Grant Support  for Our Capacity Building and Revolving Fund to AIDS Women Families.

Children Care Development Organisation (CCDO) is looking a partnership for the new designed project to empower Iringa youngsters and destitute women coming from poor families. CCDO is involved in capacity building of rural poor women and youth group and extension of Revolving fund to them. We help the poor rural communities help themselves. Our mission is to empower and improve the poor people’s opportunities to access skills and revolving fund to eradicate the root causes of poverty on local communities so as to enable them attain self-reliance sustainability through setting up their individual viable/profitable micro business to generate income for their families. Formal credit institutions e.g. commercial bank deem these rural poor women credit risks because they lack collateral consequently they have no access to the business loan to help their self employed activities grow. We plan to provide services to poor, low income women especially rural clients lacking access to other financial institution. So we have a distinct commitment to reaching the poor.

The youngsters in Iringa have got economic and social problems. The economic problem is lack of employment opportunities. Even though youth population is dominant in the town, there are no enough jobs to absorb them and there is very high unemployment. As a result the youth do involve in illegal activities such as theft, gangsters, kidnapping and so on to sustain their lives. Common social problems are lack of recreation or entertainment centers, inadequate social facilities (health, education, and housing), etc. The lack of micro credit soft loans provision and recreation center has led to engagement of youth in bad habits such as chewing chat (local stimulant plant) and drinking alcohol.

In the study made by youth, sport and culture department of Iringa region 75% of the youth indicated that the reason for problems caused by youth in the town is lack of soft loans provision and entertainment centers for them. The same study also shows that 66.7% the youth spend their time chewing chat, as there is no place for recreation. In the study 75% of the youth indicated that establishment of youth center could alleviate the problems of the above-mentioned bad habits.

To observe the problems of youth one can easily go to the streets of Iringa and observe the army of youth wondering joblessly. In every streets of Iringa it is common to see them in a very large number crowding the streets without any work .If these are mobilized in organized manner, they can really bring about great change in their lives and in the society. Youth at present is being scorched by HIV/AIDS. In Iringa town the report from Iringa Government Hospital indicates that the pandemic is as high as -11%. Besides 64% of the hospital HIV/AIDS patients occupy beds. The youth are one of the prime victims of the pandemic. Thus it is essential to act as soon as possible to reverse the deteriorating situation of the youth at least to maintain the sustenance of our generation. Their potentials could be used for the development of the nation if attention is paid to them. They could also contribute to attainment of our development agenda that we are hoping to attain. Recognizing this, we do present this proposal to the development partners to fund this project so that the youth can contribute to the betterment of their own life and of the community.

However, to solve the problem above, the CCDO management has already launched a new project of supporting those groups living with poverty and underemployment and to start with we already formed 67 women groups and each group is made up with 6 people’s and to make the total of 620 CCDO Women SACCOs members. Each group has its leaders, but due to the financial constraints to afford to meet all needs of this formed groups we request any humanitarian to support those members so as to promote their living standards in order to let them to afford to pay school fees to their school most vulnerable children. Again, the selected youth in this project are those considered as the headed families in their homes and all of them are under 16 years old. For financial help contact us by email:  childrencareorg1@gmail.com