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A: SERVICE ORIENTED PROJECT
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B: Proposed project
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« Street work service
This project intends indentify kids at the 1st time on the street.
Our Street-educator spends time in down-town Moshi and Arusha, local cities in Tanzania, at the places where ,run way, homeless children and abandoned congregate regardless of religious faith or ethnic group and educate them the effects of street environment in the entire future, child’s obligations and how do parents/relatives feels. Children were given options, there's somewhere they can go temporary where they'll be safe, no one will hurt them, they'll have food, a bed, the chance to go to school and have possibility to address family problem together etc.
The Msamaria street educators who were the former street child and with Social Work skills do an initial assessment that involves a visit to the place were living before they fled to the streets.
However, there those children in between 14 – 24 chose street life as part and parcel of their life, you couldn’t manage to get them out of street in all means, but still they deserve as human being physical and moral support, psychosocial-support and get to empowered spirally ,mentally, emotionally and economically.
« Home visits, follow ups and re-unification
Understanding the reasons why children find be on the street differ, children behavior are not similar even children were twins, children 
This project is done by qualified trained social worker to do a second home visit(s) and set the counseling schedule depending on the nature of problem and who also meet children's relatives and see if there is any way possible for the child to return home and set a plan on how family re-unification would work.
The centre even perhaps, if the child is an AIDS orphan, we can sometimes locate an auntie, grandmother, or cousin who is able to give the child a safe and happy home. Our ultimate goal is always re-unification; as positive an environment as Msamaria can offer, it’s always preferable for a child to be in a family as opposed to an institution. If we can rescue a homeless child from the streets and find a good placement for them with relatives, we consider it our greatest success.
« Education support
If re-unification with the child's family is impossible at the current time, the child returns to live at Msamaria and is enrolled in an 
individualized educational program. There are two branches to Msamaria's Education Program.
The first is Non-Formal Education, where the child learns basic reading and writing, math’s and English on-site, at Msamaria. This is most often for older children who never had the chance to go to school. Because there’s no free public education in Tanzania, children who come from family situations so desperate that they had to run to the streets for survival have rarely had the chance to go to school.
The second branch is Formal Education, where children are mainstreamed into local schools along with neighborhoods children.
Our learning approach :
- Based on innovations results, including multi-grading teaching detailed teacher’s guide.
- The teachers becomes more of a facilitator and students more independent learner.
- Using easy-to-follow lesson guides prepared to give children active role in learning
- Learning is dynamic rather than by rote and involves play and practical applications and nature.
- Use teaches useful skills to attract and retain children
- Teaches general life skills and about their own rights
- Adopt children’s circumstances, the annual and daily timetable can be adjusted accordingly nature of teaching environmental, simplified curriculum and logical produced learning materials.
- Teaching methods must give away to child-centred approach, children must enjoy education if it is to have a powerfully effects.
- Kids have more voice regarding their education. They monitor their own attendance and can communicate problems and concerns through open dialogue.
- and if not suggestions boxes in the centre.
- The atmosphere also encourages learning. More than just collection in classrooms
Msamaria also has a full-time matron with nursing background who takes care of the children's health needs. Most children arriving at Msamaria are malnourished, some severely so (the medical term for this is “kwashiorkor”), and it's our job to literally nurse them back to health - with the assistance of eggs, milk, and a special protein porridge. The matron also teaches weekly health classes on relevant topics such as HIV/AIDS, hygiene, cleanliness, etc.
« Watoto Rafiki
Children are also involved in what we call our Rafiki (“friendly”) program. This means that each child is in a “friend group” with two or 
three other children, led by a staff member. Staffs meets with their member in groups every weekend’s morning and discuss a pre-arranged topic, such as the importance of honesty, working hard in school, or helping people around you. Such basic ethics are usually just absorbed in children by parents, but we are being intentional to teach them as the children are separated from their parents, if indeed they are even alive. The staffs also meet with each child in their "friend group" on a regular basis. They will sit down with them individually and say, "How are you? What are you thinking about these days?" The Rafiki Program is our attempt to make sure that every child has individualized love and a parental figure in their life, and that no one falls through the cracks.
Watoto Rafiki group responsibility
- To help all children in the group as their parent by doing the following.
- Settling all children’s problems(especially conflicts among themselves etc)
- To encourage love, cooperation and helping each other within a group.
- Supervising clothes arrangement and cleanness of the cupboards where they keep their clothes etc.
- To enforce kids on the education areas in collaboration with education department.
- Collaborate with other guardians in enforcing environmental cleanness and children themselves.
- Enforcing children in understanding importance of manual work.eg gardening ,etc
. Collaborating with social workers in building family relationship.
- Collaborating with group leaders in order to make kids fill they can rule themselves.
- Collaborating with other guardians to get appropriate solution in conflicts concerning other groups.
- To have a talk with your group at least once a week (about their home life, in the center, future dreams etc)
Doing any voluntary work for the group and organization benefit.
« Familie Rafiki (FR)
Prior giving out the general concept of Familia Rafiki , the term Familia Rafiki as the Swahili word must be clearly known ;”Familia Rafiki” means “Family Friend”.
The concept is that, families with loves and good accepted ethics within the community can be allowed to choose one or two kids according to their family decision as family friend. The chosen kids can be regarded as their family member, and make sure that they support the kids to grow positively in physically, spiritually, mentally and socially.
Family, by the simple definition: father, mother and children are allowed to visit, have talks, bringing gifts to their friend kid(s) at any time during week days, holidays and weekends except night hours. During the holidays and weekends family is allowed to take the kids (s) and stay with him. The families have to portray real love to the kid. In case any miss behaving caused by the child, family friend can report to the centre guardian.
« Family Support Programme (FSP)
This project intends to create and strengthen income generating activities to poor families where street children are brought, this is done purposely in order to develop an acceptable environment for possible successful of family to take care of their own, to re-store love and matrimony relation, reduce street children and encourage family reunification.
Most of street kids migrate from rural areas were the majority families couldn’t manage to provide a single meal a day leave apart the balanced diet, live mud huts, with no medical service poor infrastructure etc
In understanding the situation Msamaria center through its team of Social Workers play a significant role in educating these poor families to identify their surrounding resources as well as linking them with financial institutions for fund access. In attempt to fight poverty these families engage in various projects such as gardening, poetry, piggery and petty business for their income generation.
« Parental – Child Relationship (PCR)
This project intended to create and raise awareness on child’s right the family and community. The social of Msamaria center conducts field work visit to the families where the majority of our children come from, the pilot area(s) chosen depend on the allocated resources to bring about positive attitude towards irresponsible parents among the community.
« Community Outreach Programme (COP)
This project intend to discourage the trends of children to vacate their families by targeting the community at large this done through supporting those children who are orphans, abandoned and those coming from very poor families.
The team of qualified Social Worker together with local leaders indentified most vulnerable children (MVC) as well as accessing their immediate and long term needs.
These needs vary from one child to another, other those deserve education support, food, shelter, and clean water while others demands all.
« Child Protection
This project intend to provide protection to all children who come attention our service, street children likewise the other children protection is among an important right which have deserve as human being ,the shelter under Msamaria roof finished with full of buckle bed,mattress,mosquito nets and bed sheets.
The center ensures food to all children four times a day, i.e. polligde ,tea, lunch and dinner, all these food are African food, like Ugali, stiff pollidge,rice and beans with vegetables etc
Most children arriving at Msamaria are malnourished, some severely so, and it's our responsibility to assistance these improve their health status by ensuring the provision of balanced diet or special diet as per medical consultation.
The shelter under the supervision of day guardians the night Baba/Mamas done 24 hours survives to children as prepare each individual child to return to care of their family or a substitute family. The shelter is available to serve for temporary purpose, operates as cyclical process; with new children being received as beds become available and will continue until such a time as the organization is no longer required.
« Self reliance Education
This project intend to impact and develop skills of children by train and given them opportunities in physical activities like gardening, cleanness, family, animal keeping ,art craft work etc . The Msamaria guardian’s are models to children by doing things together with children, we wash together with children, we farm together, we make beds together, and the matron spoke.
These children develop a sense of hominess as their keep their own animal like pig gene, rabbit, pegion etc
This education help the children to gain child work skills, have sources of income and sometimes get food, like in gardening activities
« Sports and games
This project intend to give children opportunity of enjoying their rights to play, the Social Worker from the 1st intake interview among the other thing tarents,hobbies and their future dreams are noted for consideration. The center work with other partners to develop skills of children, every afternoon the boys with accompanied by night Baba, they went to play foot ball while girls who are very few remain at the centre with small children for basket/net/hand ball.
Wednesdays and Saturdays all children undergone acrobatic training and on Friday these children does king fu training.
« Religious Faith
This project intends to help children respecting Gods by organizing organize Babble Knowledge teaching classes in and out of the center. Despite off the center is non- region however it emphasis on Christianity.
In addition to going to church together on Sundays, we also have two “Bible clubs” during the week that all of the children attend.
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