The ChildCare Program
The ChildCare Program is another program that Twiga Vision Tanzania designed to provide support to marginalized children. With this program we reach children from difficulty life backgrounds in order to provide them with the support they need for their current and future life.
In order for us to effeciently provide the support we identified areas in which we could give the support.
Areas of Intervention:
🔹 Day Care Services
🔹 Health care
🔹 Educational sponsorship
Day Care Services
A parent approaches us asking for sponsorship.
In 2016 Daniphord, established a Daycare center called KHM, which was a separate legal entity. Since kindergarten and Daycare are not government funded, parents have to pay if they want their children to have some education before they start primary school. This leads to inequality since some children start school and know how to read, write and do simple mathematics while others don’t have that opportunity. This is where Daniphord wanted to step in and help children from less fortune families break through the cycle of poverty. Because of the great need of the services, they had to open a branch of the Daycare centre (another day care centre nearby) to fully meet the needs of the service. The new Daycare centre was then named Unique Choice Daycare Centre, although later KHM Daycare was closed by the authorities, which left us with only Unique Choice Daycare Centre. Although the fees charged by the Daycare centre are relatively low, some parents are still unable to afford it, and this is when sponsorship program became a necessity.
Educational Sponsorship
Our sponsorship program is a sub-program of the ChildCare Program and it is one of key programs at Twiga Vision Tanzania. This is due to the fact that this program has had directly and/or indirectly impacted on many children’s lives in the surrounding communities. This program was designed to help children from marginalized communities to get an education. Our main target is children whose parents can’t afford sending their children to school or have sent the children to school but struggle to pay for the children’s school needs. A child is sponsored through a daycare centre until when they turn 5+. Then they go to a government school until when they turn 16 years of age. When they complete their lower-secondary education, then, it becomes the choice of the sponsor whether to continue sponsoring the child into higher education/vocational training or not.
The sponsorship covers the:
- Meals at school
- Lessons provided at school
- Conducive learning environment
- Exercise books and pens
- School study tours
- Full school uniforms
- Health insurances