KILIMANJARO-EASTER CHILDRENS CAMP

UVIKIUTA is a Youth development Organization that values volun teerism as a tool for sustainable development. The organization was established in 1983 to respond to the needs of young women and men to raise their living standards through developing and enhancing social and economic capacities. UVIKIUTA ’ s mission is to build communities that are self-reliant, able to address socia l and economic challenges by using available local resou rces. This is possible through providing holistic experience t hat broaden minds, expand horizons and empower young people an d their communities to realize their full potential as prod uctive, responsible and caring citizens. UVIKIUTA is one of the Founder members of Eastern African voluntary service Network (EAVS-Network), formally EAWA, Long term partner with Service Civil International (S CI), Partner with most members of ALLIANCE and NVDA. We work also very close with Various Government Departments , United Nations Volunteer Program (UNV), various local/ International higher learning institutions, No n-Government and Community based organizations.

Most schools in Tanzania have vacation on the Easter season, and during this time kids are expected to join family members for extracurricular activities, educational tours and other studies outside class rooms. However, the experience has indicated that most students do not have any structured activities that are fully involving them for personal and academic development. As a result, bad influences in the society during holiday time have affected the kids significantly since they join different peer groups and have limited supervision of their parents or guardians. This project is aiming to fill in the gap through effectively utilizing the vacation time and to allow students/kids to join structured activities which will contribute to their growth. At the same time also allow parents to focus in productive economic activities.