Help me volunteer as a Womens Shelter Activist!

Abigail-Rose Mundy Start Date: Jul 17, 2019 - End Date: Apr 16, 2020
  • Arusha, Tanzania

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by: Abigail-Rose Mundy Start Date: Jul 17, 2019 - End Date: Apr 16, 2020
"Poverty and violence work in cycles, spreading from one generation to the next. If a girl does not have access to education, she will be at high risk of both poverty and violence throughout her life. Her children will be less likely to be educated and so will also be at high risk for poverty, homelessness and violence throughout their lives. But if that girl gets educated, she will have many more opportunities for a healthy and successful life, and she will teach and empower the next generation. We can break the cycle will break with education."

The Pippi House Foundation was founded in 2011 by Aristides Nshange, who saw a great need to care for homeless girls and young women and their children. It is the only safe house for girls in the region. The foundation runs a women’s shelter, where more than 50 girls and women between the ages of twelve and twenty-six are being taken care of together with their children and babies. They are all given the opportunity to get an education. The girls and women came to the shelter to escape poverty, homelessness and other dangerous living conditions. Many of the inhabitants were forced in nonconscensual, child marriages, were victims of human trafficking, domestic violence and physical and/or sexual abuse. All girls and young mothers can get medical assistance, counselling, and advocacy at Pippi house. The main goal is that all girls will go to school, finish their education and start vocational training to enable them to build an independant and successful future for themselves and their families. 

The Pippi House Foundation Objectives

1. To reduce the number of girls at risk of living on the streets in the Arusha region and those from other regions in Tanzania.

2. To promote children’s rights and the welfare of young girls as advocated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, African charter and the Child Law of Tanzania of 2009.

3. To educate the girls, families and their communities about health matters such as safe sex, the impact of HIV/AIDs and to reduce the incidence of transmission for both girls and others.

4. To respond to the educational needs of girls at Pippi House and those from the identified families at risk of living on the street.

5. To provide protection services for street involved girls in Arusha at Pippi House. This includes food, shelter, clothing, health care, love and time.

6. To use a participatory and an innovative approach to build capacity in the local communities. By helping the community to understand and deal with the issues that hinder girls development. We aim to implement a positive change in attitudes towards girls in our local communities.

7. To reduce the number of uneducated girls who have become victims of forced labour. We will fulfill their human right to an education and enable them to become self reliant and confident in using their productive new skills.
  • Arusha, Tanzania