The ministry of health and social welfare, Social welfare
department
The objective of the social welfare
department is to provide expertise and services to people with disabilities,
families in difficult circumstances and vulnerable children.
The department formulates and reviews
policies, laws, regulations and guidelines on management of disabled,
disadvantaged children and seeking families; it manages or oversees rehabilitation
services and it counsels marriages.
The department is led by a Commissioner and has 3 Sections,
the first one of which is the People with Disabilities and Elderly Persons
Section. This
section prepares and reviews policies, acts,
regulations and guidelines for disabled and elderly person; initiates community
based rehabilitation programmes for people with disabilities; develops
and coordinates sustainable empowerment programs for people with disabilities
and the elderly; designs training programmes for
disabled persons and monitor their implementation; provides resettlement, care and maintenance for disabled persons and
elderly persons; co-ordinates and provides advisory services to associations of
disabled persons; and carries out impact study and research on various interventions to
People with Disabilities and Elderly Section.
This Section is led by an Assistant
Commissioner.
Contact information:
Permanent
Secretary
PO
Box 9083, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tel.:
+255 22 2120261/7
E-mail:
ps@moh.go.tz
The ministry of labour, youth development and sports
The
Vision of the Ministry is to have industrial harmony, health and safe working
environment; effective social welfare conditions for the people; enabling
environment for human labour deployment and; to have well brought up and
responsible youth in society.
The mission of the Ministry is to promote labour
standards, employment, social welfare and youth development as well as sports
development.
Contact
information:
Ministry of finances and economic affairs
The
Ministry of Finance aspires to achieve high and sustainable economic growth and
macro-economic stability, sound financial management and financial
accountability.
The
mission of the Ministry is to support and promote excellence in public
financial management, budgeting, and value for money; centre of excellence in
the development of fiscal policies and strategies; promotion of professionalism
and customer focused staff; and support and promotion of IT in the public
service.
Contact
information:
Ministry of education and vocational training, Special needs
education unit
Contact
information:
Permanent
Secretary
Ministy of Education and Vocational Training
P. O. Box 9121, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Telephone : +255 22 21 20403, +255 22 21 20412
Email: psmoevt@moe.go.tz
Ministy of Education and Vocational Training
P. O. Box 9121, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Telephone : +255 22 21 20403, +255 22 21 20412
Email: psmoevt@moe.go.tz
Tanzania Federation of Disabled People’s Organisations (SHIVYAWATA)
SHIVYAWATA is a non-governmental federation which was
established in 1992 and brings together nine national Disabled People’s
Organizations (DPOs). Namely:
1. Tanzania Albino Society (TAS),
2. Tanzania League of the Blind (TLB),
3. Tanzania Association of the Physically Handicap
(CHAWATA)
4. Tanzania society of the Deaf (CHAVITA)
5. Tanzania Association of the Deaf – Blind (TASODEB)
6. Tanzania Association for the Mentally Handicap (TAMH)
7. Kilimanjaro Association of Spinal cord Injuries (KASI)
8. Psoriasis Association of Tanzania (PSORATA) and
9. Tanzania Users and Survivors of Psychiatric
Organization(TUSPO)
The Federation is a mouthpiece for matters pertaining to
PWDs. The essence was to afford a larger, lauder and common voice on issues of
lobbying and advocacy.
SHIVYAWATA wishes to launch a prolonged campaign geared
toward repudiating social injustices facing disabled people through social,
economic, and political systems.
Contact information:
Mwnanyamala
Vijana, Plot No. 367
P.O
Box 42984, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tel: +255 22 2762233, Mob. +255 754698820
Email: shivyawata@yahoo.com
Information Centre on Disability (ICD)
ICD
is a non-profit making civil society organisation established by professionals with
disabilities whose ultimate objective has been researching, documenting,
publishing and broadly disseminating information pertaining to disability. It
also addressed itself to be at the forefront in advocating for rights of people
with disabilities.
Contact
information:
PO
Box 75576, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tel:
+255 22 2400227
E-mail: disabilityintanzania@gmail.com
Disabled Organisation for Legal Aid and Social Economic Development
(DOLASED)
Contact
information:
Kinondoni
Road, Opposite TX Market, Barclays Bank Kinondoni Branch, Block
570
P. O. Box 62963, Dar es Salaam ,
TANZANIA
+255 22 2667977/2667842
Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT)
CCBRT,
a Tanzanian non-governmental organisation, was established in 1994 in response
to the needs of people with disabilities in and around Dar es Salaam and the
lack of accessible services to them. It comprises two community-based rehabilitation
(CBR) programmes in Dar es Salaam and Moshi, a disability hospital, and an
active international training programme. CCBRT is the largest indigenous
provider of disability and rehabilitation services in the country, providing
quality rehabilitative services to 120,000 people with disabilities and their caregivers
each year. This includes people with: physical impairments (cerebral palsy,
congenital deformities such as clubfoot,
cleft lip/palate),
visual impairments, hearing impairments, epilepsy,
obstetric fistula.
Contact
information:
P O
Box 23310, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tel: + 255 (0) 22 260 2192
Fax: + 255 (0) 22 260 1544
Email: info@ccbrt.or.tz
Tel: + 255 (0) 22 260 2192
Fax: + 255 (0) 22 260 1544
Email: info@ccbrt.or.tz
www.ccbrt.or.tz
Tanzania Society for the Deaf (TSD)
TSD
owns and operates the Deaf Buguruni Primary School since February 1974. This is
a boarding and day school and currently has 260 students in kindergarten up to
vocational school. The school has a kindergarten, primary school grades 1-7 and
also a vocational college that is registered by (VETA). TSD owns 53 acres of
land at Mkuranga District, Coast Region The farm is used as part of the
practice of agriculture and livestock for deaf students to have life skills and
knowledge about agriculture.
Contact
information:
Tanzania
Society for the Deaf
Makao Makuu, Buguruni Malapa, behind Lake Oil Petrol station
Makao Makuu, Buguruni Malapa, behind Lake Oil Petrol station
PO
Box 4806, Dar es Salaam Tanzania
Tel:
+255 719 265 651, Director Matilda Ngonyani: +255 755 885 117
Tanzania Cheshire Foundation (TCF)
The
Miyuji Cheshire Home provides a range of services to 40 children with
intellectual disabilities, including educational and physical development. It
also incorporates a resource and information dissemination centre on early
childhood development and disability issues for parents, care givers and other
community members.
The
livelihood programme aims to lift persons with disabilities in Dodoma and its
environs out of poverty through support to sustainable livelihoods. They
receive relevant skills and business training or support for self employment
via micro-credit schemes. This is accompanied by sensitization of potential
employers in the informal and formal sectors, training institutes, local
communities and government.
Mlali
Cheshire Home, or the Kituo Cha Watoto Walemavu as it is better known in
Tanzania, provides rehabilitative services for about 100 children per year,
accommodating 40 at a time as they go through a comprehensive rehabilitation
process. The home includes a clinic, a state-of-the-art surgery, physiotherapy
rooms, a hydrotherapy pool, a school, a workshop producing mobility aids, and
boarding facilities for both residents and visitors.
Miyuji
Cheshire Home runs a community based rehabilitation project focused on early
childhood development. This includes the early identification of disabilities
and intervention and training and linking opportunities for parents of children
with disabilities. The Mlali Cheshire Home also offers many subsidised services
to local communities, from HIV/AIDS tests to dentistry work and a dispensary
service.
Contact
information:
Ms
Esther Kiondo, National Coordinator, The Tanzania Cheshire Foundation
P.O. Box 10269, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
P.O. Box 10269, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Tel/Fax:
+255 22 21 24273
Email: tanzaniacheshire@hotmail.com or emkiondo@yahoo.com
Email: tanzaniacheshire@hotmail.com or emkiondo@yahoo.com
Tanzania National Institute for the Blind (TNIB)
Contact information:
Email: tnib38@hotmail.com
Phone: +255 22 27 61605
P.O.Box 16454, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tanzania
Resource and Assessment Centre for Disabled Children (TRACED)
Background
Tanzania
Resource and Assessment Centre for Children with disabilities (TRACED) is a non
– governmental organization established by the parents of children with
disabilities and professionals in the field of education, health and community
development.
Its
target groups are cross disability children.
It
was registered under the societies Ordinance (Cap.337) in November 1996
The
goal of TRACED is to have children with disabilities who have opportunities in
the provision of early detection and intervention (EDI) programme in the
mainstream services.
Objectives of TRACED
In
pursuing the above stated goal, the organization has set the following objectives
·
To
provide proper screening and access to screening for disabilities to parents of
disabled children, especially in rural areas where access may be difficult
·
To
conduct educational assessment to children with disabilities for proper
rehabilitation and placement.
·
To
provide parental education, guidance and counseling and increase awareness on
prevention, early detection and intervention programmers to the children with
disabilities.
·
To
coordinate, cooperate and collaborate with the parent groups, government,
relevant local and international non-governmental organizations in promoting
community based rehabilitation (CBR) programmes for children with disabilities.
·
To
help parents to have easier access to assistive devices, playing, teaching and
learning material for the children with disabilities
Main activities of
TRACED
TRACED in partnership with Erikshjalpen,
Sweden is currently running the following activities:-
·
Conducting
research/ surveys on the assessment needs of parents and their children with
disabilities.
·
Conducting
parental education, guidance and counseling training on disability aspects such
as physiotherapy
·
Training
of parent resource groups, and community development, education and health
workers (interdisciplinary team) in disabilities issues and their involvement
and role in TRACED programme.
·
Promotion
of the use of local goods and materials to be used as toys, play, teaching and
learning items for the benefit of children with disabilities.
·
Support
for medication rehabilitation for children with disabilities that can be
corrected by physiotherapy, surgery such as club feet, contractures, congenital
malformations, cataract etc.
·
Supplying assistive devices such as
wheelchairs and crutches, as well as clothes to disabled children and youth,
under outreach programmes.
·
“Economic”
empowerment to parents of disabled children through revolving loan schemes so
as to enable them run small scale income generating projects to enhance their
capacity to meet the practical and strategic needs of their disabled children.
·
Networking
with Community Based Organizations (CBOs) , Non-governmental Organizations
(NGOs) and Faith Based Organizations undertaking HIV/AIDS education projects in
Dar es Salaam , Iringa and Coast regions.
Contact
information:
Headquarters
in Dar es Salaam
Executive
Secretary,
Tanzania
Resource and Assessment Centre for Children with Disabilities (TRACED),
P.O.
BOX 60021, Dar es Salaam,
Email:
traced1996@hotmail.com
Cell: +255 713 670 94
Tanzania Society for the Blind (TSB)
Contact information:
Email: info@tsb.or.tz
Phone: +255 (0)22 246 0856/8
Fax: +255 (0)22 246 0857
P.O.Box: P.O. Box
2254 Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
KITUO CHA MASUALA YA
ULEMAVU NA MWAENDELEO JUMUISHI (ZACDID)
ZACDID
ni shirika lisilo la kiserikali linalojishughulisha na mchakato maalum wenye
lengo la kuhakikisha kwamba watu wenye ulemavu wanashiriki kikamilifu kwenye
shughuli za maendeleo na wafaidike nazo.
ZACDID
inafanya shughuli zake katika visiwa vya Zanzibar.
Malengo makuu
·
Kujenga
uwezo watu wenye ulemavu katika nyanja tofauti.
·
Kujumuisha
na kushirikisha watu wenye ulemavu.
Mawasiliano:
Mkurugenzi
Mtendaji,
Kituo
cha Masuala ya Ulemavu na Maendeleo Jumuishi
S.
L. P 1731
Simu:
+255 245500847 au 07732224466
E-
mail: zacdid@yahoo.com
Zanzibar,
Tanzania.
Hon. Magret
Nkanga (MP)
Contact information:
Tel: 0787 306469
Hon. Salum
Baruani (MP)
Contact information:
Tel: 0719 662132
Hon. El Sharma
Kwegir (MP)
Contact information:
Tel: 0713 238804
Hon. Zuleha
Khamis (MP)
Contact information:
Tel: 0754/0773 929188
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