| 2: Program Affiliates: Our program affiliates contribute to or work with CHREE in the selection, design, and execution of programs. They include grassroot organizations which share our mission and approach, and have relative expertise which complement CHREE^s effort. 2:1 CHISWEA- Children of The Street Welfare Association: CHISWEA is a nongovernmental organization of volunteers with a mission of providing safe custody and nurture to the growing number of street children most of whom were left behind by the victims of AIDS. It grew out of overwhelmed makeshift shelter premises of a government Welfare department, and later moved to a small shelter house built by volunteers in the outskirts of the city of Arusha in Tanzania |
CHISWEA has gradually expanded its shelter and currently provides accommodation to over 60 children mostly boys at their Sokon I center, where children are fed, clothed, housed on bunk beds, and offered rudimentary classroom setting for possible placements in regular schools in the area. Through volunteers and donations of materials and money, the facility is being expanded and a new building site has been identified within the municipal boundary. The new facility will incorporate youth vocational skillls training in addition to providing rooming and instructional setting for those who are still in the streets But an innovative out reach program recently launched by Chiswea, through which it extends vital livelihood support ( income generation) to members of the community who offer care and nurturing to orphans in their home settings is increasingly playing a remarkable role in removing orphans and homeless children from the streets. Read More. |
Through a coalition of volunteer groups from the community and religious organizations, and in collaboration with the government Welfare department, CHISWEA has served nearly 2000 street children from its inception, providing what it could from counseling, family integration,, meals clothing, to school placements and teaching at makeshift premises. You can help by giving your tax- deductible donations through CHREE to this or other orphanages. Read more about the CHISWEA's challenges and achievements. |