About us

The Kili Centre is located in rural Moshi, Tanzania. It was founded by Michael Mpombo in June 2006. It is a registered Non-Governmental Organisation* that provides protection and development services to orphans and street children.

The organisation runs three major programs: Residential Care, Education and Outreach.

At our Residential Care Centre, children receive services such as food, clothing, shelter, health care, guidance, adult supervision and attention throughout a day, alongside both social and psychological support. Currently Kili Centre houses 38 orphans and street children (18 girls and 20 boys between the ages of 3 to 14).

At our education program children receive either non formal education studies, nursery, primary or secondary education studies. In the future the program intends to also provide college and vocational training studies to the children. Currently for this term (January – June 2008) Kili Centre has enrolled all of its children in nursery, primary and secondary schools. Three (2 girls and 1 boy) are in secondary school, thirty-two (17 boys and 15 girls) are in primary schools and three (1 girl and 2 boys) are in nursery school.

At our Outreach program children receive services including access to residential care, trust building sessions, interviews, home visits, follow ups, street and community based health care and education, sponsorship in education costs, the addressing of factors for children’s migration to streets and referrals to other service providers within Kilimanjaro region. In this program a total number of;

• 38 children (both orphans and street children) were identified on the streets in Moshi town and in the communities of Uru and Kibosho.
• 38 comprehensive interviews were done with these children.
• 38 home visits were done to the communities of origin of these children.

* Registration number: 07NGO/1812

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Our programs

The purpose of Kili Centre is to provide protection and development services to orphans and street children in Kilimanjaro Region. In order to realize this purpose, Kili Centre had to initiate different programs (projects) that have direct relationship with this purpose for maximum positive outputs.

These programs are such as;

• Residential care program

  This program intends to provide safe place for Orphans and Street Children who have no alternative to protection services. It also intends to initiate and run incomes generating projects for food sustainability at the Residential Care Centre. (more…)

• Education program
  

  This program intends to provide education (development) services to Orphans and Street Children who have no access to education services. The targeted types of children are those on the streets, at the residential care centre and in the rural communities of Uru and Kibosho. (more…)

• Outreach program

  This program intends to work with communities in order to find out the long term solution of child vulnerability in Kilimanjaro region. In working together with communities and other interested parties on children’s matters the long term goal is to reintegrate children back to their communities of origin. (more…)

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Support Kili Centre!

You can help us

Kili Centre (Registration number: 07NGO/1812) is currently supported through donations, grants, contributions and sponsorships from various individuals and companies. All donations are greatly appreciated; together we can help make a difference in these beautiful children’s lives.

If you want to assist us financially, material and in kind, a number of options are open:

1. You can make an on-line donation with Credit Cards via Paypal. (see right)
2. You can transfer money to our bank account at Standard Chartered. (see below)
3. You can commit holistically by month or by year to our ’Sponsoring the Children at Kili Centre’ program.
4. You can Donate to a specific project of scheme.
5. You can Support a Project by donations or organising your own fundraising.
6. You can Volunteer or Contact Us in person to find out how you can help too!

At our Residential Care Centre children access food, shelter, clothing, health care, adult care, social and psychological support. You can sponsor a child to access all of the above mentioned services by providing $90 a month or $1080 a year.

Through our Education Program children access education services for their development in order later to become self reliant. You can sponsor a child to access education services by providing $75 per term or $150 a year.

Through the Outreach Program children access services such as being identified, accessed and admitted to access residential care services and reunified back to their communities of origin. Sponsor a child to access reunification services by providing $30 a month or $ 360 a year.

Money transfer instructions

If you want to assist us financially with any of our on-going programs please use the following information for your transfer.

• Bank: Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania Ltd.
• SWIFT code: SCBLTZTX
• Account No: 0102.0701.73500
• Account name: Kili Centre

All donations are greatly appreciated!

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