By Majaliwa Mbogella | Chairperson
Children Care Development Organization (CCDO) project of “Capacity Building and Empowerment Project to Tanzanian women was aimed at empowering, building and increasing the capacity of economically active poor women and youth by providing them with training is business and management skills and providing them with the Revolving Fund. The Community Based Women Empowerment project focused on identifying women's needs and problems, and how they are reflected on there lives as well as the lives of their families and children. Women's groups have been formed in which they are provided with the funds.
Since we joined with GlobalGiving, we worked to mobilize rural Tanzanian women’s living with HIV/AIDS and those who are coming in poor marginalized families by giving hope through introduction of entrepreneurial knowledge transfer and skills based on their identified small business needs as such selling tomatoes, onions, making soaps, groceries shops, vegetables, food venture, garners and environmental cleaning around Iringa municipality, tailoring, making handcraft goods for tourist coming at Ruaha National Park, Mkwawa Museums, Kalenga and Isimila site.
The training involved practical skills on how to reduce women poverty through practical entrepreneur training based on business management skills, leadership skills, micro-credit scheme and revolving fund provision where loans are offered for 5% interest just to make them to satisfy their households needs and let them to send their orphans at school but equipped with school scholastic school materials in order to help them to study in conducive environment for their studies well-being.
The project managed to train women to escape from prostitution business as their sources of earning income through increasing women’s awareness on good governance and project management skills.
On 08 June, 2013 we invited the Minister of Community Development, Gender and Children honourable Sophia Simba (MP)of the United Republic of Tanzania to come to launch our project of increasing women awareness on good governance in Tanzania where she promised to be the Organization Patron and to work to support fund for our project of capacity building and women empowerment in Tanzania while the Executive Director of Iringa Municipal she also promised to support fund for the development of this project since our CCDO women are real entitled in this needy but we lack financial support from donors.
The Minister Sophia Simba (MP) promised to work to promote our products made by our CCDO women by inviting us to attend for international exhibition marketing within and outside of our nation. She suggested that women should be more vocal to raise their issues and present their problems in getting access to market and finance. She said, in order to succeed in entrepreneurship development an entrepreneur needs a mentor. She emphasized for building networks.
She used her time to thank the management of Global Giving Organization through their openness in doing their activities in terms of transparency in helping poorest communities living under poverty and hunger and enable them to empower economically and socially. The recorded DVD about this statement will be sent to you after completion of report compilation.
We also managed to form 86 women groups and each group consists of 8 women and to make a total of 688 women members of our organization.
Achievement
Children Care Development Organization has managed to promote our image and networking with our Government. The Government is real appreciate our roles and responsibilities of supporting Tanzanian misery children and women’s in practical sense and our work is recognized by the community itself and our friends who supported us as such EuropaBook, World Computer Exchange, Computers 4 Africa, Government, African Women Development Fund (AWDF). This is because every work we do, we make a report with attached vivid examples as such TV Scripts, TV documentary, and DVD for openness and transparency.
We managed to lobby our Government to establish Children Tourist hotel centers at Ruaha National Park and Kitulo National Park within Iringa and Njombe Regions of Tanzania with partnership from Tumaini University at Iringa, Iringa Regional Commissioner’s Office, Iringa Municipal Council, University of Goettingen from Germany, National Museum of Tanzania, and Germany University under European Union Development Fund support through the project of “Cultural Heritage Conservation, Tourism and Sustainable Development in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania” where the CCDO Will support the development and implementation of community training programmes. Provides expertise in community outreach and empowerment including the management of artisan group formation and cultural tourism micro-credit programme and to promote entrepreneurial knowledge transfer to all local communities around those National Parks and provide soft loans to marginalized communities so as to fight with their poverty in practical sense and be able to promote their local technology, local made products, and protect their sources of water. Therefore, your support to us in this stage is highly appreciated and reorganized.
Challenges
We still face various challenges due to the lack of enough capital to afford to assist of all our members since on April we worked to sensitize the local community we work with to raise money and they accepted our campaign. Income tax was reported as the challenge to us in compared to our previous expectation we had before.
Request
The CCDO management is still request the management of Global Giving Organization to take our challenge as an opportunity to consider by giving us a start up capital so as to enable us to meet our objectives of reducing poverty to our poorest marginalized Tanzanian women’s living with HIV/AIDS and ignorance through practical entrepreneurial capacity building, revolving soft loans provision, and empowerment training and knowledge transfer. Such money can assist us to conduct training, provide revolving fund, and workshops.
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