Organization

Mwema is providing support to the most vulnerable children of Karatu Town and surroundings through the residential Centre for street children, Memkwa Education for school dropouts children and those who didn’t get a chance to school at all, basic health education for those children still living at the streets, sponsorship for those children that access to Complimentary Basic Education Tanzania (COBET), primary school, Secondary school, Vocational training, College and University to date.

Protecting and transforming most vulnerable children’s lives for a better future without street children.

• Since the founding of Mwema we helped approximately 610 children.
• Approximately a number of 480 cases have gone back to their families and continue with their normal life. Some stays at Mwema after completing their education levels. Some did not manage to stay so they run away again.
• Every year we have 3- 5 students graduating from Secondary school, an approximately 36 children have graduated from Secondary school and joined with High school, vocational training collages and University.
• 7 are at the collage, 1 at the university and 2 at vocational training.

• Integrity – To maintain the highest standard of behaviors encompassing honesty, ethics, and doing the right thing at the right time and for the right reason.
• Excellence – Belief in providing outstanding quality programmes and services to support and transform lives of most vulnerable children.
• Compassion – Dedicating ourselves to the success of others by embracing hope, love and reconciliation
• Accountability – We hold ourselves accountable to the highest level of ethical behavior and responsibility for our actions, while maintaining integrity in our performance and advocating it in public for those we serve.
• Diversity – We respect and appreciate differences in ethnicity, gender, age, physical abilities, education and religion amongst individuals of the organization.
• Teamwork – We work together, across boundaries, to meet the needs of the children and community we serve.