Child Support Tanzania (CST)

Child Support Tanzania (CST) was founded in 2008 by Noelah Msuya, a specialist in teaching children with disabilities, to promote and facilitate education and support services to children and youth with disabilities in Tanzania. The organisation works to ensure that children with disabilities are receiving all the support services required to enable them to access quality education in an inclusive setting, with the aim to enhance the integration of children and youth with disabilities within the education system.

CST provides Early Childhood Education through the Early Childhood Assessment, Learning and Development Center (ECALD). ECALD is an inclusive early childhood development centre dedicated to providing a nurturing environment for critical early year learning and development to the most vulnerable children in Mbeya.  ECALD was founded on the belief that all children can achieve their full potential if properly nurtured and supported. ECALD now accommodates more than 100 children with disabilities.

CST is involved in a number of activities to achieve their goal of enhancing the integration of children and youth with disabilities within the education system:

  1. Provision of guidance and counselling for parents, guardians, teachers and children with disabilities as well the community at large.
  2. Provision children with disabilities the support required for them to access quality education.
  3. Provision of assistive devices to children with disabilities.
  4. Provision of teaching and learning materials for children with disabilities.
  5. Training of teachers in Special Needs Education.
  6. Training of children with disabilities in arts and crafts, sports and games, music, vocational skills etc.
  7. Mobilization and formation of clubs and recreation centres for children with disabilities.
  8. Organisation of parents of children with disabilities, the community and other stakeholders to work together with Child Support Tanzania (CST).
  9. Advocacy and lobbying for children with disabilities.
  10. Fighting for the legal rights of children with disabilities in accordance with the United Nations Convention on The Rights of Persons with Disabilities, whereby Tanzania is one of the countries to have signed in accordance.

CST’s motto is: ‘Disability is not Inability’.

For more information visit CST’s website.

To support our work with CST, please donate by clicking here or text ‘CSTZ15‘ and the amount you want to donate (e.g. £2, £5, £10) to 70070.

 

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