Text Box: OUR PARTNERS Text Box: Nyamagana Watoto AIDS Outreach (NWAO) is a Registered Non-Governmental and Non-profit making Organisation. It deals primarily with the care and upbringing of People Living with HIV and AIDS, especially orphans within Tanzania. Since its establishment in 2003, NWAO has been carrying out it’s work by means of contributions from the founder members and occasionally via Donor funding agencies and the government. Text Box: Vision: Women, Children and the Youth are empowered with knowledge and skills that enable them to generate an active and effective voice with which to influence sustainable change within their communities. Text Box: Mission: To work within local communities in a bid to facilitate the participatory process that shall empower women, children and the youth with the knowledge and skills necessary for progress and better living standards. Text Box: “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt- Text Box: Nyamagana Watoto AIDS Outreach (NWAO) Text Box: Vision: A community free from illiteracy and ignorance in which orphans and destitute youths’ rights are respected and upheld.

DEFESCO is a registered non-governmental organization based in Mwanza, Tanzania that has been in operation since the year 2003. It was founded by a group of professional teachers along with other people who had a similar vision.  We provide services to orphans, disabled and destitute children who are in secondary schools, high schools and colleges.

 

Currently the centre supports approximately 100 beneficiaries of whom 60 are girls 40 are boys. The youth come to the centre before and after school hours because students in Tanzania attend school in two shifts - some in the morning and others in the afternoon.  DEFESCO provide them with supplementary education (focusing on math, the sciences, geography and English), tuition, school materials, counseling, etc. to the extent that their funds allow.  Currently their funding is derived from a handful of students who are able to pay for supplementary education.

Text Box: Development of Free Education Service Centres for Orphans (DEFESCO)

Mission:

 

DEFESCO is committed to empowering orphans and destitute youth through striving towards academic excellence so that they are able to compete equally in society and eventually be able to contribute positively to the development of Tanzania and the world.  We also want our beneficiaries to be able to face the challenges of life and grow into responsible, generous, loving and industrious adults.

Text Box: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference” -Robert Frost, 1920-