Key Success Story for the CCDO
Children Care Development Organization (CCDO) is an NGO, based in Iringa City – Tanzania, whose mission is to identify current development issues and development best practices on the ground and to make this knowledge available to development organizations and local and national responsible bodies in order to highlight and alleviate the problems at a community level.
The CCDO vision is to improve the living standards of misery rural households through education, entrepreneurs, self-reliant participatory efforts of members of those households and vocational training in the areas of carpentry, tailoring and embroidery, welding, metal works, motor mechanics and garage activities. While our CCDO mission is to strengthen local community competency to the promotion of education, primary health care and development to deprived members of the societies through capacity building, provision of handcraft industries and vocational training to impaired children, poverty reduction, promoting human rights and advocacy skills, community mobilization skills, and mitigation of the socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS in selected communities in Tanzania.
CCDO objective was to establish a school that will offer education for misery children from Pre-primary and Primary School in Iringa town of Iringa Region in Tanzania and to expand project in other local districts in Tanzania and across East and Central African Countries, as well as to ensure that misery rural men and women adopt the culture of saving and are able to invest in and manage viable income generating activities, and support community outreach work, disabled children, orphans, widows, youth groups and women’s empowerment through capacity building.
Since its inception we have managed to promote and increase women awareness on good governance, and also we conducted capacity Building in the field of youth Agreement for Refugee Integration through Dignity, Health and Employability’ (RITDHE). The project included the following international organizations Catalyst in Communities (CICUK); DRAMBLYS (DRAM); Artemisszio Foundation (AF); InterMedia KT(ITMK); Institute for Training of Personnel in International Organisations (ITPIO); Istitutodei Sordi di Torino (IST); Children Care Organisation (CCDO); Southern African Refugee Project (SAY) from the EU Members , South Africa and Tanzania under support from the Le Menanch Foundation (LMF) in United Kingdom.
However, we thank for our God for all He is blessing the CCDO and our loved community members including our NGO partners. For the strengthen us to give each day and for all the people around us who make life more meaningful. We thank our God for enabling us to construct our own school known as Peace Flame Pre and Primary School at Nduli village within Iringa Iringa City of Iringa Region in Tanzania. Now we have Pupils from Kindergarten up to Standard Five (5). This is an English Medium School for our street children and orphans, while pupils from rich families are encouraged to join at our school just to enable our school to be sustainable in cash follow and let us to afford to feed our most vulnerable children known as orphans. Therefore, it is part of our faith as a CCDO to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic / political injustice as the Great American Philosopher Abraham Lincoln who said that “to care4 for those, who shall have borne the battle and for their families and survivors”, similarly to the messenger of Allah, said “one who strives to help a widow or the poor is like one who struggles in the cause of Allah” Sahid Muslim.
Furthermore, the Biblical interpretation regarding the work of CCDO on orphans and widows stated that” the Lord watches over the Sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of wicked he brings to ruin (Psalm 146:9).
Please we are appealing individuals, development agencies, charities organizations, NGOs, local governments, researcher’s institutions, universities, public and private sector to join us to find together a long term development challenges in this development case study (DCS) as describes below.
In spite of the efforts of CCDO above, there are still many unmet needs in Iringa. With additional funding CCDO will be able to expand and improve its services to the community, including:
1) Providing Healthcare to OVCs/ MVCs and PLWHAs
2) Providing healthcare and clean water education
3) Ensuring that 250 OVCs /MVCs Complete Basic Education
4) Providing OVCs/ MVCs with Adequate and Secure Shelter
5) Improving the Psychosocial Well-Being of 250/MVCs/ OVCs and 1500 PLWHAs
6) Improving the Nutritional Status and Food Security of OVCs/MVCs and PLWHAs
7) Fighting Social Stigma and Improving Legal Rights of OVCs/ MVCs and PLWHAs
8) Providing Home-Based Care services since Home-based care
Your donation money will help us to implement the following activities;
a) Education and vocational training.
1) School enrolment
2) Payment of school levies for early childhood development
3) Provision of school uniforms
4) Provision of scholastic materials
5) Visits to schools to promote school retention
6) Access to vocational training and apprenticeship
7) Provide financial support for OVC/MVC vocational training.
b) Healthcare and Sanitation:
1) Prevention, e.g. immunization, health education, environmental sanitation, personal hygiene promotion.
2) Referral of children and their caregivers to appropriate health service providers.
3) Promoting the health seeking behavior of the household.
4) Provision of sanitary towels to mature girls.
5) Community and Home based care
6) Awareness creation towards improved health standards.
c) Shelter and care.
1) Every child must have an adult caregiver
2) Provision of care to children enrolled in the program.
3) Support to child headed households.
4) Provision of clothing, bedding, mosquito nets to OVC.
5) Shelter renovation
d) Life-skills and HIV prevention for school children.
1) HIV/AIDS awareness creation and sensitization geared towards behavior change.
2) Peer education in school
3) Working with community/women groups in creating HIV/AIDS awareness and providing Community and Home based care to people living with AIDS.
4) Provide financial support for OVC vocational training.
e) Psychosocial support.
1) Counseling
2) Life skills
3) Recreation
4) Family fun days
5) Parenting and caregiver support
6) Home visits by care providers
7) Stigma reduction
f) . Food Security and Nutrition.
g) Child Protection.
1) Protecting the children from all forms of abuses e.g. sexual abuse and exploitation.
2) Ensure the well being of the child by ensuring that the OVC/MVC have food, shelter, access to health services and school.
3) Provide counseling to OVC/MVC and guardians.
4) Ensure nutrition for the OVC/MVC.
5) Care for the chronically ill guardians to delay orphaning of the children.
6) Provide spiritual counseling to OVC/MVC.
7) Prepare the children for death of their parents (will writing, identify foster parents, develop memory books)
8) Mobilize resources to support OVC/MVC.
9) Train guardians on OVC /MVC care.
10) Assisting with birth registration and
11) Inheritance claims.
h) Economic Strengthening.
1) Skills building for care givers
2) Income generation activities
3) Employment creation initiatives
4) Small business promotion
5) Savings and internal lending to communities
6) Linkages with other community economic promotion initiatives e.g. table banking and grants.
In partnership with the Community groups, the CCDO team will:
1) Facilitate the supervision and monitoring of the project and will report on the progress according to agreed indicators.
2) Monitor community performance, including financial management, according to agreed indicators and schedule
3) Document the assistance provided to OVC/MVC.
4) Facilitate monthly community-monitoring meetings to ensure accountability
5) CCDO staff will prepare a human-interest story with photos illustrating the difference that OVC/MVC support has made in the lives of an orphan or highly vulnerable child and her/ his family.
The CCDO gives the chance to academics, Aid development workers, people who are interested in human development problem as well as people who are interested in working in the development arena to work in the field to help the local communities know and understand which human development challenges they are facing. Therefore, we welcome international volunteers to come to volunteer to work with us. The CCDO will help the volunteers interested to come to support us in the Post of teaching English and science subjects, Administrative Managerial Post, Project Writing Post and Research Post. The CCDO will offer free houses and security guards at their house while also we will help them in applying for their working permits from our President’s Office in Dar es Salaam.
Also we will be very happy to the volunteer who can help us to get the used school bus for our school , because now days we have 2 School Hiace (min bus), but they are unable to tackle our challenges of carrying out more pupils during the morning and evening time when we return back our pupils to their homes. We are in high need to get a big used bus (School Coaster0, we prefer to Toyota – school coaster) which can meet our current challenges.
Any donation to the CCDO can be channel through:
1) Our email: childrencareorg1@gmail.com
2) WhatsAp +255754813368
3) M-Pesa +255754813368