The project -- funded by the US President’s
Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar), through the Arusha-based World
Education (WEI/Bantwana) since 2010 -- has reached about 9,000 orphans
and vulnerable children in the city out of targeted 10,000.
According to the Pasadit Project coordinator
Stanislaus Ndihoreye, the approach of the project now focuses on
tracking capacity building and advocacy without any direct support to
the victims.
“This has posed a big challenge to the programme
as those victims who were directly benefiting from it, including those
in secondary schools, now don’t access to that support, causing many
calls from the victims,” said Ndihoreye.
The Pasadit project started in 2002 as a
church-based HIV/Aids committee in response to a call for a
multi-sectoral approach to the fight against the disease by former
President Benjamin Mkapa.
Pasadit work was implemented, from 2007 to 2009,
under Catholic Relief Services but received a boost from 2010 to date
through implementation of the project as Pamoja Tuwalee project.
Mr Ndihoreye mentioned other challenges as
increasing number of vulnerable children saying that although Pasadit
and other development partners have been investing a lot in terms of
resources on programmes, the challenge is still big.
“HIV/Aids prevalence rate in the country is still high so necessary efforts are needed to scale it down,” he said.
The other challenge has been cited as funding
sources, Mr Ndihoreye said, explaining that the organisation depends
much on external funding thus making it difficult to expand and meet all
the necessary expectations.
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