Plan Tanzania: empowering people to end the cycle of poverty

Watoto Kwanza is a famous slogan in Tanzania which means, Children Come First! It is our motto.

Plan works in six areas (click on the map on the right to view the locations), with around 28,000 children, their families and communities. 

Our work can be grouped into the following areas:

Poverty alleviation
In this program Plan supports traditional lending groups, small ventures development, career training, food safety measures and agricultural training. 

Green and clean settlements
Addressing problems of access to water and sanitation we help communities manage and improve their water and sanitation infrastructure. Environmental conservation is also a key focus of this program.

Education for all
Plan helps communities build and equip school facilities, supports teachers training, and strives to involve children and parents in decision-making.

Community based health care & child survival
Plan works with communities and district authorities to provide access to basic health care services for mothers and their children, to improve children’s health, to practice family planning and to change sexual and reproductive behaviour. 

Malezi (childrearing and guidance) 
In this program we support dialogue and meaningful communication between sponsors and sponsored children, this is facilitated through sharing children’s life experiences.

About children's lives in Tanzania

For information about chidren's lives in Tanzania, including extensive indicators, please see UNICEF's report "The State of the World's Children 2008: Child Survival" (4.3mb | 164 pages)
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