Empower people, Transform the community
Disciples Community envisions a community with an improved standard of living enjoying equal rights for both women and children.
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Success Stories
Women Headed Household Program: Meeting Widows and Orphan Needs
on 19 February Disciples Community team visited Mapinga wards in Bagamoyo District in Pwani Region to support Tausi a Widowed mother, this is part of
Empowering Form Four Leavers through Academic and Career Guidance
The journey beyond secondary school can be both exciting and daunting for Form Four leavers. To ease this transition, Disciples Community prepared a transformative Academic
School Bag Distribution Program
The School Bag Distribution Program, initiated by Disciples Community to support vulnerable children in Tegeta Community, successfully provided school bags to 15 deserving children. The
Disciples Community Restores Hope and Education for 131 Children in Flood-Affected
The recent floods in Tegeta, Dar es Salaam, brought devastation that swept away more than just homes and belongings. For many children, the floodwaters washed
Disciples Community Food Assistance Delivered to Tegeta Community Affected with Floods
In the aftermath of the recent floods that struck Tegeta ward in Dar es Salaam, The floods, which resulted in the loss of two lives,
Disciples Fashion Project: Empowering Women and Youth Resilience through Entrepreneurship
Disciples Fashion Project dedicated to ensuring that youth are not just equipped with skills but are knowledgeable, motivated, and confident in accessing markets. With a
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Who we are?
Disciples Community is a non-governmental organization based in Dar es salaam as its headquarters, founded and registered in 2022 under the NGO Act No. 24/2002 with registration number 00NGO/R/2887.
what we do
Challenges we are Tackling
Poverty
Poverty entails more than the lack of income and productive resources to ensure sustainable livelihoods. . Its manifestations include hunger and malnutrition, limited access to education and other basic services, social discrimination and exclusion, as well as the lack of participation in decision-making.
Gender based violence (GBV)
Violence against women is now well recognized as a public health problem and human rights violation of worldwide significance, many women lack their rights, or fail to afford to pay for their service to claim their rights. Women may suffer isolation, inability to work, loss of wages, lack of participation in regular activities and limited ability to care for themselves and their children, depression, increases the likelihood of miscarriage, stillbirth, pre-term delivery and low birth weight babies.
Exclusion
Women and children are often denied rights, opportunities, and resources that are available to others, based on a variety of factors, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, socioeconomic status, and age. Exclusion has life long impacts on a child’s cognitive and physical development, affects child’s ability to learn in school, fight disease, a child’s self-esteem and self-confidence and a child’s lifelong economic success.
Youth unemployment
Unemployed youth are likely to commit crimes as they are unable to afford their daily expenses, they increase dependency on social grants, lead to youth’s mental health indirectly and increases the economic costs for the country.
