More about Makini

Makini is a Tanzanian NGO funded in 2010. Makini is supporting children and teenagers who live in the street of Dar es Salaam, using art activities to reach them and help them in their everyday difficulties.








Vision:     All children have their rights to protection, provision and participation full met and are empowered and respected as valuable members of their communities. 






Street Children data and findings:  
Whether it is in the family or outside family environment, a high number of Tanzanian children is suffering from abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence. The full extent of the problem is, in fact, not yet known. From the rapid assessment in Dar es salaam in 2012 shows that 3000 children were living on the streets by that time, and the number of street children keeps on increasing day after day. The head count research conducted in 2017 shows that there are 10,000 children living on the streets in the major 6 cities.
The Violence Against Children study, which was a household survey, clearly shows that child protection violations are rampant in Tanzania; one in three girls and on in seven boys have experiences sexual abuse during their childhood and almost all the children had experienced excessive physical abuse by the hands of the people they know and should be the first to protect them from any harm; parents, relatives, teachers and other in their close community. No such comprehensive survey has been conducted of children living outside a family environment, but smaller assessments indicate that the situation abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence are even higher, and especially more frequent. 

Reasons children end up on the streets:
There are different reasons to why children and youths leave their home environment and end up in labor and/or on the streets: a) a sudden drop in family income; loss of support from an adult family member due to illness, death or abandonment, b) cultural expectations (such as the idea that a boy should go to work on the streets as soon as he is able and girls in domestic service), c) desire for consumer goods, or the lure of the city, following peers,  traffickers, ignorance of dangers and risks to children and youths away from home, d) abuse, neglect and violence in the home environment. In sum it is often a combination of stressors on different causal levels that has this result. 



The Team:  





Chair person - Amina Abdallah

Executive Director of the organization - Ms Nyakwesi Silas Mujaya

Program Director - Mrs. Nyamagesa Laban

Project Supervisor - Gijs Maria De Wit

Finance Director - Mr. Magesa Japhet

Social Worker - Mr. Omari Mleche
                        - Ms. Sakina Tindu

Administrative officer - Mr. Edgar Manyama

Art trainers - Ms. Karen Harris
                      Mr. Elisha Kikoti
                      Mr. Vasco Adorati
                      Mrs. Aziza Iddi
                      Mr. Kalala Mbwembwe Mohamed
                      Mr. Jimmy Ngenzi

Outreach trainers/social workers - Mr. Emmanuel Nsyengula
                                                     - Ms. Elizabeth Massawe

Supporting trainers/ Assistant trainers - Amina Yahaya
                                                              - Mr. Abdi
                                                              - Mr Shabani
                                                              - Mr Saidi
                                                              - Ms. Zainab

Main Goal: 


There are no more children living or working on the streets in Tanzania. 

Goals of the organization:

1.    To enable the children and youth to discover and develop artistic talents
2.     Trough the practice of art  to restore their self-estime and confidence and to make them realise and believe in their future as positive actors of the society
3.     To bring basic material short term solutions in terms of food, education, health and housing
4.     Re-Create a link with families if the child agrees in order to facilitate a possible reintegration of the household







                   

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