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DEVELOPMENT PARTNER PROFILE
NGO
ORA Tajikistan (Orphans, Refugees, and Aid)
Contact: Ms. Katja Bittel
Ora Tajikistan Country Director
Tel: 227-46-10, 221-64-42 Fax: 221-64-42
E-mail: oradush@securenym.net
Website:
Organization Profile
Orphan, Refugees and Aid (ORA) is an international NGO working in over thirty countries in Asia, Africa, South America and Eastern
Europe. ORA was founded in Germany in 1981. From the beginning ORA's mandate has been to assist vulnerable groups of children,
refugees, and the poor worldwide. ORA encourages development towards self sufficiency. ORA Tajikistan was established in 1992 and is
focused in two general program areas: Children’s Welfare and Advocacy Education/ Capacity-Building in Social Work and Family Medicine
Training.
Past and Current Programmes
ORA has projects in the following 7 program areas: Social Worker Training and Field Supervision, Child Sponsorship, Kulob Youth Center,
Family Practice Medical Education, Drugs and AIDS, Community Integration of Disabled Children, and Dushanbe Youth Clubs. ORA’s
project staff come from Australia, Finland, Germany, Malaysia, the Netherlabds, Nigeria, South Korea, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and
the United States of America. The activities of Ora Tajikistan in 2007 were funded by ORA Austria, ORA Germany, Stichting ORA
Netherlands, ORA New Zealand, ORA Switzerland, the British Embassy Dushanbe, Christoffel Blinden Mission (Germany), CMS (UK),
E.O. Metterdaad (Holland), HealthProm, Heart to Heart U.S., Presbyterian Church (USA), Tearfund(UK) and USAID. ORA has been
focusing on the problems of children separated from families, orphans and the disabled. To address the needs of the poor in regard to access to
quality and cost-effective health services, ORA takes a leading role in the clinical training of family practice physician trainers through the
ZdravPlus health reform program; in Social Worker training; and in the integration of disabled children as well as training for their families.
Ora Tajikistan's primary governmental partner are the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection. In 2007 ORA
continued or started the following work: course for preparing Social Workers, a project in cooperation with Ministry of Labor and Social
Protection; Education of Doctors in Family Medicine in cooperation with the ZdravPlus project is on-going; ORA Disabilities Project started
in June 2003; ORA Disabilities added a new partnership with the Ministry of Health; ORA Kulob Community Youth Center started in Sept.
2003; ORA Dushanbe Community Youth Clubs started in Nov. 2003; ORA Child Sponsorship for 300 social orphans started in 1993; ORA
Drug and AIDS Project (DAP) continued with Drug and Aids training; Limited food and non-food aid for School-Internats.
Future Programming Direction
Community-based rehabilitation for disabled children and their families in cooperation with the MLSP and MOH; Continued capacitybuilding
in the deinstitutionalization of children in residential State care in cooperation with the MLSP, UNICEF, and the National
Commission for Child Protection Clinical training for family practice physician trainers in cooperation with ZDRV PLUS and the MOH
Continuation of long-term ORA projects in Sponsorship, Youth, Drug Education.
Source: Aid Coordination and Project Monitoring System Database
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