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East Africa

Partners

The Terre des Hommes Netherlands Regional Office East Africa cooperates with local autonomous project partner organisations. These project partners are legally registered local organisations with their own vision and mission and strategic plans. The project partners are developing their individual projects in collaboration with Terre des Hommes Netherlands.

  • Anglican Church of Tanzania (ACT) Mara

    The Community Based Rehabilitation, Mara (CBR-Mara) project started in 2001 and operates under the ACT (Anglican Church of Tanzania) Mara Diocese. The CBR services aim to improve social economic services for people with disabilities (PWDs). The Anglican Church envisions the spiritual and physical development of the people in Mara Region. CBR Mara programme aims to assist people with disabilities to live a better life and be respected members of the community (hence reducing the negative impact of disability). Activities under CBR Mara include: public meetings with village leaders, monthly home visits, weekly physiotherapy, clubfoot, orthopaedic clinics, provision of appropriate prosthesis (appliances), surgery and occupational therapy to the PWDs and refer clients.

  • Caritas Masaka Diocesan Development Organisation (MADDO)

    Masaka Diocesan Development Organisation (MADDO) is a Church organisation charged with spearheading development work and social service delivery in the Diocese of Masaka, Uganda. Caritas MADDO was initiated in 1981 after the 1979 war, to meet the material needs of individuals impoverished by the war. This was done through supply of relief items that included: food, clothing, drugs, scholastic materials and tuition fees. In 1988, the organisation was expanded to incorporate development work. Since then Caritas MADDO has run several programmes in the sectors of Rural Development, Management of Natural Resources and Human Rights which are established through rural participatory community appraisal. In 1992 the organisation further stretched out its activities to include care and support for orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC) affected by HIV/AIDS.

  • Flying Medical Service (FMS)

    FMS aims to improve access and quality of health care in Northern Tanzania. Specifically
    1. To improve access to health care for the people in the target areas regardless of ethnic origins, religious affiliation or ability to pay;
    2. To improve and help to up-date the level and quality of health care in these remote places.
    FMS started operations in October 1983, after AMREF could no longer offer services to Northern Tanzania in 1977 when the border between Kenya and Tanzania was closed for political reasons. Flying Medical Service (FMS) is registered in the US as a non-profit corporation, with tax exemption for its planes. Airplanes have an American registration. The American registration provides benefits that help to keep cost of operation low. The organisation is also registered under the Tanzania Civil Aviation authority and the Ministry of Health.
    FMS works under the aegis of the Spiritan Missionaries and the Diocese of Arusha.

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  • Gender Violence Recovery Centre, Nairobi Women's Hospital

    The Nairobi Women's Hospital, a private hospital located in Nairobi, Kenya specialized in the medical treatment of women, launched in 2001 a unit 'Gender Violence Recovery Centre' to offer immediate medical management and psychosocial support to all survivors of sexual and domestic violence while facilitating a positive change in behaviour and national policies regarding sexual and domestic violence.

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  • Iganga Islamic Medical Center (IIMC)

    Iganga Islamic Medical Centre (IIMC) is fully registered and implementing government health programs including: Immunization, Antenatal services, HIV/AIDS care and Reproductive Health Education, among others. Out-patients and In-patients services are offered at the medical centre. IIMC is addressing reproductive health in Iganga district, Uganda, an area with a large young population and high prevalence of early marriage.

  • Kampala School for the Physically Handicapped

    Kampala School for the Physically Handicapped (KSPH) is a boarding school, located in Mengo area of Kampala city, near Mengo hospital. Officially, it is dubbed school for physically handicapped but it mainly takes in children with cerebral palsy/mental handicap and related conditions. The school is national in outreach; it receives children from anywhere in the Republic of Uganda. KSPH was founded by Uganda Spastics Society in 1968 first as a special class in Mengo Primary School. In 1969, the Government of Uganda donated three and half acres of land to the Society. This is the present day home of the school.

  • Livelihoods Development Initiatives (LIDI) - Uganda

    LIDI-Uganda is non-profit organisation formerly called Kigulu Development Group (KDG) that was established in 1991. It is a membership organisation based in Iganga with 87 active members at present. Membership consists of organisations, community groups, institutions and individuals who make significant contribution to LIDI as an organisation. LIDI-Uganda's aim is to improve people's livelihoods in the communities with emphasis on school children and youths including persons with disabilities (PWDs), women and the rural poor in general.

  • Mbiuni Catholic Mission

    St Mary's Rehabilitation Centre was initiated by father Jose Kallely of the Catholic mission Mbiuni in 2002. St. Mary's Rehabilitation Centre is a grass root organisation based in a rural remote area of Machakos, Kenya; it is the only institution of its kind in the area and admits many disabled children from the locality as well as other parts of the country. The institution has adequate physical infrastructure, dormitories, kitchen, farm and classrooms for special education and vocational training for physically and mentally challenged children. Community awareness activities are widespread and have led to increased acceptance and support to Children With Disabilities (CWDs).
    The general aim of the organisation is to provide an opportunity rather than sympathy to the challenged children. Other objectives:
    1. To give proper education, medical care, protection, food and accommodation to the physically, mentally and multiple challenged children.
    2. To send them back home after having enabled them with self-employment skills.
    3. To give their parents a bit of consolation from the burden of caring for these challenged children.
    4. To give the community a chance to perform their responsibility.
    5. To develop the community through the project e.g. job creation.

  • Nairobits

    Nairobits was started in 1999 by three Dutch professionals. Nairobits' main objective is to provide youth from marginalised communities with marketable skills to enable them enter the labour market. Since inception, the programme thrust of Nairobits has been in social and IT skills. The training program incorporates entrepreneurship skills, life skills and reproductive health. To date Nairobits has trained in excess of 3,000 students at various levels in ICT. Through the entrepreneurship program 300 have benefited while another 50 have set up their own businesses. Some of the accomplishments that Nairobits is proud about includes in 2006 recognition  for innovatively using technology to solve problems in the developing world (Top 30 Development Gateway Award 2006). Nairobits has recorded monumental success in the number of students acquiring internships and jobs in the formal market. Out of the students that Nairobits Trust has trained in the media lab so far, all have been placed in jobs or internships.

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  • Platform for Labour Action (PLA)

    Platform for Labour Action (PLA) was founded in 2000 by a group of women activists to promote the human rights of vulnerable, marginalised and undocumented workers in Uganda majority of who are women, youth and children in both the formal and informal sectors. These include child and adult domestic workers, food vendors, transport service providers, garage workers, bakery and fuel pump attendants, construction workers, security guards, plantation workers, water vendors amongst others. PLA targets vulnerable, marginalised, and undocumented female and child workers in the informal sector to promote and protect their labour and legal rights, and empower them to realise their full potential in society in partnership with communities, local leaders, government, and other CBOs/NGOs.

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  • Ruben Centre

    Ruben Centre is a charitable organization managed by the Congregation of the Christian Brothers. Their mission in Ruben Centre is to assist the residents of Mukuru kwa Ruben slums in Nairobi, Kenya who live in situations of apathy and neglect. Ruben Centre is a charity organization and assists in alleviating the problems associated with poverty and unemployment. The Centre works with the youth, children and women groups. There is also a great deal of cooperation with other charity oriented NGOs in the area of provision of Health and HIV/AIDS prevention. Ruben Centre therefore takes an initiative through helping the residents to participate effectively in their own transformation.

  • Ruma AIDS Programme

    Ruma Women Development (Ruma AIDS) is an umbrella organization in Ruma, Kenya, comprising of twelve affiliated women groups. Ruma AIDS started as a self-help group initiated by women who intended to improve their household income through small-scale businesses and horticultural farming to enhance the food security in the area. In 1994 Ruma AIDS Programme was initiated with the aim to bring about positive change in the lives of households affected by HIV/AIDS as one of the components in the fight against the impacts of HIV/AIDS.

  • St Elizabeth Girls Home

    St Elizabeth Girls Home started in 1998 to cater for vulnerable girls in Kampala, Uganda. It is owned by Kampala Arch-Diocese and run by the Congregation of the Good Samaritan Sisters. The Home's key activity is the rescue, rehabilitation and training of street and orphan/destitute girls. The Home aims at achieving the following objectives:
    • To impart life-sustaining skills to the vulnerable girls (street and orphans) through vocational skills training
    • To provide counselling and psycho-social support to orphans and street children
    • Re-settling empowered children with their guardian/parents and on jobs
    • Promote the initiation of simple income generating projects to enhance household incomes.

  • The Mater Hospital

    The Mater Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya is a charitable trust and a registered not-for-profit organization founded in 1962 by the Sisters of Mercy a Catholic order of sisters from Ireland. The Hospital's mission is to deliver timely and compassionate medical services to patients and their families to the highest possible standard through the provision of qualified staff, equipment, facilities and continuous motivational and training programmes. Emphasis is placed on the provision of affordable medical care to all Kenyans with compassionate and professional nursing care including the provision of cardiovascular treatment and care for all including needy children and youngsters below 18 years.

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  • The Uganda Association of Women Lawyers (FIDA)

    FIDA (U) is a voluntary, non-government, non-profit making and non- partisan organisation. As a human rights advocate FIDA (U) promotes and protects the rights of the vulnerable. FIDA (U) was founded in 1974 by a group of women lawyers in Uganda with the primary aim of providing a forum for discussing legal and social issues that affect women. FIDA (U) is a membership organisation with about 350 women lawyers. FIDA (U) mission is to empower vulnerable groups especially women and children to achieve social justice by working for equality and equity under the law. This has been through the various legal aid programmes which form the core activity, legal education and awareness, research and advocacy and information, education and documentation.

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  • Women’s Rights Awareness Programme (WRAP)

    WRAP provides a 24-hour emergency shelter, which is a safe refuge for violated women and children in Kenya. WRAP offers psychosocial support services such as counseling, mediation, re-integration, resettlement, and referral for victims of violence. WRAP also addresses Gender Based Violence (GBV) and child abuse through community education, advocacy, and research.
    WRAP's vision is to have a society free of GBV that protects and promotes the rights of children and women. The organisation seeks to:
    • To provide secure shelter and other related support services to abused and violated women and their children
    • To promote and protect women's and children's rights through advocacy and awareness creation on child abuse and GBV;
    • To research on and educate the community on the causes and effects of gender violence and child abuse and sustainable community-owned intervention strategies

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