The needs of AIDS orphans are as immediate as their woman told UNICEF researchers.
searchers. "When this happened,
To provide CHILDREN with shelter, good nutrition, and
next meal and as extended as access to education,
guidance and care until the end of their adolescent
years.
Speaking to leaders of industrialized countries at the
July 2001 Group of Eight meeting in Genoa, UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealed for the
resources "to care for all whose lives have been
devastated by AIDS, particularly the orphans." The
number of AIDS orphans exceeded 13 million globally,
he noted, "and their numbers are growing."
For many children, the loss of parents brings destitution,
an end to schooling and stigmatization by family and
neighbors. Despite the mounting death toll, nearly half of
Tanzania's orphans live in
a household with one
surviving parent, usually
their mother. The high
incidence of HIV infection
within marriage, however,
means that many children soon lose both parents, and
become the responsibility of the extended family. About
40 per cent of these children are raised by grandparents,
while about 30 per cent are reared by aunts and uncles.
The consequences for the family, however, can be
devastating. One 70-year-old woman raising her 4
grandchildren told researchers that "ever since these
children were brought to me I have been suffering. I am
too old to look after them properly. I cannot cultivate ...
and the food does not last the whole year.”
It is an unbelievable act of self-sacrifice on the part of
the families because frequently it pushes them over the
edge, they have just enough for they and suddenly they
take [in] two kids.... I don't think anybody imagined the
unprecedented assault on the extended family system
which has occurred in grievously affected countries. This
is just a huge challenge.
“Our parents both died in 1995," one young Tanzanian
our relatives ran away from us. This surprised us
because, being our relatives, we thought they would
care for us.... Our parents had a big farm, but it was
taken from us so we had nowhere to grow food. My
young brothers and sisters became beggars; they would
walk from house to house asking for food."
Other children are taken in by neighbors, or find a bed in
one of Tanzania's very few orphanages or residential
facilities. For the rest, there are only the streets of
Tanzania's cities, where children, lacking adult
supervision and a stable home, survive by begging,
petty crime and getting their lunch and dinner in trash or
garbage.
So many of the kids have gone through the desperate,
traumatic ordeal of looking after a mother who literally
dies in the child's arms, they feel so abandoned. The
little ones, the 4 and 5 and 6-year-olds, with these great
big eyes, their little voices engaging you in this quiet
whispered conversation -- and you're trying to figure out
what can be done for this seemingly endless roll-call of
children. Communities try to make arrangements where
kids can spend some time together, to have one meal if
they can manage. But it's all very fragile.... Communities
are so [besieged] by the dying and the death and the
poverty, that there just isn't enough time and concern
focused on orphans, and there must be. Sometimes, it
can be emotionally overwhelming.
In the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic disease, we
promote a very strong team of highly trained, equipped
and mobilized HIV/AIDS counselors. We intend to build
more orphanages home for street children and orphans
and our work will be more specifically

To reach the orphans, and street children with the
gospel of Christ, and to minister to them in spirit, soul
and body.

To provide children with care and protection who are
socially vulnerable, domestically, forgotten, neglected,
and economically deprived.
balanced diet at all time, bread, clothing, education,
skills, and care.

To provide medical care on a consistent basis for
those, who need it irrespective of color, creed, sex,
and ethnicity.

To provide a conducive environment for these children
to discover their gifts talents, and potentials through
education, skills development and training.
(see Isaiah 58: 7, Ezek 18:7, Matt 25:35, 2 Tim 1:16, James 1:27)
PROJECT
Right now we have a project of Shammah secondary
school. Shammah is a Christian school and its Mission
is to break cycle of HIV/AIDS by ensuring that all
children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/ AIDS
receive a High-quality education. Our concern to this
project is to have a school where we can provide
children with care, protection and offering education to
children who are background poor, socially vulnerable,
domestically, forgotten, neglected, with HIV and AIDS
and economically deprived.
We put emphasis on education because it is
empowering, it gives people the knowledge, skills and
attitude to become active and productive members of
their communities. Education is a key of life and thus an
indispensable component to development.
Our project is located in Bumva Village, Segese ward,
Kahama district, Shinyanga region in Tanzania. This
area has four wards and 36 villages and all of these
villages are in the remote/rural area lacking secondary
schools, dispensaries, safe water, Library, and even
good infrastructure.
There are so many children who complete standard
seven, but only 10/100 of children who get secondary
school education, but the big numbers of these children
remain without secondary education and most of them
are girls. These children with ages of 14 to 15 years old
are encountering with many problems. Some of the
problems are sexual abuse and harassment because of
lack of education and poverty. For the reason of poverty
girls have been abused sexually in order to get money.
This is one of the biggest problems which are helping to
transmit HIV/AIDS.
Research finding has revealed that “Recent statistics on
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Aids) has
shown that a big number of uneducated, mostly girls
below the age of 16 years, have contracted the virus that
causes deadly Aids. According to the 2007-08 Tanzania
HIV/Aids and Malaria Indicator Survey (THMIS), the
percentage of primary school girls with the virus
matches that of uneducated affected women. The
statistics cites early sex and transmission from mother-
to-child as causing the situation. The survey shows a
staggering increase of affected girls with primary school
education, with a prevalence of 7.3 per cent nationally
while infection of female students in secondary schools
or higher education the figure is 4 per cent. (Info graph
HIV Prevalence by Education)”.
Our goal is to serve this group by offering them
education. TAGOF is standing on behalf of these
children who are not able to say by themselves but we
are saying on behalf. We would like to intervene early in
the lives of children in believing that education
empowers people to improve socio-economic conditions
for their families, communities, countries and future
generation. We want to give them life by ensuring them
to have hope in their future time and time again.
The project has already started, we have finished
building two school building’s walls with six classrooms
and the third building is for administration block. We do
not have enough fund for roofing and Finishing so
that the school can start operating. Our anticipation is
to finish building before December 2009; this will give us
good time to be ready to start providing quality education
to many children in January 2010
We want to prove that education is the only means to
undergo changes as Henry Steele Commage said that
“Change does not necessarily assure progress but
progress implacably requires change. Education is
essential to change; education creates both new wants
and ability to satisfy them”.
Please, would you kindly join us by making a generous
donation today? Pray and give your contribution
generously. Your offer can determine what the future of
these orphans will be, one children at a time.
There is no greater joy than bringing hope to children,
and no greater responsibility than protecting the
innocent.
Tagof is standing on behalf of these orphans because:

There are excluded, discriminated against and left to
feed for them.

They are psychologically distressed

They do not have access to education

They do not have access to basic health care, let
alone antiretroviral therapy
Please visit our website, at:
www.tagof.wordpress.com
I will continue providing updated information there.
Sincerely,
Rev Ferdinand Shideko
Founder and General Director- TAGOF
If you have any question, please feel free to contact me
directly at (presenty):
406 Greenlawn Dr # 200
Hyattsville, Maryland 20783.USA
Ph 202- 367- 3275.
Email: tagof08@gmail.com or feshideko@yahoo.com
Tanzania
Amazing Grace
Outreach Foundation
PO Box 573
Kahama, Shinyanga, Tanzania, East Africa
Dear in Jesus Christ,
Brothers and Sisters, my name is Rev Ferdinand S
Shideko, a founder and General Director of “TANZANIA
AMAZING GRACE OUTREACH FOUNDATION”
(TAGOF). Tagof was founded in 2006 and is a Tanzania
registered non- governmental organization, Non- Profit,
and Non Partisan, has been created in Tanzania to
focus on, youth development, disadvantaged children
and widows.
The main aim is to assist the marginalized sectors of the
community by providing them with relevant education
and information in order to assert their rights and seek
improvement of their living conditions with particular
emphasis on women, street children, orphans,
disabilities and HIV/AIDS victims
For over three years Tanzania Amazing Grace Outreach
Foundation (TAGOF) has provided support to Orphans,
Street children and children with HIV and AIDS.
Housing, feeding, educating and nurturing these children
is both a moral imperative and essential to Africa's
development prospects. There has to be a Herculean
effort made for these kids so we don't lose them.
Otherwise, you reap the whirlwind.... You have a society
where children haven't been to school and therefore
can't fulfill even basic jobs ... a society where a large
proportion can have anti-social instincts because their
lives will have been so hard. You have a generation of
children who will be more vulnerable to exploitation and
to disease because they won't have the same sense of
self-worth.