Kind Heart Africa’s first centre was established under
Rev. Pannasekara in Dar es Salaam and registered with the Ministry of Home Affairs, bearing registration number SO 15751 as of 08th February 2008.
The Kind Heart Africa Organisation have been working in Tanzania since 1998 and this project brings together the synergy of two Buddhist Monks whose ministry supports some of the most excluded and invisible children in Tanzania. Tanzania faces the challenge of vulnerable children, a prospect that has become an alarmingly common sight in cities around the world. This country began to see the problem of vulnerable children in difficult circumstances in the late 1980’s. At the same time, Convention Rights of Children (1990) came into force.
Kind Heart Africa was founded in line with these Conventions. There are now some 3000-5000 vulnerable children in Dar es Salaam and Kind Heart Africa believe that all children fundamentally have the right to a happy, healthy and safe childhood.
Global and National Development Policies disenfranchised the poor, spawning years of poverty alleviation strategies that have not touched the rural farmer, which represents 80% of Tanzania’s population. Their children began migrating in the thousands to all the towns across the county. Some families are unemployed or are involved in unreliable income earning activities. These parents cannot afford to send their children to school or they do not send them because they need their services at home. Also, many children run away from their homes, because they have been victims of violence and abuse, by-products of crushing poverty.
Street life violates the dignity of the children and negatively affects their physical, mental, emotional, moral and overall well-being. Full time street children experience great difficulties in their daily life including hunger, lack of shelter, sickness and police harassment. In these harsh conditions the children use drugs, get involved in criminal activities and engage themselves in prostitution. "Survival sex" with adults provides the children with food and shelter and unprotected sex leads down the road to HIV/AIDS deaths.
Rev Pannasekara has been working with boys’ education for the past 13 years and Kind Heart Africa was founded to empower young boys to realize their human rights within the Community and the Tanzanian reality today. He has been working with Street Children for the past 10 years addressing the Tanzanian Government to the plight of children forced on the streets due to growing poverty rural heightened by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
The Kind Heart Africa Centre is dedicated to empowering vulnerable children aged between 3 -17 years who have expressed the will to realize their potential and become self-reliant by mobilising resources and advocating for children’s rights.
Rev. Pannasekara in Dar es Salaam and registered with the Ministry of Home Affairs, bearing registration number SO 15751 as of 08th February 2008.
The Kind Heart Africa Organisation have been working in Tanzania since 1998 and this project brings together the synergy of two Buddhist Monks whose ministry supports some of the most excluded and invisible children in Tanzania. Tanzania faces the challenge of vulnerable children, a prospect that has become an alarmingly common sight in cities around the world. This country began to see the problem of vulnerable children in difficult circumstances in the late 1980’s. At the same time, Convention Rights of Children (1990) came into force.
Kind Heart Africa was founded in line with these Conventions. There are now some 3000-5000 vulnerable children in Dar es Salaam and Kind Heart Africa believe that all children fundamentally have the right to a happy, healthy and safe childhood.
Global and National Development Policies disenfranchised the poor, spawning years of poverty alleviation strategies that have not touched the rural farmer, which represents 80% of Tanzania’s population. Their children began migrating in the thousands to all the towns across the county. Some families are unemployed or are involved in unreliable income earning activities. These parents cannot afford to send their children to school or they do not send them because they need their services at home. Also, many children run away from their homes, because they have been victims of violence and abuse, by-products of crushing poverty.
Street life violates the dignity of the children and negatively affects their physical, mental, emotional, moral and overall well-being. Full time street children experience great difficulties in their daily life including hunger, lack of shelter, sickness and police harassment. In these harsh conditions the children use drugs, get involved in criminal activities and engage themselves in prostitution. "Survival sex" with adults provides the children with food and shelter and unprotected sex leads down the road to HIV/AIDS deaths.
Rev Pannasekara has been working with boys’ education for the past 13 years and Kind Heart Africa was founded to empower young boys to realize their human rights within the Community and the Tanzanian reality today. He has been working with Street Children for the past 10 years addressing the Tanzanian Government to the plight of children forced on the streets due to growing poverty rural heightened by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
The Kind Heart Africa Centre is dedicated to empowering vulnerable children aged between 3 -17 years who have expressed the will to realize their potential and become self-reliant by mobilising resources and advocating for children’s rights.
A School for 100 Street Children in Tanzania ( we can only look after 30 at the moment )
and our mission is this :
To establish well-being and equality for all vulnerable children in Tanzania who can make learn to make the right decisions for their lives today and in future.
To become the leading centre in Tanzania that provides material support and a safe, secure and happy environment for vulnerable children.
Engaging the children in different social and educational activities thus keeping them from risky environment and behaviours.
The centre is aimed to serve the children of Dar es Salaam and also the neighbouring regions of Tanzania.
The initiative will be one of its kind in the area and will set an example to the Building Capacity projects in focusing on rural areas too.
All the vulnerable children residing in Tanzania are expected to benefit from this initiative.
The main purpose of the Organization is to take care of orphans and vulnerable children, empower them by providing education and vocational training to make them useful members of society.
To establish well-being and equality for all vulnerable children in Tanzania who can make learn to make the right decisions for their lives today and in future.
To become the leading centre in Tanzania that provides material support and a safe, secure and happy environment for vulnerable children.
Engaging the children in different social and educational activities thus keeping them from risky environment and behaviours.
The centre is aimed to serve the children of Dar es Salaam and also the neighbouring regions of Tanzania.
The initiative will be one of its kind in the area and will set an example to the Building Capacity projects in focusing on rural areas too.
All the vulnerable children residing in Tanzania are expected to benefit from this initiative.
The main purpose of the Organization is to take care of orphans and vulnerable children, empower them by providing education and vocational training to make them useful members of society.
www.pannasekara.com
kindheartafrica@gmail.com or revpannasekara@yahoo.com
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