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Health InitiativesTanzania ecoVolunteerism (TeV) believes in rural health improvements through accessing clean water, good sanitation and this can be achieved through a community participatory approach. Solid waste disposal and sanitation aspects face a challenge; a collective effort in planning service delivery is required to cover also in areas of proper hygiene and sanitation behaviours, as well as water source management.Rain is the earth's predominant source of fresh water and rainwater harvesting has an important role to play in access to safe water for all. Rainwater harvesting is a very significant entry point for poverty alleviation,sustainable development and for integrated management of water resources and one of the key solutions for safe water for all. Lack of water has many negative social, health and economic consequences. Rural communities use a lot of labour and time looking for water. The productive potential of these poor rural households and particularly women and children is reduced by the energy and time spent collecting water. The outbreak of malaria, typhoid, diarrhoea etc., is predictable, treatable and curable - but lack of preparation by health personnel is our crime. It is simply the culture of ineptitude that has permeated the entire civil service. More telling, however, is the current preoccupation with HIV/Aids to the exclusion of other killer diseases. NGO's and government officials are locked in costly seminars on HIV/Aids and condom use at the expense of other curable diseases. AIDS pandemic is still in its early stages relative to other regions in the country and the levels of orphan hood seen elsewhere is yet to be experienced in Tanga Region. As the number of infected and affected people grows and the capacity of government’s health and social services becomes more strained, the burden of care and support for children is largely taken on by extended families, small non-government organisations, community organisations and volunteers that characteristically need human and other material resources. In promotion of community based systems of child support and care as well as mitigating the over-burdening and impoverishment of the elderly, women and girls who have taken on the brunt of caring for the sick, the dying and the orphaned the issue of providing support and building capacity for those giving care and support to children is essential. Volunteer Placement in Health Interventions: MalariaMWISHO Tuzungumze HIV/Aids
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Programme Costs & Dates HIV / Aids
(2) those who are in socially and economically difficult circumstances that make them vulnerable to HIV&AIDS infection. For the purposes of the programme emphasis, interventions will focus on both groups. It is recognised that the number of children orphaned by HIV&AIDS is increasing and at the same time has attracted little attention to date. The number of orphans has and will have a significant influence on society. A large part of our new generation will come from an unstable family structure, have received less education, have less means to live from and will be traumatised by the fact of having lost one or two parents, which will have an impact on the social and economical aspect of our society. Children infected and/or affected by HIV&AIDS are at particular risk of having their rights violated. Because of stigma and lack of resources both people infected, as those affected by HIV&AIDS are not receiving the attention, information and counseling they should, cutting short the time of people who are giving care to children. Large numbers of children are losing their caregivers to HIV&AIDS, placing additional and unsustainable burdens on the extended family and community support systems. At present, the burden of caring for large numbers of young children falls largely on the elderly, the women and girls. Moreover,there is an increase in the number of “child headed households”, a phenomenon believed by many to be the result of over extension of the “traditional” social safety net and its inability to provide care and support to all vulnerable children. And there is a particular vulnerability of children who are living with, and frequently caring for, sick adults. It is clear therefore that the rights of children affected by HIV&AIDS - with or without adult caregivers - are violated in a number of different ways, often as a consequence of their lack of access to basic health and social services. Key role play in TeV’s children’s rights arena is the most significant challenges facing children, i.e. poverty, child abuse and violence, HIV&AIDS and a lack of access to services. Poverty hinders access to education.
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