TunaHAKI Centre

The partner carrying out the work of this project is the TunaHaki Foundation that is working with the Tanzanian based TunaHAKI Centre.

According a World Bank funded study in June 2003 [Study document], Orphans in Sub-Saharan Countries: A Framework for Public Action, H. Binswanger (2000) notes that in the Kagera Region of Tanzania where an estimated 200,000 children are orphaned, NGOs provide support in only two out of five districts, and in the two districts they serve no more than 5 percent of orphaned children.

$745 = Reunifies child living in orphanage with extended family and provides support (including school fees) for one year.

$320 = One year of an orphaned child's medical costs

In June of 2006, Edward Lowassa, the Prime Minister of Tanzania, in a speech at the United Nations Headquarters, stated that "care and support for people living with HIV and AIDS aпd in particular that of orphans and children made vulnerable by HIV апd AIDS pose a growing challenge to the government and especially as the capacities of the traditional social safety nets are diminishing. Thus strengthening the capacity of communities economically and socially is necessary if we are to provide the care and support and encouragement. People and communities ought to be economically empowered to be able to afford the required nutrition which goes with medical treatment."