Empowered Girls

Tanzania

Empowered Girls  

Live your dream 

Empowered Girls is dedicated to enlightening, equipping, and empowering girls in the Arusha region to thrive. Many of these girls face marginalisation due to poverty, harmful cultural practices, forced marriage, and child dowry. 

The organisation addresses these challenges through a holistic approach that includes mentorship programmes, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) education, menstrual hygiene management, and educational support. 

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Girls First Initiative

Tanzania

Girls First Initiative  

Championing and amplifying the voices of girls

The Girls First Initiative (GFI) cultivates a nurturing and empowering ecosystem for girls and young women in the Kinondoni District of the Dar es Salaam, supporting them to realize their full potential. 

Their programming includes providing access to quality education and health care, mentorship and economic strengthening programmes, safe spaces, and networking opportunities.  

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HER Initiative

Tanzania

HER Initiative 

Knowledge and awareness make a great woman 

Led by young women, HER Initiative is challenging harmful societal norms that perpetuate the cycle of poverty by empowering adolescent girls and young women across Dar es Salaam, Morogoro, Dodoma, Pwani, Mwanza, Iringa, Arusha, and Zanzibar. 

Through a combination of business skills training, financial and digital literacy courses, comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) education, and tailored empowerment and mentorship programmes, HER is equipping young women to achieve financial independence and reclaim agency over their lives. 

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Gabriella Children Rehabilitation Centre (GCRC)

Tanzania

Gabriella Children Rehabilitation Centre (GCRC)

A centre of excellence for children living with neurodevelopmental disorders

Gabriella Children Rehabilitation Centre (GCRC) was established to promote empowerment, rehabilitation and community inclusion of children and youth living with disabilities.

Located in Hai District, Kilimanjaro, GCRC provides assessments and intensive therapeutic interventions for children and youth with cognitive and physical disabilities, as well as specialized early childhood education programs. Their therapists and teachers conduct visits in homes and communities to empower families and communities to better understand their roles in supporting people living with disabilities.

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Umoja Tanzania Incorporated

Tanzania

Umoja Tanzania Incorporated

Improving the lives of young Tanzanians

Umoja empowers young people in Arusha to thrive through holistic education, good physical and mental health, and safe employment. Umoja offers a range of services to vulnerable Tanzanian youth, their families, and their communities including education and youth empowerment services, skills training, and social enterprise development.

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Malaika Kids

Tanzania

Malaika Kids

Providing a future for Tanzania’s orphans

Malaika Kids provides a positive and safe environment for vulnerable orphans where they can fully develop and grow into responsible, confident adults.

Mailaika first welcomes children to their reception home. When a family member cannot be located, the child moves into the Malaika Children’s Village in Mkuranga. The concept of the village is unique and based on a family unit that consists of a maximum of ten children who live together with a mother in a family home.    

They also support academic opportunities with many of the children going to boarding school, and young adults to vocational schools.

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Forever Angels

Tanzania

Forever Angels

All children should be raised in a loving family

Forever Angels supports orphaned, abandoned, and malnourished babies while focusing on family preservation.

Their Family Homes program serve children in Mwanza and provide short-term care in family-style homes until a permanent family is found.

They also provide life-saving nutrition to babies in their homes and empower their caregivers to care for their children and to live independently. This program was established as a way to prevent child abandonment and keep orphaned babies at home.

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