Introduction
Citizen’s Foundation for advancement of Tanzanian society is a
Non-Governmental Organization established in 2014 in Tanzania with its
headquarter office in Dar es Salaam Region.
This organization deals with matters pertaining to Women, Children,
Youth and vulnerable groups in Tanzania
such as old age people, people with
disabilities, widows and HIV victims just to mention a few in Tanzania, through
providing awareness, training, lobbying and advocacy on life skills, business
and human rights.
Vision
Builds best
society, reduce suffering, use awareness to inspire and implement solution to
economic and development crisis.
Mission
Empower
the society by providing training/support in life skills, business, human
rights, health, care and environmental conservation.
Motto
For Advancement of
Tanzanian society
Objectives
·
To organise training in life skills especially
on Income Generating Activities (IGA) for poverty eradication.
·
Training Youths within Tanzania and Outside
the Country and or assisting in looking for Education scholarship.
·
To act as a link with other Organizations to
establish suitable environment for Women, Children, Youth and vulnerable groups in Tanzania such as old age people, people with
disabilities, widows and HIV victims through provision of equipment and to promote
the use of sign languages in the community and education level for people with
deaf disabilities in the community.
·
To ensure networking with the Government and
other local and foreign organisations in order to empower the welfare of women
and Youth in Tanzania.
·
To promote the right based approach which
recognizes older people as equal people/population in the community.
·
To provide legal assistance to the vulnerable
population, women and youth , carry out research on Gender Based Violation
(GBV), legal and human rights issues, and establish programmes to overcome the
said problems.
·
To understand, carry and execute all kinds of
financial, managerial and entrepreneurship assistance.
·
To facilitate foreign researchers undertaking
studies and programmes aimed at mitigating social economic problems hindering
development and opening new opportunities for investment.
Functions/Activities
Activities
translating the association’s program into actions in the ground are
categorized into projects, campaigns and events. These projects and events are
designed to strengthen relations between members and or membership groups of
the association and other organizations. This includes
·
Trainings, seminars, workshops,
concerts and other gatherings at local and international levels
·
Publishing literature, magazines,
documentary, Television and Radio youth development programs and dissemination
of information on national and international policies relevant to members and
or program pertinent to women, children, youth, youth exchange and vulnerable group
·
Fundraising for the Organization
Programs
1.
Development of campaigns E.g. women
poverty eradication campaign
2.
Publishing magazines and news
letter
3.
Development of forums, e.g. climate
change, Drugs and HIV/AIDS, Gender issues
4.
Trainings e.g. Entrepreneurship,
leadership, employability skills, reproductive health, malaria, mother and
child
5.
Outreach programs e.g. visitations
(hospital, orphanage centre & street children centre)
6.
Study tours
7.
Exchange and knowledge sharing
programs
8.
Recruiting volunteers
(international & local volunteers)
9.
Building hostels, boreholes and
schools in rural areas
10. Donation
of books and other learning materials
