there for children.

Many families in Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania, fall apart due to different reasons. The problems listed below lead to a lack of finances which would be able to provide basic needs such as food, healthcare, a safe home, clothes, and education. That in turn leads to the fact that many children end up living on the street and in orphanages. There are children who get abandoned and left alone on the street, with the hope that they will be found by one of the local NGO and get the chance to grow up in an orphanage. But the children often run away with the paradox hope to find a better chance of food, safety, and help on the street.
We would like to stop this. Our main work is to help families getting back to their social and financial independence in which parents can raise their children at home. Every child deserves the right of growing up with his/her relatives and every parent deserves the chance to do so. The goal is to not only find fitting solutions for individuals and single families, but to enable the whole community in which our families live in. The benefit of the below described self-sustainability project will be far-reaching and a long-term change will be taking place in the surrounding area.
 
Social problems:
Due to personal family issues, individual psychical and social problems within the family or community. For example: One partner leaves the other parent behind because they don’t want to take over any responsibility. The parent with the child can’t come up with the money for food, child care etc.
Mental health:
Alcohol- and or drug-addiction leads to a lack of financial resources for the whole family. Often the affected people do not know that they are addicted. Education and knowhow about addictions in communities are rare. Also, many mental health problem are unknown or undiscovered. The abilities to cure the source of the problem are very small without professional intervention, which is sadly very rare too. For example: Mental overload of parents with children with disabilities and flight into alcohol.
Physical Health:
Disabilities, Accidents, Operations, or a long-term disease is often the reason why families are forced to sell what they own, why they loose their jobs and why there are not able to come up for all the necessary basics to live. For example: Accident of a parent without social security systema and long-term physical health problems.
Educational:
A lack of education often exists for children which grew up in financially poor families or tribes in which especially the women are told to marry and care for their children, where no education needed. A lack of education leads to jobs which are poorly paid and jobs which do not obtain a regular income. For example: No fix jobs, but easy work as day laborers washing, cleaning, doing hair, helping on farms, working as carriers.