Orphaned and abandoned special needs children in the TUMAINI CENTRE HOME are provided with care and protection to ensure their physical and mental development, ensuring that they are empowered to become as self-reliant as possible.

These include children with special needs suffering from various forms of disability, from Down’s syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, and Autism to Thalassemia, etc. Friends of Karansi (FOK) provides coaching support to these children, through which they learn tailored life skills, preparing them to be placed in families or other organizations where their holistic development is ensured.

Friends of Karansi (FOK) are supporting by giving them nutritional food, good hygiene, and a nice place to sleep for those who are staying at the hostel.

Please join us in giving them new hope for a better future!

Refers to harmful acts directed at an individual based on their gender. It is rooted in gender inequality, the abuse of power, and harmful norms. Gender-based violence (GBV) is a serious violation of human rights and a life-threatening health and protection issue.

GBV is violence directed against a person because of that person’s gender or violence that affects persons of a particular gender disproportionately.

Violence against women is understood as a violation of human rights and a form of discrimination against women and shall mean all acts of gender-based violence that result in or are likely to result in

• Physical harm,
• Sexual harm,
• Psychological,
• Or economic harm
• Or suffering to women.

In Tanzania, GBV is widespread; the most recent Tanzania and Demographic Health Survey (TDHS) found that 44% of ever-married women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from an intimate partner in their lifetime.

It can include violence against women, domestic violence against women, men or children living in the same domestic unit. Although women and girls are the main victims of GBV,  it also causes severe harm to families and communities.

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. It violates women’s bodies and often damages their sexuality, mental health, well-being, and participation in their community.

It may even lead to death. Today, more than 200 million girls and women alive worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation. At least 500,000 women living in the EU have undergone FGM.

Immediate complications can include:

• Severe pain
• Excessive bleeding (hemorrhage)
• Genital tissue swelling
• Fever
• Infections e.g., tetanus
• Urinary problems
• Wound healing problems
• Injury to surrounding genital tissue
• Shock

Long-term complications can include:

• Urinary problems (painful urination, urinary tract infections);
• Vaginal problems (discharge, itching, bacterial vaginosis and other infections);
• Menstrual problems (painful menstruations, difficulty in passing menstrual blood, etc.);
• Scar tissue and keloid;
• Sexual problems (pain during intercourse, decreased satisfaction, etc.);
• Increased risk of childbirth complications (difficult delivery, excessive bleeding, cesarean section, need to resuscitate the baby, etc.) and newborn deaths;
• Need for later surgeries: for example, the sealing or narrowing of the vaginal opening (Type 3) may lead to the practice of cutting open the sealed vagina later to allow for sexual intercourse and childbirth (deinfibulation). Sometimes genital tissue is stitched again several times, including after childbirth, hence the woman goes through repeated opening and closing procedures, further increasing both immediate and long-term risks;
• Psychological problems (depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, low self-esteem, etc.);

Friends of Karansi (FOK) are frequently conducting various seminars in society so as to eradicate gender-based violence (GBV).

Friends of Karansi (FOK) aim to eradicate gender-based violence (GBV) by:

• Conduct seminars to educate society about the effects of Gender-based violence
• To advocate various stakeholders to support the elimination of gender-based violence
• To support girls by giving them better education
• To advocate laws that help child protection.

Friends of Karansi non-governmental organization, which aims to impact society and the world at large through intensive training and capacity building.  Also to raise and prepare youth to be tomorrow’s leaders who will be patriotic and wise use national resources.

Leadership aims to be a center of leadership excellence, raising the dreams and carrier development and prepare today and future leaders, train the youth, and empowering women to reveal their dreams into reality while meeting quality and standards in the work environment.

Objectives of the training and seminars

1. To train the youth to a leader  who will make  the right decision  in their leadership
2. To trains, leaders to acquire  the  right  skills for their leadership
3. To motivate and challenge the youth and women to come up with Ideas for self-employment
4. To prepare the youth that they conquer their obstacles and make the dreams come true.
5. To empower women through entrepreneurship skills
6. To be a link youth and women with various parastatals and enable them to raise them in terms of loans e.tc
7. To train youth to be patriotic in their nations by using natural resources ineffective and an efficient way.
8. To train to be wise in selection of courses of their future that will enable them to fulfill their dreams.
9. To train women in society to become self-reliant and support their families through entrepreneurship.
10. To train employees in various companies that they may in their carriers development.

How we conduct our training and meet the targeted groups;

• Through small entrepreneurship groups
• Through seminars in schools, colleges, churches, etc.

Environmental awareness is to understand the fragility of our environment and the importance of its protection. Promoting environmental awareness is an easy way to become an environmental steward and participate in creating a brighter future for our children.

Environmental protection is the practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, organizations, and governments. Its objectives are to conserve natural resources and the existing natural environment and, where possible, repair damage and reverse trends.

Safety hygiene includes personal hygiene, safe handling of food, preventing cross-contamination, cleaning procedures, allergen control, safe storage of food, and cooking temperatures. Implementing appropriate food management systems. This refers to the overarching system that keeps food and the premises safe and hygienic.

The following are the ways Friends of Karansi (FOK) do to protect the environment;

• To educate society on how to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Cut down on what you throw away. Follow the three “R’s” to conserve natural resources and landfill space.
• Volunteering for cleanups in the community.
• Educating the importance and value of our natural resources.
• Conserve water. The less water you use, the less runoff and wastewater that eventually end up in the ocean.
• Shop wisely. Buy less plastic and bring a reusable shopping bag.
• Planting trees. Trees provide food and oxygen. They help save energy, clean the air, and help combat climate change.
• Don’t send chemicals into our waterways. Choose non-toxic chemicals in the home and office.
• Building good toilets
• Practicing zero-grazing by avoiding keeping many cattle which causes soil erosion.

For safety and personal hygiene, we help the community by;

• Training the use of hand Sanitizers
• Set up a Schedule of cleanness hand and body
• Clean of Windows
• Set Up a Garbage Disposal System
• Ensure areas around the environment are Cleaned.
• Provide clean air by making sizable windows to allow fresh air in and out.

HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that attacks the body’s immune system. If HIV is not treated, it can lead to AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome).

There is currently no effective cure. Once people get HIV, they have it for life.

But with proper medical care, HIV can be controlled. People with HIV who get effective HIV treatment can live long, healthy lives and protect their partners.

In Tanzania, over 1 million adults live with HIV and over 2 million children have been orphaned by the virus. The country also suffers from a severe shortage of health workers—there are only three trained health professionals for every 10,000 people. This means that many who are HIV-positive go undiagnosed and untreated.