborations.
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Engaging Families The best place for a child to grow is at home with family. Mkombozi believes that the best place for a child to grow is in a family. This ideology has continued to be our guiding principle in engaging families to ensure we are protecting and caring for street involved children and those at risk of migrating to the streets. Based on research by Mkombozi and other stakeholders, it is evident that the majority of children migrate to the streets due to a combination of violence in their households, neglect and extreme poverty. Mkombozi thus understands that families must be empowered and engaged to achieve holistic and sustainable solutions to these challenges. To achieve success in engaging families, Mkombozi uses tools such as; Family therapy (Therapeutic Family Intervention), skillful parenting training, and economic empowerment training to give families the skills and tools to care for their children. Our work with families ensures an easier reunification process between the children and their families. Mkombozi is confident we are sending children back to homes where they will be loved, cared for and protected.
Therapeutic Family Intervention (TFI) Throughout 2012, Mkombozi continued to strengthen both our preventive and restorative approaches to working with families. Therapeutic Family Intervention (TFI) is an intensive restorative approach used to treat extreme family dysfunction including deep-rooted issues resulting in cycles of violence.
This has been made possible through a strong partnership with Juconi, an organization from Mexico that has been training and supporting our social workers in implementing the programme. This method takes methodologies such as genograms, life mapping and the emotional thermometer; which are used to measure emotions, feelings and family trends. The process tries to identify why children run from home and what triggers their actions. These answers are then used to help families realize that solutions lie within the family and the solutions can be implemented easily. We saw 90% success from this approach in 2012. The majority of children reunified with their families through TFI are still at home and showing positive progress. The new approach is challenging, expensive, and both time and resource demanding. It requires a lot of follow-ups and patience, thus slowing the impact. According to Upendo Ramadhani, the Children’s Programmes Coordinator, Mkombozi will continue to strengthen the initiative and expand its reach to support more families with challenging problems. The social workers will also be equipped with the relevant skills and capacity through trainings and coaching from Juconi - Mexico. This will enhance the effectiveness of the initiative thus ensuring more success in coming years.
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Learning & Innovation
Gaging Children’s Knowledge of their Rights Baseline study: Children’s knowledge of their rights and feelings of protection: A knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) study in Kilimanjaro and Arusha Regions Mkombozi has always used research as an experimental tool to shape and inform our interventions as well as to provide information for our advocacy initiatives. Currently the organization is making a large effort to build knowledge of children’s rights in target communities and provide communities with education to fight child abuse. Therefore, it was important that we have a clear understanding of the extent of knowledge children have concerning their rights and whether they feel protected from violence in their communities. Thus, from March to May 2012, Mkombozi carried out a baseline survey concerning child rights and feelings of protection. The goal of the research included gaining insight into the attitudes that children, both enrolled in school and on the streets, have regarding child protection services in their communities.
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The results shed light on the formal and non-formal child protection networks and systems that children are currently accessing in these communities. Overall the research provided valuable information, which will be used to inform Mkombozi’s work with target communities towards increasing child rights education and improving child protection issues.
In total, 745 children were surveyed from Mkombozi’s 13 geographical target wards in Moshi Urban, Moshi Rural, and Arusha Municipality. We surveyed 603 children who were enrolled in ten different schools and 142 out-of-school children were targeted in the community. Children between the ages of five and 18 were included in the study. Once all 745 children completed filling out the survey, six focus group discussions were completed These discussions targeted different populations, including, teachers, community members, children, police officers, and social welfare officers. It was clear that children have a solid understanding of what their rights should be regardless of whether or not they are given them. Over twothirds of children in the study reported that they have heard of children’s rights. These results are very positive, providing evidence that the majority of children have at least a basic understanding of how they should be treated. The research found that 44% of the children enrolled at Mkombozi target schools reported learning about child rights in school. Additionally, over half of the participants were able to provide a comprehensive definition of child rights and 95% of children strongly agree or agree that children should be given their rights. The top five rights mentioned in all three districts were the right to education, clothing, shelter, food, and protection.
Learning & Innovation
The baseline found that two-thirds of children believe that parents or adults have the ability to take away child rights and half of children reported that parents are the ones who decide what rights children should have. It is clear that children feel very strongly that their parent’s actions greatly affect their rights. Now that Mkombozi has overwhelming evidence that this is true it is even more important to continue educating parents and community members about children’s rights. Some of the findings from the research are both informative and at times startling, highlighting the important need for Mkombozi’s community engagement work and continued dedication to protecting children. Participants were asked if they think that children in their communities feel protected from violence. The results from this question are very upsetting, 82% of participants answered that children never feel protected from violence in their community. 56% of the children also said that not feeling protected from violence is a very big problem and 28% said that it is a big problem. Almost half of the children explained that children in general might not report violence because they are afraid to tell someone. The questionnaire found that 71% of children responded that when they get in trouble at home their parents hit them. While this number is not surprising, it is very upsetting.
We found that 36% of participants reported being hit when they get in trouble at school. It is important to note that the majority of questionnaires were conducted at school. Although the teachers did not see the questionnaires once they were filled out, it is believed that some of the children did not answer the question honestly because they were scared that their teachers would react negatively to their answers. Participants were asked whether or not they think governmental services protect children and 81% of the children responded yes. This answer reflects that both male and female children feel that the government has the potential to protect them. However, the baseline also found that the majority of children do not feel protected. These results suggest that children trust the government to protect them, but the protective services provided by the government are inadequate and are not reaching children. During a discussion with the police and social welfare officers, the police reflected on how it is their responsibility to make sure that children are protected and safe as well as ensuring that children have rights. They also explained that children should feel comfortable reporting problems to the child police desk. It is apparent that the police are working hard to make sure that children have rights and have a safe place to go if they are in trouble. There is strong evidence that immediate action needs to be taken in Mkombozi target areas to protect children.
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It is alarming how many people believe beating a child is a successful tool of discipline. It is not surprising that such a large majority of children never feel protected from violence when so many participants report being hit at home and/or at school. In order to ensure that children are given their rights and feel protected from violence it is essential that the government, nongovernmental organizations, community members, teachers, and parents work together to promote education and change within the communities. The knowledge gained in this baseline study can be used to improve our current and future interventions in community engagement with the aim of increasing awareness about child rights and child protection.
Census of Street-Involved Children in Moshi and Arusha Mkombozi works to empower children who are currently, were previously, or are at-risk of becoming street-involved through various interventions including direct services for basic needs, family and community engagement, and awareness building through advocacy efforts.
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Over the course of 2012, our monitoring and evaluation team embarked on the 2012 Mkombozi census of street-involved children aimed to produce and analyze quantifiable data on street-involved children in Moshi and Arusha municipalities. The 2012 census was Mkombozi’s fifth census to date and it will continue to be done biennially.
The 2012 census took place over a period of 10 hours in each town with teams of interviewers approaching children on the streets with a survey that included questions regarding their age, gender, street-involvement, geographic origin, drugs and alcohol, education background, and daily activities. The goal of the census report is to build a better picture of the current demographics and needs of the street-involved children in the Arusha and Moshi municipalities. These statistics are used to help Mkombozi with advocacy and fundraising efforts as well as inform how we structure our programmes when planning for the future. In total, our research teams collected over 1,300 questionnaires in Moshi and Arusha. By early 2013, the data collected will be entered into our system and we anticipate a full research report to be launched by mid2013. Preliminary data shows there are 865 street-involved children in both towns; 269 part-time and 106 full-time in Moshi, and 355 part-time and 135 full-time in Arusha. In both Arusha and Moshi these preliminary findings show a significant increase in the number of full time street-involved children. Furthermore, the data shows a 39% increase of part-time children in Arusha and a 14% decrease of part-time children in Moshi. Preliminary data shows that three quarters (74%) of children reported that before coming to the street they were living in either Moshi or Arusha municipalities, two districts that Mkombozi works in. The census emphasizes the need for Mkombozi’s work in northern Tanzania and highlights where our efforts are most needed.
looking toward the future... Mkombozi’s new building project
Looking Toward the Future... Mkombozi has gone through tremendous growth in the past 15 years, achieving numerous milestones in helping street-involved children transform their lives and supporting communities to protect their children. This has resulted in significant growth in size and complexity, which has called upon the organization to reflect on how it can best stay relevant to its context, vision and its physical property needs. Various evaluation reports have emphasized the importance of Mkombozi owning its property so as to save on the cost of renting and provide more sustainability to our programmes. This space would be a physical rendering of Mkombozi’s commitment to prioritising children and supporting street-involved children to thrive. Given our stakeholders’ feedback and the goals of our strategic plan, Mkombozi believes that having our own facility will better position us to be more efficient and sustainable in addressing the problems faced by street-involved children, vulnerable children and their communities in Tanzania. Following the above analysis and rationale, Mkombozi concluded that it is desirable to have a new location and facilities as a core part of our future and this could form the foundation of taking Mkombozi to the next stage of its organisational development. The proposed facility will house all our facilities including: child protection offices, a temporary transition home for both girls and boys, non-formal education classrooms, a library, playing ground, community training hall, medical bay and administrative and programmatic offices and meeting rooms. The facility will provide a safe haven for street-involved children to live in before reunification with their families; it will also be an educational centre for these children and children from surrounding communities. The large training hall will house child protection trainings for future Child Protection Committees, classroom management sessions for teachers and skillful parenting training for parents. It will provide a space for communities to reflect on how to better protect children in their communities and also provide space for children to meet and express their voice for children’s rights through committee meetings and performances such as our monthly Evening of the Artist (Jioni ya Msanii) events. The facility will be constructed on the 1.5 acre of land acquired by Mkombozi in 2009 in Maili Sita located 6km from Moshi town. It is estimated that the building project will cost at least USD 200,000 (312,000,000TSH), which we intend to raise through different fundraising efforts such as donor requests, fundraising events, and local campaigns. So far, Mkombozi has raised approximately USD 81,000 from Stars Foundation, Fred Foundation and a local fundraising event. Focus has thus been placed on getting more partners and donors to support the building project and we hope to break ground by the close of 2013.
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Financial Summary Income Comic Relief Foundation for Civil Society Anonymous UNICEF Railway Children IOM Investing in Children & their Societies Pestalozzi Children’s Foundation WISE DFID EveryChild SKI The Stars Foundation Firelight Foundation Total Income
2012 TSH 446,792 125,000,000 340,345,250 9,520,004 98,934,720 156,041,248 179,244,813 108,500,000 304,266,134 119,535,021 77,500,000 22,692,890 1,541,133,288
2011 TSH 197,716,350 125,000,000 196,686,000 43,375,803 93,119,740 13,950,800 152,931,515 134,622,930 105,000,000 132,487,460 48,193,650 14,607,964 1,257,692,212
Expenditures Children’s Programmes Community Engagement Monitoring and Evaluation Communication and Fundraising HR, Finance and Administration Governance Depreciation
591,859,779 403,680,701 113,539,963 104,336,684 288,010,918 24,185,313 25,093,623
529,630,030 219,847,170 61,776,940 62,161,732 210,043,958 57,391,034 15,517,484
Total Expenditures
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1,550,706,981 1,157,123,080
2012 Donors, Partners, Supporters and Friends Mkombozi thanks you for your thoughtful donation, partnership and support. Your investment has enabled us to expand our reach, give hope, and transform lives. Your donation tells Mkombozi’s children that you believe in them, their worth and their potential. Thank you to all our financial donors: • Comic Relief/ChildHope • Foundation for Civil Society • UNICEF • Railway Children • DFID
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WISE Foundation Investing in Children & their Societies EveryChild The Stars Foundation Firelight Foundation Pestalozzi Children’s Foundation
Thank you to all our partner organizations, Friends and supporters; 2way Development Volunteers, Arusha City Council, Bergen University, Bonite Bottlers, Children’s Radio Foundation, Consortium for Street Children, Cre8 East Africa, Don Bosco Brothers, Global Service Corps, Habari Node LTD, International School of Moshi (ISM), Kilimanjaro Film Institute, Kili Centre, Majengo Secondary School, Meat King, Northern Highland School Students, Opportunity Finance Institution - Arusha, Parenting in Africa Network, President Kikwete’s office, Proud2b Me Foundation, Radio 5 Arusha, Radio Sauti ya Injili, Railway Children Trekkers, Standard Chartered Bank, TTCL, Youth Challenge International, Arusha City Council, Moshi Municipal Council, Moshi District Council. To all our individual donors, partners and supporters; for your expertise, advice and donations, we say thank you. Caucus for Children’s Rights (CCR), Amani Children Centre, Msamaria Centre, Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC), AJISO, KWIECO, Tanzania Child Rights Forum (TCRF), Children’s Dignity Forum (CDF), NOLA, Dogodogo Centre, SOS Children’s Village, Brigita & Sina, Erin Ross, Jobortunity, Kristian Johnson & Rob, Liza & Stephen Pearson, KCMC Doctors, Mark Norbury, Rosalind Yarde-Jumbe, Ryan Butt, Shaun Giddens, Mr & Mrs Mwaibasa, Mayor- Moshi Rural, Regional Commissioner Kilimanjaro, Regional Commissioner Arusha, Regional Police Commandant Arusha, Regional Police Commandant Kilimanjaro. The Executive Ward Officers from all our 13 Wards; Sokoni 1, Unga Limited, Kaloleni Arusha, Ngarenaro, Kaloleni Moshi, Majengo, Njoro, Pasua, Boma Mbuzi, Rau, Uru Mashariki, Uru Kusini and Kibosho Magharibi. the children Protection Committes in Moshi Rural, Moshi Urban and Arusha Municipality. We also thank the Mkombozi Board of Trustees for giving us strategic direction, the Mkombozi management for their astute leadership and the staff who were committed and dedicated to achieving the 2012 annual plan.
THANKS!
Hard Life Boys The “Hard Life Art Club� was born from the creative passion of four inspiring Tanzanian youth who met and grew up at the Mkombozi centre for a number of years. In late 2011, they began their transition into independent adulthood and what started as a small chicken coop turned art gallery in the back of the centre has transformed into an income generating art group reaching many local children. When asked about their experience, Morgan, the lead member says it has been great. They are grateful to Mkombozi for taking them in from the streets and identifying and nurturing their art skills to this point where they rely on their art for income and provide art classes to other children and youth. This club has since grown to involve more street-involved and vulnerable youth, equipping them with art skills that empower them to be self-reliant. According to Morgan, the club intends to set up an Art Academy that will train more youth on ways to use art to express themselves.
2012 Success Stories Mkombozi Jump Rope Team The Mkombozi jump rope team, which represents Tanzania in East Africa, participated in the Freestyle competition organized by One World; One Rope USA held in Mombasa, Kenya. Lukas Alex, a Mkombozi youth, received a medal and recognition as the best behaved youth during the competitions. According to Mr. Simon Nyembe, Mkombozi’s sports teacher, these children continue to show increased self-esteem and confidence which makes them more self-driven, competitive and resilient.
P.O. Box 9601 Moshi, Tanzania Moshi tel: +255 27 2754793 Arusha tel: +255 272544319 info@mkombozi.org www.mkombozi.org Facebook: MkomboziTanzania Twitter: @MkomboziTZ Mkombozi is a registered Tanzania Charity Trust (No. ADP/P12097). Friends of Mkombozi is a registered UK charity (No. 1101318). Mkombozi-USA is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organisation in the U.S.