CELA Tanzania LTD

Unverified non-profit organisation

Center for Youth Development and Adult Education (CELA) is a community based organization based in Nyarugusu refugee camp and registered by the Ministry of Home Affairs of Tanzania under the official number: 57637.

The civil wars and conflict which broke out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1996 have been a source of many problems among refugee youths and children who managed to save their lives in western Tanzania. As a result, youths and children have been facing many risk encounters as sexual violence, STIs and HIV/AIDs and lack of employment and educational opportunities. As community ownership grew, CELA was able to expand programs to address youth apathy toward education, build discussion groups on sexual and reproductive health and what it means to live a good life in the camps, and eventually invest in vocational training programs. CELA took on these initiatives and more because of the community response and participation. Eventually, CELA volunteers turned their attention to activities and programs for supporting their own orphans and vulnerable children.

Over the past 10 years, CELA has been a grassroots beacon in the camp, working to unify people to discuss, identify, and act to address their problems together. Today, the organization is still led by volunteers and community members.

Vision :
CELA envisions a community that is free from social strife and inspires self-reliant, literate, and globally-connected individuals, despite refugee status. CELA believes that education has the power to help people in all stages of life to imagine a better world, and bring about positive change.

Our mission:
CELA aims to eradicate poverty by supporting disadvantaged children, youth and women in Tanzanian refugee camps with the educational, vocational and psychosocial tools they need to thrive, and inspire change in their own communities

Specific objectives are the following:
• Address adolescent sexual and gender based violence, including STIs so that girls can protect themselves and become respected leaders
• Carry out trainings on leadership and entrepreneurship to enable adolescent girls and boys recognize who they are; their value and position in the community
• Build a coalition of like-minded youths who will continue to sensitize fellow youths to organize in wealth production and peace building activities
• To provide orphans and vulnerable children with scholastic materials as a way to promote their active attendance at school
• To develop youth committees in which young people can learn their rights and share positive experiences

Beneficiaries:
The direct beneficiaries of their services are girl-mothers, disabled youths, albinos, orphans and vulnerable children, women caregivers and refugee youths in general.

Year established

2002

Organisation annual cash turnover (in US$ equivalent)

Less than 500,000

Participant in relevant networks

GBVNetwork based in Uganda

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Partnership types

Advocacy of global issues; Doing business with the poor; Project funding

Global issues

Children, youth and family welfare; Education and training; Gender issues; Human...show all (5)