Description

Pamoja Leo works to keep children under 5 in families, prevent malnutrition, provide quality early childhood education and improve livelihoods of those that care for orphans and vulnerable children. Projects include:

  • Getting Children Home: helping children living in orphanages to go home to a family, training orphanages on reunification, adoption and fostering as well as work to trace and address the issues in biological families so children can return home safely
  • Transforming Orphanages: advocating for better practices and educate communities about the impact of institutional care and the importance of family based care, providing support, resources and promote best practices in the alternative care of children
  • Fit Person Program: educating, recruiting and supporting Fit Persons, the Tanzanian equivalent of a foster parent to care for children that are abused, abandoned or have no safe family to live with
  • Tanzanian Child Services System (TCSS): developing the first of its kind case management system that monitors children in Orphanage Care in Tanga Region and equips social workers with the data and accountability to ensure that the laws are adhered to and children are safe. They work in collaboration with the social welfare department to use this system.
Key Area(s) of Work
Adoption
Advocacy
Care Reform
Community/Social Services
Early Childhood Development
Education
Family Reintegration/Reunification
Family Strengthening/Family Preservation
Family-Based Alternative Care
Separated or Abandoned Children
Implementation
Directly
Location
Tanzania