By Majaliwa Mbogella | Chairperson
Introduction
Children Care Development Organization (CCDO) is involved in capacity building of rural poor women and youth group and extension of Revolving fund to them. We help the poor rural communities help themselves. The overall objective of this project was to empower women to fight against poverty and HIV/AIDS and enable them involve fully in development activities to meet the millennium development goals before the year 2025. Where the specific objectives of the project was to empower women and young girls economically and educationally to enable them participate in development activities, initiate the community to advocate for support and education of girls, to increase the enrollment of girls in the school, to change the life of poor women and their families through revolving fund provision and empower their households economically.
Performed Activities
The raised money enabled us to conduct community mobilization workshop for different community members within Iringa District of Iringa Region in Tanzania and forming/strengthening harmful traditional practices avoiding committee at all levels of government structure, educational support to poor in school girls where 10 most vulnerable girls benefited school fees amounting 60$ for each student and to make the total cost to be 600$, we provided micro-credit revolving fund to 90 formed microfinance groups in each group obtained 1000$ while each group is made up with 6 women, we also formed 2 VICOBA groups which are made up with 30 members for each group and to make the total number of VICOBAs to be 60 members and each group was provided a start up capital amounting at 500$ as a revolving fund and to make the total amounting of 1000$ for all two VICOBAs groups.
Project Contribution to the Reduction of Women Unemployment Crisis
This project has contributed to reduce the women unemployment activities and now they are busy and supportive to their AIDS families’ households as result many women are coming daily at our CCDO offices to ask our services for membership application since registration for membership is free from charge. Many supported women are engaging them in different income generating activities as such handcraft tourism products, glossaries, hotels, selling old clothes, food ventures, cafe and M-PESA/ TIGO PESA / AIRTEL PESA business activities including small horticultural businesses. Therefore, the project has employed 812 women in different microfinance activities within a period of 5 months.
Achievement
The project has achieved to inspire the management of Iringa Municipality to offer free 2 plots of land for the establishment of satellite conservation centres within Iringa Municipality and 1 plot of land within Ruaha National Park. The established cultural heritage and satellite conservation centres shall be considered as a future sustainable cash flow for CCDO microfinance project since we have inspired the Government of Tanzania to assist this project of capacity building and women empowerment in Tanzania after realizing the rigidity of external donors to support us financially. We have participated in rural identification, collection and management of cultural heritage resources, we designed educational programs to raise attention to preserve the culture and conserve biodiversity in this landscape, we conducted participatory village survey to identify cultural heritage products for tourism exportation products made by CCDO microfinance groups, we provided training on hotel and hospitality management and other related entrepreneurship business skills so as to employ many women in these tourism industry sector for more jobs creation and enable them to send their girls in schools with full school kits equipment.
Challenges
Children Care Development Organization is still facing various problems that are caused due to the low level of technology based on online money donation to our project from our clients within the country, and lack of financial capital since many donors are reluctant to assist us as we are serving the group of people living with HIV/AIDS and most vulnerable children coming from their helpless and AIDS families due to their stigmatization to people living with HIV. Because many donors has shown interest to help people who are well-off and not coming from poor rural marginalized households like CCDO where we have a serious burden of having a large number of most vulnerable orphans who depend on our little resources we have for education and feeding them. It was identified that many donors are saying that they are helping poor while practically are not.
Recommendation
It was recommended that CCDO project has great impact to the transformation of community mindset from ways of doing business to modernized microfinance revolving fund towards to the poverty alleviation, job creation and HIV /AIDS prevention strategies if donors are willing to donate their funds in this project.
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