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Global Child Care Tanzania
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Sustainable Development
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| Affiliation with other organizations: | We affiliate with British Child Care - UK |
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Statements or documents submitted Commission on Sustainable Development: |
The Issues of Sustainable Development they are several however we would highlight the areas where we have been involved in reference to our mission and what we do as hereinafter appearing: - Under Social and Economic Sustainable Development, our area of concern has been poverty reduction among the poor families particularly neediest widows with children. Why assisting neediest migrant widows with children ? Among the many widows in Tanzania, we select the neediest widows who have children who depend on them. As most of the tribes in African culture and customs, have not been favoring women especially when it comes to the issue of death of their husbands or a case of divorce. Women in most cases have been left with nothing as the properties if any, have been counted as belong to the husband and in case of death of the husband, relatives of the husband have been taking all properties with the claim that they are properties of the husband who is their relative. In this case a widow with the children are left to the extreme difficulties, poverty, harassment and sometimes tortures from within the family members of the husband as reported by some widows interviewed. So widows with children are taken as a special group in the society which needs the attention while they exercise their struggle in living in a fair ground If widows are left without any assistance, their mode of struggle will affect not only their welfare but also the whole community wellbeing. The results will definitely hinder or slow down social and economic development of the whole society because widows posses a lot of children and both widows and their children if may be tempted to act irrationally, this may endanger not only their life but of others in the community as well. For instance, in case of rough business such as sexuality, burglary – common with children, loitering and street begging the results will be extra spreading of diseases such as HIV, disturbance of peace and the increase of the number of street children in towns. Assisting widows who have children, apart from reducing the heavy burden left to the widows in taking care of their children, this also reduces the increase of the number of street children in our towns where in most cases the number have been added by children from widows families among other sources. Therefore these are the ones we aim to help. “Priority actions of the United Nations system in reference to Chapter II of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation are: 1. improving access to sustainable livelihoods, entrepreneurial opportunities and productive resources; 2. providing universal access to basic social services; 3. progressively developing social protection systems to support those who cannot support themselves; 4. empowering people living in poverty and their organizations; 5. addressing the disproportionate impact of poverty on women; 6. working with interested donors and recipients to allocate increased shares of ODA to poverty eradication; and 7. intensifying international cooperation for poverty eradication.” Global Child Care Tanzania has specialized working on poverty reduction among neediest widows with children as the most and highly affected easily with the effects of poverty among other groups. Therefore we have continued working on implementing United Nations plans as quoted herein above but mainly targeting widows with children as may be referred to our web page http://globalchildctz.wozaonline.co.za |
Social Development
| Purpose of the organization: | Establishment: In recognition of the prevailing needs among widows with children, members of Global Child Care Tanzania (GCCT), considered appropriate, to establish a Society, which shall cultivate and maintain good working relationship with all persons, Governments, Organizations, Institutional bodies within and without Tanzania jurisdiction that believe in the right of every human being to necessities of life - like food, clothes, academic knowledge and shelter. In the context of the above, in a meeting of the founders members of the Society held at the office premises of the GCCT at Arusha, on 21stNovember, the year 1995 it was resolved unanimously to establish a voluntary non-political, non-governmental and non-profit organization (NGO) whose official title is Global Child Care Tanzania, abbreviated as GCCT. GCCT was officially registered with the Tanzanian Government Authority on 20th May, the year 1996 under the societies ordinance (cap. 337). (ii) Vision of GCCT: GCCT is envisioning “Improved Sustainable Livelihood of neediest widows with children in Tanzania.” This acts as a fundamental drive for the establishment and operational of the above mentioned interventions under GCCT. (iii) Mission of GCCT: The core organization mission is “To become the best facilitator of a development intervention for neediest widows with children to enable them address their needs in a sustainable manner.” (iv) Belief and Core Value: Every one has capacity to sustain life and develop for the better, given the opportunities hence GCCT believes that widows with children way of working creates space for them to act on those opportunities. GCCT values the strengths and dignity of widows with children. 2.0 Mandate, Purpose, Goals(s): GCCT was established with a purpose of empowering the disadvantaged neediest migrant widows with children who have been moving from one place to another seeking assistance. The said empowerment has been done through advocating and encouraging self-initiatives that promote positive economic and education change hence contribute to the government efforts of poverty reduction strategies. 2.1 What Must Be Done: Facilitate most needy widows with children - to exploit opportunities for economic, educational change and getting hold of opportunities for owning strategic resources; Promote negotiation opportunities for most needy widows with children to access public services; Fund raising in furtherance of GCCT charitable work; Promote civil rights and increased responsibilities for widows with children to build self-confidence and esteem; Promote, respect and observance of human rights among widows; Institutional capacity development for GCCT; Promoting participatory way of working as an instrument for widows with children voices to be heard. |
| Confirmation of the activities of the organization at the regional, national or international level: | Confirmation of the activities of the organization can be available from our various sources such as: - British Child Care UK - through Chairperson Mrs. Jan Partridge - email address "Jan Partridge" <gjpartridge@tiscali.co.uk> - Mr. Rolf Erik Janoy - our long time partner and fundriser for our activities from Norway - his email address is "Rolf Erik Janoy" <rolfjanoy@gmail.com> - Through British Child Care website: http://britishchildcare.co.uk/projects/tanzania |
| A list of members of the governing body of the organization, and their countries of nationality: | The list is: 1. Mrs. Margaret Tesha - from Tanzania 2. Rev. Yosea Mliga - from Tanzania 3. Mr. Rolf Erik Janoy - from Norway 4. Mr. David Maturlu - from Tanzania 5. Mrs. Mary Lyimo - from Tanzania 6. Rev. Arne Lune - from Norway 7. Mrs. Jane Mlahagwa - from Tanzania 8. Mrs. Frida Terry - from Tanzania 9. Mrs. Edith Mliga - from Tanzania 10. Rev. Amos Nkin - from Tanzania |
| Description of the membership of the organization, indicating the total number of members: | We have the permanent members who are the founder members of the organization whereby their number is 105. We have also the part time members which include workers and representatives of the needy groups we assist whereby their number varies from time to time. |
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