Communities 1st has donated $12,100 to the Kyeema Foundation to establish the Augustine Macha Memorial Fund for the “Mama Mkubwa” program to help children in Tanzania.
The St. Alban’s Children’s Society in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania set up the Mama Mkubwa program to look after orphaned and street children in the homes of women volunteers. With the number of orphans increasing rapidly due to AIDS, building orphan care centres is not a sustainable solution.
Under the Mama Mkubwa program, children are cared for within families by the volunteer women. The Kyeema Foundation is helping these women to set up chicken raising enterprises in their backyards, so they can earn an income to buy food and other necessities for the children in their care.
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