Mobilising and bringing together under 14-year adolescent girls with pregnancy near the health facility in a bid to reduce unnecessary deaths caused with extreme poverty and harmful traditional practices such as gender violence and female genital mutilation. ARUPA under its outreach programme realizes and understands that most young girls are endangered as they die from pregnancy complications in Central Tanzania. Something must be done.
Adolescent girls are surrounded with hazardous environment including sexual harassment, underage marriage and early unplanned pregnancy. ARUPA has initiated a programme to support them through capacity building and childhood entrepreneurship development projects like Saloon and other small scale projects.
Adolescent girls staging demonstration and denouncing underage marriage, Female Genital Mutilation and all other forms of discrimination and violence against children.
The ARUPA President, Daniel Msangya presenting a paper on human rights and good governance to the media practitioners, during a three day-long workshop held at Fifty Six Hotel, Dodoma, October, 2013
Media stakeholders meeting to evaluate the implementation of ARUPA Programmes. The meeting resolved that AFPDP be overwhelmed, thus AYETA was approved to replace the former.
Meeting at ARUPA office between ARUPA staff and member s of Community based Organisation affiliated to ARUPA,(Tumaini Women Group - TWG) to discuss the fate of vulnerable children. ARUPA has so far supported 470 vulnerable children since 2002. From left: Mwajuma Msanghaa, Chairperson of TWG, Petrida Pesha, Secretary of TWG and Hilder Mohammed, Gender and Adolescent Officer of ARUPA and Faustina Munga, Teenage Facilitator of ARUPA
Mr. Mathew Peter, ARUPA Community Field Officer, making presentation on challenges which may face Public Expenditure Tracking Survey s (PETS) and measures to take on overcoming them. The workshop held at KKKT-ELCT conference hall for five days from 16th -20th December 2013 under ‘’BE ACCOUNTABLE Project” undertaken by Young Women Christian Association (YWCA) involving ARUPA youth. The Project is implemented in Dodoma Region
Some ARUPA staff taking a welcome photo with Chloe Janssen, from Paris (Internship Staff),France on 14th January 2014. From right: Mathew Peter (Community Field Officer), Daniel Msangya (The President), Chloe Jansen, Benta Matunga (The Coordinating Secretary) and Mathew Leonard (The Human Resource Administrator)