Happy Children Tanzania

About us

Happy Children Tanzania was founded by Maria Makombe since 2012 but was officially registered by the National NGOs Coordination Board in the year 2013.
Happy Children Tanzania exists to provide sound advocacy on children rights through; education; and empowerment programs for the most vulnerable children country wide without phasing out the outreach and support programs to their less privileged caretakers as our indirect beneficiaries.

Mission
To collaborate with all stakeholders locally and internationally to develop, promote and provide integrated children protection services, through accessible, sustainable and empowering programs for their improved quality of life.

Our goal is to nurture children becoming responsible members of the community that enables them to fully enjoy their rights.

Objectives
• To empower children's and women's matters related to healthcare by using preventative healthcare measures from the grassroots concepts.
• To advocate on policies, laws, strategies and outdated cultural believes and norms that undermine children's and women's rights.
• To raise awareness to the community on issues related to the rights of children in accessing healthcare services.
• To provide trainings to families in rural areas on issues related to family planning and early childhood development.
• To raise awareness to the community on issues concerning climate change particularly on how to adapt to climate changes in collective responsibility between men and women.

Activities include:
• Providing humanitarian aid to disadvantaged groups widows inclusively, the service consists of; distribution of food hampers, cloths and school fees for orphans
• Raising the level of awareness and sensitivity of orphan hood, vulnerability and widow hood
• Creating awareness of orphans & vulnerable children rights and conducting sensitization on the widows justice at the community level
• Developing programs proposals to attract funding to finance social welfare programs

Projects
• Construction of Children’s Health Center
• Micro-finance project
• Street children project
• Poverty reduction and entrepreneurship
• Irrigation farming project
• Small-scale business project

Zainabu Makombe is the Director of Happy Children Tanzania.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.