CAFLO has many programs which are being carried out in the community aimed at achieving the vision and mission of the organization. These programs are as follows:
Counseling Development Program (CDP)
CAFLO offers the following counseling services to its community: individual, marriage, teen, family, relationship, divorce, voluntary counseling and testing (HIV/AIDS). These services are aimed at empowering people to overcome the problems and crises they face. Our counseling programs enable people to reach their full potential through providing coping strategies, new perspectives and direction.
Counseling training: The organization has been facilitating counseling training sessions to equip voluntary community trainees with counseling skills which they can utilize within the community.
CAFLO has been empowering several stakeholders on how to run counselling sessions in the community.
Youth Action Program (YAP)
YAP has been established to educate and empower youths to fight against various problems/crises facing them in thei lives such as HIV/AIDS, STDS, poverty, unemployment, drug abuse, unsafe sex and alcoholism.
YAP utilizes seminars, focus group discussions, workshops, sports competitions and conferences/festivals to educate youth with the following skills - behaviour changing skills, communication skills, life skills, reproductive health education, entrepreneurship skills.
Peer Education Awareness Session in the Community.
The sustainable financial support is highly needed by CAFLO to improve Soccer and its patterns among vulnerable youths in Tanzania.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children Advancement Program (OVCAP)
The number of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Tanzania is increasing rapidly due to the increase in HIV/AIDS and its stigmatization. Most of these children lack essential needs like parental care, food, shelter, clothes and education. OVCAP's objective is to provide psycho-social support to orphans and vulnerable children found in these marginalized families and communities.
Over 100 OVC's have already been identified by CAFLO. This number is increasing on a daily basis, all of which desperatly require financial support and other resources to enable them to live a healthy life.
Many orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) have been identified in the community during the implementation of OVCAP.
CAFLO in collaboration with various Volunteers plays great role to provide Psycho-social support to the most vulnerable children (MVC)in Tanzania as shown above.
Afya Njema Program (ANP)
Afya Njema (Good Health Program) was established to empower those living with HIV/AIDS.
This program facilitates sessions where experiences and skills are shared and discussed. Personal experiences on how to combat stigma and discrimination are explored at the meetings. Supportive and Adherence Counseling is also offered to members of the program in order to help people accept their health status and participate fully in the community.
ANP provides information for people living with HIV/AIDS on nutritional health, boosting their immunity as well as providing access to treatment (e.g. Anti-Retro Virus drugs).
Women Economic Empowerment Program (WEEP)
Many women in Tanzania living below the poverty level are widows who previously depended on their husbands for income, many of these women are also living with HIV/AIDS. This program is aimed at equipping women with skills on Income Generating Activities, business management and entrepreneurship to enable them to generate a sustainable income for themselves and their families.
Women working on income generating projects
Capacity Building Program (CBP)
CAFLO runs seminars and training sessions to educate members of the community on the following:
- Social Skills
- Behaviour Change
- Entrepreneurship
- Reproductive Health
- Human Rights
- Counseling
- Governance
- Communication skills.
Journalist from Star Television (StarTV) reporting on the seminar for local government leaders on good governance and womens rights conducted by CAFLO.
CAFLO has been conducting various Seminars and Training in the community.
Life Against Drugs Abuse and Alcoholism (LADA)
Drugs and alcohol abuse are major issues in Tanzania, particularly among youth. This program is designed to educate those affected through seminars, training sessions and focus groups. CAFLO also offers Counseling to those in need.
Home Based Care (HBC) Program
CAFLO provides an HBC service to those in the community that are chronically ill and require physical, psychological and social support. Through good quality and appropriate care that enables patients and families to maintain their livelihood and quality of life.
Education Development Program (EDP)
EDP is made up of formal education and peer education development.
- Formal education: This program is designed to equip orphans, vulnerable children and youth to pursue further studies by providing them with requirments needed for school such as fees, books, etc.
CAFLO has been empowering OVC to work hard and perform well in their studies by providing them accurate scholastics as shown above.
- Community education: This program is run by Peer Educators to educate and empower community members about how to overcome current social and economic problems/issues the face such as HIV/AIDS, drugs and alcohol abuse, prostitution, alcoholism.
- Also, community members being empowered to understand well human rights especially women and children rights, the importance of family planning and reproductive health education among youths. This is being implemented through direct engagement with the community by using several methodologies including focus group discussions, peer education, community sensitization meetings, visiting house to house (door to door approach), Soccer competitions and organizing festivals .
CAFLO has been conducting several community education meetings aimed at educating and empowering communty members to combat various problems/crisis facing them.
Advocacy and Human Rights Movement Program (AHRMP)
AHRMP is an advocacy program designed to raise awareness and protect rights of marginalized groups in the community. The implementation is done through educating others on changes in attitudes, behaviors, policies and laws. CAFLO works closely with other human rights networks such as Southern Africa Rights Non Government Network (SAHRINGON).
Disabled Empowerment Program (DEP)
Tanzania is one of the developing countries that has a large number of disabled people ( like cripples, blinds, albinos, dumb and deaf) due to stigmatization they often lack proper social and economic supports. This situation has resulted in several problems such as poverty, HIV/AIDS infection, unemployment, death, etc.
Thus, the main objective of this program is to empower people with disabilities to fight against problems facing them and thereafter to live peaceful and healthily in their respective families, community and the national at large.
Currently, CAFLO has been playing great role to enable those individuals to gain entrepreneurship skills, life skills, psycho-social support, etc
CAFLO in collaboration with various Volunteers from Abroad has been providing concrete support to many people with disabilities as shown above.
Research Development Program (RDP)
Research projects are carried out by CAFLO to identify the main causal factors of social problems in the community and gain new information. We conduct our research through questionniare surveys, structured interviews and direct observation. Through these methods we are able to evaluate the quantitative and qualitative data to help us to understand the problems, and create effective approaches that can be incorporated in our programs
CAFLO`s Researchers have been conducting various researches and baseline surveys in the community as shown above.
Stop Gender Based Violence for Family Development (SGBVFD):
This program established by CAFLO purposelly to engage more and increase efforts to combat Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the family and the community at large.
The problem of Gender Based Violence is prevailing rapidly in various rural-urban areas of Tanzania. It results from gender norms, social and economic inequities that give privilege to men over women.
In Tanzania, GBV takes many forms including physical, sexual, psychological and economic violence. It also linked to other broader societal issues such as early marriage, female genital mutilation, forced marriage and widow inheritance. The GBV problem has a greater impact on women and girls as they are most often survivors and suffer greater physical damage than men and boys when victimized.
Thus, this program established by CAFLO aimed at empowering family members to combat gender based violence and thereafter to live healthily and peacefully with full participation to foster socio-economic development in their families, community and the country at large.
For that case, the organization has been playing great role to raise awareness on several aspects such as;
- Advocates for and Protecting women and girls` rights.
- Engage men and boys in efforts to mobilize communities against gender based violence.
- Linking gender based violence and HIV in combating HIV infection in the community.
- Conducting several baseline surveys to identify the magnitude of gender based violence (GBV) in various and different communities.
- Working with young men and women to educate them on reproductive health issues and to promote health decision making.
Therefore, the sustainable financial support is highly required to implement the program effectivelly and efficiently in the community and the country at large.
Economic and sexual violence are among the forms of GBV problem which have been facing many women and girls in Tanzania.