21 July 2008
Community care
In Magugu, as in all of the communities World Vision works with in Tanzania, the effect of HIV and AIDS is evident in the number of orphans and vulnerable children living there.
Magugu has a Community Care Coalition (CCC), which, in partnership with World Vision, oversees the care of these children. Each village in the ADP has contributed generously to a CCC account, which can be drawn on to support the orphans and vulnerable children.
At a recent meeting, CCC Chairman Imam Yasin, pointed out that ‘CCC’ sounds like ‘si sisi’, which in Swahili means, ‘it is us’.
“We are sitting down discussing how to help others (orphans and vulnerable children and people living with HIV and AIDS) but who are they really? They are our brothers, our sisters and our lovely children. So we are talking about ourselves. We can’t just sit and wait for somebody to rescue us. This is why we have gathered to form the CCC – which I would like to call ‘si sisi’,” he told his fellow coalition members.
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