1 house mama to 5 kids

fws will create a real sense of belonging for our kids by replacing the standard orphanage dorm style accommodation and allocating a house mama to every five children.

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Providing interactive & early-learning programs

Interactive learning programs will be facilitated by local teachers and carers employed by fws, and fws education volunteers. These programs will be centred around three key areas:

1. Learning about living (fostering local culture)
2. Learning to think (fostering interactive, holistic learning)
3. Learning to think together (fostering social skills)

Social skilling & leadership training

Social skills are essential for integrating with your community and for finding work…

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Vocational Training

Practical skills can make all the difference for people, regardless of whether the live in the western or majority world. Vocational training will…

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Fostering local culture

It is important to those working with fws that the kids we house in our early learning eco-friendly children's villages, not only learn about their local culture, but actually learn to live it. We will ensure Kesho kids are exposed to the cultural education they would have been, had their parents lived.

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Local staff & management

A core principle of fws is to ensure that all of our children's villages are managed and staffed by local people. We value the importance of projects in developing countries being managed at a grass-roots level, so that local people are able to contribute to and manage their own future in a way that is in-keeping with their culture.

The Aussie fws management team facilitate the building of the children's village (with local builders) and will train the local management staff to run the children's village efficiently. In doing so, we aim to sustain our local management teams and help them to reach self-sufficiency over time.

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Eco-friendly methods

fws will build and operate with minimal impact on the environment while promoting positive environmental practices in the local community.

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Healthcare programs

By providing access to health facilities for Kesho Leo orphans, fws will help prevent illness and death from Tanzania’s primary health concerns.

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Hosting volunteers

We are a small organisation, so we like (and need!) to make use of volunteers.

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Generating sustainability

For us, "sustainability" involves these four areas:

1. Organisational sustainability
2. Economic sustainability
3. Social sustainability
4. Ecological sustainability

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