Mwanangu Development Tanzania

Mwanangu main community
Mwanangu is a charity that works with children in the curative and medical sectors. It is involved in the education and health sectors to improve the quality of education and health of children with and without special needs.
The facility is integrated into a Swahili village where community members participate in the development of the school. Located 20 minutes away from Dar es Salaam in a Coastal Region (Southern) at Vikindu Village, Mkuranga District. Tanzania.
The institution has 12 staff members; it cares for around 31 children with disabilities and 49 without disabilities, making a total of 80 children.
There is a Waldorf-inspired curative education school and a biodynamic and organic garden. Some children live temporarily in a residential home on site.
Parents of children with special needs are supported by Mwanangu Development Tanzania with income-generating anti-poverty activities. The goal is also to raise community awareness about disabilities and prevention. Income-generating activities are offered there such as clothes making,  cooking, a village community bank and a small gift store located in a tourist highway area in Pugu Hills.
At Mwanangu Development Tanzania, volunteers are assigned to where their skills are of best use. Volunteers support day-to-day activities, such as in classes, the dormitory, rehabilitation therapy, office, or agriculture.  They are also invited and encouraged to actively participate in meetings and morning circle time.
Mwanangu House of Hope in Nyegezi Mwanza
Mwanangu House of Hope is another project they have which consists of a transit home for children with hydrocephalus and spina bifida who are receiving treatment at Bugando Medical Centre. We accommodate children and their parents/caregivers before, during and after surgery. At the house, we conduct health education, home visits and outreach programmes to raise awareness of these disabilities in the community.
We also conduct rehabilitation therapies and education for the residents. We attend the clinic, major ward rounds and work. The volunteers who are planning to take a health-related career are ideal candidates for this volunteer as it involves medical interventions and health-related issues. You should be ready to work on emergency cases and support the team going back and forth to the hospital with a sick patient. We require high flexibility and dedication to work at the house of hope.
We work hand in hand with the neurosurgeons in the neurosurgery department. At the house, we provide free of charge meals and accommodation for the families of this kids families as the majority are coming from very poor families. We support these mothers in navigating through the big hospital and we translate and coordinate between patients and doctors. In a year we accommodate 300 children, and at the hospital, we serve over 1000 patients.