THE HISANI PROGRAM

FREDNAND FREDRICK
P.O. BOX 1817
MWANZA - TANZANIA
brighttz@yahoo.co.uk

NMB Bank account No. 6590000076 Mwanza - Tanzania

Hisani’s main focus is the support of children whose parents have died from HIV/AIDS. In the Mwanza Region, there are many children who have no one to look after them after the death of their parents. These children are forced onto the streets, where they collect rotten food and beg to survive. On the streets, they no longer possess the right of being treated when they get sick, of obtaining an education, or of sleeping under a roof on a full stomach. Hisani provides orphans and street children with these basic rights. At the orphanage, children are taught how to read, write, garden, work with wood, and play sports. They are given a chance at a better life!

The orphanage currently supports 90 boys and girls between the ages of 2 and 16. Of these, 38 live at the orphanage, and the rest live with grandparents or other people in the local community who are willing to provide them with shelter. When funding is available, support is also provided to other orphans in the districts of Kamanga, a village about 50 miles from Mwanza by road, and Karagwe, a community on the western side of Lake Victoria. Due to a recent food shortage, orphans in Karagwe are not receiving the support they need from the community. Therefore, the orphanage has recently accepted 12 children from Karagwe who were living alone without access to food or medicine. There are still 42 more children in these same conditions that Hisani had to turn down due to lack of space. Currently, money is being raised to fund a 3-room addition to the orphanage so that these children can also have a home.

Besides giving the children clothes, food, and shelter, Hisani provides supplementary lessons at the orphanage for its children as well as children in the community. International volunteers teach classes in English, mathematics, social studies and science twice a day. As a result of these classes, the children score better on their national examinations than their peers. Hisani hopes to put an end to the poverty cycle by seeing that all of its children attend secondary school or vocational training.