Annual Report StreetwiZe • Mobile School 2019

Follow-Up Tanzania • Mwema Children Centre
31/11/2019 • 7/12/2019
Joke Verreth
Mwema Children Centre
Karatu / Tanzania
Karatu is a town located close to the Serengeti
and the Ngorongoro, two major national
parks attracting a high number of tourists. The
tourism industry leads to many opportunities,
which is why children and youngsters from the
poor rural areas surrounding Karatu choose to
flee to the city, ending up on the streets. Since
2006 Mwema Children Centre has been reaching
out to these street-connected children and
youngsters. Last year the team started up their
very own mobile school project to diversify
their outreach work even more. After one year,
it was time for a follow-up visit!
Since the start-up of our collaboration, Mwema
Children Centre has attached a great deal of
importance to involving all team members in
the entire training process, to ensure the entire
Mwema team has mobile school knowhow and
everyone feels involved, a big added value!
An educator from Mwema’s partner, Falcon’s
Children Village, also took part in the entire
training week, strengthening the collaboration
between the two organisations.
timetable. All team members have many responsibilities,
which impacts their commitment to the
mobile school project and their motivation. We
therefore took the time to draw up a new intervention
schedule for the mobile school sessions
in 2020 together. The team will also assign clear
roles and responsibilities to all staff members involved,
so everbody knows what is expected of
them.
During the training week, we also looked into
counseling skills that can be applied on the
streets. The team came up with many creative
games with the Mobile School panels and designed
three new games themselves, adapted
to their local context and target groups. After the
follow-up training, the team was reenergised
and ready to hit the streets!
IMPACT
12 trained street educators
Local team strengthened and reenergised
New intervention schedule drawn up
New game ideas developed and tested out
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In general, the Mwema team is very positive
about their mobile school project and the impact
it has had so far, but it quickly became
clear that there are still some challenges.
During a coaching session, the team indicated
most of those challenges are linked to the
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