There are an estimated 1,300,000 orphans and 437,000 street children in Tanzania. 

As a result, legally registered orphanages and children’s homes are severely overcrowded and struggling to absorb the numbers. This has led to the proliferation of unregistered establishments where vulnerable children live in squalor and are sometimes subject to exploitation and abuse.

Our Social Worker regularly meets children forced to work by unscrupulous leaders of illegal orphanages.

The Project

Kijana Kwanza is now reinventing the welfare model for orphaned and abandoned children aged 5-12 years. We have recently purchased a 1-acre plot in Shabaha District, and we will shortly start construction of a new children’s complex.