),
a children’s charity based in the UK, whose main work is
providing assistance to children in impoverished countries. Seeway
are providing financial support so we can rent a house and employ
full time staff.
The boys will live in the house and receive training in life
skills, social skills and basic education (maths, reading etc…).
As soon as they are ready, we will place them in local schools so
they can receive more formal education.
We have two definite boys, Fazili and Pascali, who will be
living in the house, and are still in the selection process for
the other boy – watch this space!!
Fazili
is 15 and has lived on the streets for 7 years. He ran away from
his Dar es Salaam home after his mother died - his father did not
care about Fazili or his brothers and sisters.
Pictured Left - Fazili
Fazili hitched a ride to Arusha (8 hours journey away) on a
bus, knowing that he had an aunt living in the town. He could not
find his aunt. So he started living on the streets as he had no
money and no alternative. A few weeks later Fazili came across his
aunt in town, and asked her to help him. She refused, saying he
was now a street child…he has been on the streets ever since,
but hates it and wants to go to school. We have told him he is
leaving the streets – he is very very happy.
Pascali
is 11. He is from a small town 3 hours drive away from Arusha.
Like Fazili, his mother died. His father remarried and the new
stepmother did not care for children.
Picture Right - Pascali
His father began beating
Pascali. So…he ran away to Arusha last year. His father knows he
is in Arusha but has never come to find him. Pascali too wants to
go to school. He does not want to return to his family home to
live.
The house "Dad" will be Faith Edwardi – he is a
trained school teacher and his heart is for the boys. He will be
assisted by Frida Kashe.
Faith Edwardi and Frida Kashe.
Faith and Frida, founded HFCC’s street children’s ministry,
together with Atilia Kesuko. They are looking for the right house,
and pricing furniture, as we write.
This is a very exciting step forward. We believe that by
starting small, with just 2 or 3 boys, we will gain experience
quickly, so that in a year’s time we will be ready to expand.
Thank You Seeway!!
Update
on Kanuti in Tanzania
Paskali
came to the Seeway house in Tengeru in April 2005 and is adjusting
to his new home very well. He was the second boy to be taken into
the house, but the first to stay longer than a week. Paskali comes
from a home of physical abuse. His mother left the family home;
Paskali does not know where she is living. His father works as a
driver in the village of Magugu, about 2½ hrs drive south of
Arusha. He lived with his grandparents and father. His grandmother
and father were physically abusive and so Paskali hitched a ride
to Arusha believing it is better to live on the streets than to be
beaten everyday by his family.
