Books & Organizations
TANZANIA ORGANIZATIONS

·Amani Children’s Home
A home for orphans and street children in Moshi. The Home provides accommodation, food, medical, and social services for boys and girls in the Kilimanjaro Region.
http://www.amanikids.org/

·College of African Wildlife Management—Mweka
A post-secondary institution near Moshi offering short courses and diplomas in wildlife management. Its mission is to provide a diverse range of practical wildlife management training services and to conduct research on wildlife and community conservation.
http://www.mweka-wildlife.ac.tz

·Environmental, Human Rights Care and Gender Organization (Envirocare)
A non-governmental human rights organization based in Moshi. Its mission is to provide human rights and environmental education and advocacy, especially for women.
http://www.usaid.gov/wid/activities/sgptanz.htm

·HakiElimu (Educational Rights)
An advocacy organization for educational rights in Tanzania. Based in Dar es Salaam, HakiElimu engages in a wide range of activities designed to promote equity, quality, human rights and democracy in education.
http://www.hakielimu.org/first.asp

·International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Based in Arusha, this is the United Nations criminal trial for Rwandans accused of orchestrating the 1994 genocide.
http://www.ictr.org

International School Moshi
A boarding and day school established in 1969 as part of the global International School network. The school accepts children between the ages of 3 -19 and offers a limited number of scholarships to Tanzanian students.
http://www.ismoshi.org/

·Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC)
The primary referral hospital in northern Tanzania. It is a Christian institution designed to promote healing, research, and teaching in a number of medical fields.
http://www.kcmc.ac.tz/

Kilimanjaro Porters Assistance Project
This program is part of the International Mountain Explorers Connection, which seeks to promote connections between travelers to mountain regions and the people living in nearby communities. This particular project carries out a host of projects aimed at educating travelers climbing Mount Kilimanjaro about the lives of the porters and their communities. Karen Valenti is the contact person (karen@mountainexplorers.org).
http://www.mountainexplorers.org/

·Kilimanjaro Women’s Group against AIDS (KIWAKKUKI)
A non-governmental organization started by women in the town of Moshi to address the AIDS crisis. Its mission is to sensitize and educate the community in the Kilimanjaro Region and to facilitate the provision of services to those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
http://www.hiv-informanten.com/kiwakkuki/unofficial/

·Maarifa ni Ufunguo (Knowledge is the Key)
A non-governmental organization based in Arusha that promotes educational research, policy reform, and national development.
http://www.ufunguo.org/

·Mwereni Primary School (Unit for Blind and Visually Impaired Children)
P.O. Box 10242
Moshi, Tanzania
Headmaster: Mr. Damas Urenge (dkimoso@yahoo.com)
The program for blind and visually impaired children has benefited from the support of the Achilles Track Club http://www.achillestrackclub.org/kilamanjaro/index.html

·Mkombozi Centre for Street Children
A school and home for male street children in the Kilimanjaro Region. The Centre provides accommodation, education, food, and health care, as well as community outreach and re-integration programs.
http://www.mkombozi.org

·Mkombozi Vocational Training Centre
A vocational training school and community education centre in Moshi. Its goal is to provide training in a number of vocational fields, especially for women seeking post-primary education. The Centre also supports the Mkombozi Youth Group that uses drama and music to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and the TAHEA (Tanzania Home Economics Association) micro-enterprise booth near the Moshi Police Station.
http://www.dumaexplorer.com/mkombozi.shtml.

·Qoheleth Foundation Tanzania
A Christian non-governmental organization based in Moshi. Its mission is to encourage sustainable development and employment for rural youth in the Kilimanjaro Region. Members are engaged in teaching youth to build low-cost block homes, and they have built a model home for AIDS orphans in the Moshi Municipality.
P.O. Box 6436, Moshi, Tanzania
Executive Director: Mr. E. Muhubiri (qft2000@yahoo.com)

·Tanzania Education Network/Mtandao wa Elimu Tanzania (TEN/MET)
An umbrella non-governmental organization based in Dar es Salaam. Its mission is to link educational actors and initiatives so as to bring about improvements in the education sector.
P.O. Box 13547
Dar es Salaam
Coordinator: Stephen Maina (tenmet@africaonline.co.tz)

· Tanzania Environmental Action Association
An independent non-governmental, non-religious, and non-political organization with its headquarters in the Mbokomu ward of the Moshi Rural District. Its aims are to educate people about the importance of the environment, to prepare seedlings and reforest areas around Mount Kilimanjaro, to conserve water sources and soil, and to participate directly in matters of environmental protection.
P.O. Box 8098, Moshi, Tanzania
Fax: 0255-27-2751113

·Tanzania On-line
A good source of statistics and current government policies.
http://www.tzonline.org

Teachers for East Africa Alumni

A non-profit organization whose objectives are to support education in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania; to further communicate among alumni; and to gather, maintain, create, and disseminate expertise and archival material pertaining to the original mission and activities of Teachers for East Africa.

http://cs.gmu.edu/~henryh/TEAA/