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After a battle of almost two years, two young men who lived and worked on the streets were discharged from the Njiro rehabilitation center (also known as Sober houses) in Arusha on the 7th of February 2024. The group of young men at the detox center. From left to right: Hamisi, Rashidi, Kais, Mathayo and Stanley.
Four months after the start of our project ‘Watoto from the street to care: family reintegration for minors’ for the year 2023/24 we share the first thoughts of our UCS (universal civil services).
The WISE project wants to improve the capacity of the organization to implement in a persistent manner the activities which allow the children, aged 4-14 years old, hosted in Kisedet’s short term shelter Shukurani or those attending the drop-in center, to be reintegrated with their families and community after the creation of a safe environment for them.
Following the collaboration which has continued since 2015, we made another request to Agata Smeralda and once again they came to our aid.
PE’s story is a good story. It is one of many happy ending stories concerning Kisedet’s beneficiaries and today we are telling you more about him.
She continues her studies hoping in a brighter future
“Mom come, let’s eat together” is a way to understand whether they can trust me or not, by accepting their food I’m telling them I accept them as they are.
Ally Mussa AKA Meja is 24 years old, he lives in Chadulu street, Tambukareli ward in Dodoma City. The youngster had stayed at Shukurani Children home from 2011 to 2018. While he was staying at the centre, he was enrolled at Chamwino primary school from 2011 to 2015. Once completed primary education, he was enrolled at St. Gabriel Technical School …
Here we are again, narrating the brutal murder of two street kids. Last time we had debuted by using the same sentence: “here we are again?”How long do we have to write this sentence for? When will “unknown people” or the enraged crowd stop murdering street kids?Toma, 18 years old, killed in Dar es Salaam a month ago. Mwarabu, 17, …