Note: The menu shows the 36 African countries where Africare has worked, not the other African countries.

 


(Sheila McKinnon photo)

Tanzania

Africare's program of assistance to Tanzania began in 1994, with a rainwater-catchment development effort in the Dodoma region. An array of projects have followed over the years. On the islands of Zanzibar, for example, Africare assisted indigenous self-help groups to develop a counseling program for AIDS victims. Tanzanian craftspeople received help from Africare to improve the quality and marketability of their products. A major child survival project, begun in 1998, delivered life-saving assistance to families in the district of Kongwa. Also in 1998, Africare began an integrated poverty alleviation and environmental conservation project in communities adjacent to the Ugalla Game Reserve. From 1996 to 2005, Africare provided emergency shelter, education, food and medical care to tens of thousands of refugees from the ethnic warfare in neighboring Burundi. By 2005, many of those refugees were gradually returning home. Africare assisted local governments and communities in Kigoma, Tabora and Dodoma regions to build hundreds of classrooms, health clinics, staff housing and water systems in a program ended in 2006. Since 2005 Africare has been assisting orphans, other vulnerable children and their caregivers throughout Dodoma region. That work expanded to Coast region and Zanzibar in 2006, where it was complemented with home-based care for people living with HIV/AIDS. In 2005 and 2006, Africare assisted the Zanzibar Ministry of Health to distribute life-saving insecticide-treated bednets to all women of child-bearing age and children under five years of age. In 2007, Africare began assisting local groups to fight HIV/AIDS among high-risk groups along major truck routes. Since 2005, Africare has been assisting the Ministry of Health in the roll-out of the malaria treatment Artemisinin combination therapy throughout mainland Tanzania. Since 2005, Africare/Tanzania has hosted the secretariat of the Tanzanian Nongovernmental Alliance Against Malaria.

Current Africare assistance to Tanzania:

  • HIV prevention
  • Care for people living with HIV or AIDS
  • Assistance to AIDS orphan and other vulnerable children
  • Malaria control
  • School construction
  • Rural infrastructure development
  • Integrated poverty alleviation and environmental conservation

 

(Updated, Dec. 18, 2007)