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Issue 00470 |
May 26 - June 1, 2007 |
issn 0856 - 9135 |
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Street kids numbers increasing
daily By Edward Selasini
A US- based non governmental organization (NGO) known as Kidcare International was in Arusha this week visiting various orphanages and donating assortments of materials including school stationeries, clothes, toys and sports gear. The group comprised four students, three staff members from Pepperdine University of California, USA and a representative of Kidcare International Mr Lowell G. Rice. Kidcare International is a humanitarian relief organization that strives to make a lasting difference in the quality of life for children especially orphans in the global community. The group from California started the visit on the May 19 and will end on May 29. The group shared with street children their life experiences. They told the street children at Chiswea center that they had also gone through the life being experienced by the kids but by God's grace they were able to come out of that kind of life. They urged the street children to do away with street life and drugs and accept to live in orphanage centers where they will be rehabilitated. The visitors came with bags full of children clothes, shoes and toys. They donated them to eight orphanage centers-- Chiswea Center for orphans, Samaritan Village, Shalom Center, TOA Center for orphans, Green Hope Center for children, Living Waters Orphanage, Mto wa Mbu primary school and Lazeli Schools. Chiswea Center Director Simon Panga told the group that each day street kids are increasing due to poverty in the area the center serves. He said his center caters for 85 vulnerable street kids 43 living at the center while 42 live with either guardians or well wishers.
The center has 27 primary school children who attend various schools in Arusha region, 5 students attend secondary school, 1 high school and another attends vocational training school. The center also offers informal training to the children who are not attending any kind of school. KidCare International supports Chiswea Center, a voluntary, non-Governmental Organization dedicated to improve the lives of children living in difficult circumstances in Arusha municipality. It has been granted a three- year endowment for food worth US $300 per month by KidCare International. Kidcare International launched its support in Arusha in March 2006 after Ellans Tanzania Limited, Books and Educational Materials Suppliers Director Mr. Stephano Ole-Teveli and KidCare International's three officials, including the President, visited the center in December last year.
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