Impact Report 2018 StreetwiZe • Mobile School

Exploration tanzania • Tamasha Vijana
14/05/2018 • 18/05/2018
Bram Van de Putte
Tamasha Vijana
Dar Es Salaam / Tanzania
Tamasha Vijana learned about the Mobile
School methodology through Fikiri Elias, a former
mobile school street worker from Tanzaniaa
who co-facilitated two expeditions in Tanzania
and Kenya in the past. TAMASHA was co-founded
in 2006 by three close friends all working
with young people. The aim of the organisation
is to secure a rightful space for young people
so they can actively contribute to the development
of their societies using participatory
and appreciative approaches. The organisation
mainly works in Tandale, a neighbourhood
in the Tanzanian capital of Dar Es Salaam.
Tamasha wants to interact and partner with
Mobile School to strengthen their VUKENI
(‘Step Up’) project, aimed at supporting
children from poor families living in a vulnerable
environment, to be able to get
education, develop their talents and use them
to support their learning and personal advancement.
In order to maximise their impact,
they partner with a local organisation called
Faraja.
Our Master Trainer Bram Van de Putte conducted
Enlarged network in Tanzania
the exploration training for the team and a
large and diverse group of volunteers in Dar Es
Salaam. The training functioned as an ideal
introduction to street work for the group of
volunteers, who are not yet active as social
92 workers on the streets of Dar Es Salaam. How-
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ever, it became clear the organisation is not yet
ready to kick-off a full time mobile school project.
Moreover, the collaboration between Tamasha
and Faraja is not solid enough yet to guarantee
an impactful and long-term mobile school project.
Therefore, there won’t be an implementation
of a mobile school with Tamasha in the coming
year.
The exploration training with Tamasha in Dar Es
Salaam was combined with the prospection of
Mwema Street Children in Karatu, in the Arusha
region of Tanzania.
IMPACT
19 people trained: 3 staff members and 16 volunteers
Qualitative introduction to street work for volunteers
Identification of new street work locations in Tandale