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The needs of AIDS orphans are as immediate as their next meal and as extended as access to education, guidance and care until the end of their adolescent years. Speaking to leaders of industrialized countries at the July 2001 Group of Eight meeting in Genoa, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealed for the resources "to care for all whose lives have been devastated by AIDS, particularly the orphans." The number of AIDS orphans exceeded 13 million globally, he noted, "and their numbers are growing." For many children, the loss of parents brings destitution, an end to schooling and stigmatization by family and neighbors. Despite the mounting death toll, nearly half of Tanzania's orphans live in a household with one surviving parent, usually their mother. The high incidence of HIV infection within marriage, however, means that many children soon lose both parents, and become the responsibility of the extended family. About 40 per cent of these children are raised by grandparents, while about 30 per cent are reared by aunts and uncles. The consequences for the family, however, can be devastating. One 70-year-old woman raising her 4 grandchildren told researchers that "ever since these children were brought to me I have been suffering. I am too old to look after them properly. I cannot cultivate ... and the food does not last the whole year.” It is an unbelievable act of self-sacrifice on the part of the families because frequently it pushes them over the edge, they have just enough for they and suddenly they take [in] two kids.... I don't think anybody imagined the unprecedented assault on the extended family system which has occurred in grievously affected countries. This is just a huge challenge. “Our parents both died in 1995," one young Tanzanian

woman told UNICEF researchers. "When this happened, our relatives ran away from us. This surprised us because, being our relatives, we thought they would care for us.... Our parents had a big farm, but it was taken from us so we had nowhere to grow food. My young brothers and sisters became beggars; they would walk from house to house asking for food." Other children are taken in by neighbors, or find a bed in one of Tanzania's very few orphanages or residential facilities. For the rest, there are only the streets of Tanzania's cities, where children, lacking adult supervision and a stable home, survive by begging, petty crime and getting their lunch and dinner in trash or garbage. So many of the kids have gone through the desperate, traumatic ordeal of looking after a mother who literally dies in the child's arms, they feel so abandoned. The little ones, the 4 and 5 and 6-year-olds, with these great big eyes, their little voices engaging you in this quiet whispered conversation -- and you're trying to figure out what can be done for this seemingly endless roll-call of children. Communities try to make arrangements where kids can spend some time together, to have one meal if they can manage. But it's all very fragile.... Communities are so [besieged] by the dying and the death and the poverty, that there just isn't enough time and concern focused on orphans, and there must be. Sometimes, it can be emotionally overwhelming. In the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic disease, we promote a very strong team of highly trained, equipped and mobilized HIV/AIDS counselors. We intend to build more orphanages home for street children and orphans and our work will be more specifically
To reach the orphans, and street children with the gospel of Christ, and to minister to them in spirit, soul and body.
To provide children with care and protection who are socially vulnerable, domestically, forgotten, neglected, and economically deprived.


To provide CHILDREN with shelter, good nutrition, and balanced diet at all time, bread, clothing, education, skills, and care.
To provide medical care on a consistent basis for those, who need it irrespective of color, creed, sex, and ethnicity.
To provide a conducive environment for these children to discover their gifts talents, and potentials through education, skills development and training. (see Isaiah 58: 7, Ezek 18:7, Matt 25:35, 2 Tim 1:16, James 1:27)

PROJECT Right now we have a project of Shammah secondary school. Shammah is a Christian school and its Mission is to break cycle of HIV/AIDS by ensuring that all children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/ AIDS receive a High-quality education. Our concern to this project is to have a school where we can provide children with care, protection and offering education to children who are background poor, socially vulnerable, domestically, forgotten, neglected, with HIV and AIDS and economically deprived. We put emphasis on education because it is empowering, it gives people the knowledge, skills and attitude to become active and productive members of their communities. Education is a key of life and thus an indispensable component to development. Our project is located in Bumva Village, Segese ward, Kahama district, Shinyanga region in Tanzania. This area has four wards and 36 villages and all of these villages are in the remote/rural area lacking secondary schools, dispensaries, safe water, Library, and even good infrastructure. There are so many children who complete standard seven, but only 10/100 of children who get secondary school education, but the big numbers of these children remain without secondary education and most of them are girls. These children with ages of 14 to 15 years old

are encountering with many problems. Some of the problems are sexual abuse and harassment because of lack of education and poverty. For the reason of poverty girls have been abused sexually in order to get money. This is one of the biggest problems which are helping to transmit HIV/AIDS.

We want to prove that education is the only means to undergo changes as Henry Steele Commage said that “Change does not necessarily assure progress but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change; education creates both new wants and ability to satisfy them”.

Research finding has revealed that “Recent statistics on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Aids) has shown that a big number of uneducated, mostly girls below the age of 16 years, have contracted the virus that causes deadly Aids. According to the 2007-08 Tanzania HIV/Aids and Malaria Indicator Survey (THMIS), the percentage of primary school girls with the virus matches that of uneducated affected women. The statistics cites early sex and transmission from motherto-child as causing the situation. The survey shows a staggering increase of affected girls with primary school education, with a prevalence of 7.3 per cent nationally while infection of female students in secondary schools or higher education the figure is 4 per cent. (Info graph HIV Prevalence by Education)”.

Please, would you kindly join us by making a generous donation today? Pray and give your contribution generously. Your offer can determine what the future of these orphans will be, one children at a time. There is no greater joy than bringing hope to children, and no greater responsibility than protecting the innocent.

Our goal is to serve this group by offering them education. TAGOF is standing on behalf of these children who are not able to say by themselves but we are saying on behalf. We would like to intervene early in the lives of children in believing that education empowers people to improve socio-economic conditions for their families, communities, countries and future generation. We want to give them life by ensuring them to have hope in their future time and time again. The project has already started, we have finished building two school building’s walls with six classrooms and the third building is for administration block. We do not have enough fund for roofing and Finishing so that the school can start operating. Our anticipation is to finish building before December 2009; this will give us good time to be ready to start providing quality education to many children in January 2010

Tagof is standing on behalf of these orphans because:
There are excluded, discriminated against and left to feed for them.
They are psychologically distressed
They do not have access to education
They do not have access to basic health care, let alone antiretroviral therapy Please visit our website, at: www.tagof.wordpress.com I will continue providing updated information there. Sincerely, Rev Ferdinand Shideko Founder and General Director- TAGOF If you have any question, please feel free to contact me directly at (presenty): 406 Greenlawn Dr # 200 Hyattsville, Maryland 20783.USA Ph 202- 367- 3275. Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Tanzania Amazing Grace Outreach Foundation PO Box 573 Kahama, Shinyanga, Tanzania, East Africa Dear in Jesus Christ, Brothers and Sisters, my name is Rev Ferdinand S Shideko, a founder and General Director of “TANZANIA AMAZING GRACE OUTREACH FOUNDATION” (TAGOF). Tagof was founded in 2006 and is a Tanzania registered non- governmental organization, Non- Profit, and Non Partisan, has been created in Tanzania to focus on, youth development, disadvantaged children and widows. The main aim is to assist the marginalized sectors of the community by providing them with relevant education and information in order to assert their rights and seek improvement of their living conditions with particular emphasis on women, street children, orphans, disabilities and HIV/AIDS victims For over three years Tanzania Amazing Grace Outreach Foundation (TAGOF) has provided support to Orphans, Street children and children with HIV and AIDS. Housing, feeding, educating and nurturing these children is both a moral imperative and essential to Africa's development prospects. There has to be a Herculean effort made for these kids so we don't lose them. Otherwise, you reap the whirlwind.... You have a society where children haven't been to school and therefore can't fulfill even basic jobs ... a society where a large proportion can have anti-social instincts because their lives will have been so hard. You have a generation of children who will be more vulnerable to exploitation and to disease because they won't have the same sense of self-worth.