Ace Africa works in rural East Africa helping children and their communities to lead healthier, happier and self-sufficient lives through improved food and economic security, health, wellbeing and rights awareness.
Co-funding with the ALMT allows individuals, other Trusts and Foundations, and Companies to contribute funds directly to individual, vetted and approved, project partnerships. With fifteen years of experience awarding grants and working in partnership with children’s organisations around the world, the ALMT is best placed to support you in your philanthropy.
Ace Africa counsellors provide a lifeline of support to children and their families in remote and rural areas of Arusha, Tanzania, where Ace implements its Community Development Programme. Children and their families have a harsh environment in which to develop, with 71% of households living below the poverty line and 41% living in absolute poverty. Knowledge about child rights is woefully lacking and 30% of children are involved in some form of manual or casual labour.
Ace Africa counsellors are all highly skilled and experienced. Each counsellor has the approved Government of Tanzania HIV and AIDS counselling certificate and/or is a qualified child welfare and social worker. The Child Welfare Counsellor is an instrumental member of the Ace team, i) helping provide training and support to teachers so that they can counsel children in schools as well as ii) providing direct counselling sessions at Ace Resource centres tackling important issues including poverty, gender-based violence, sexual violence, rape, and child labour. The community workers at the resource centre call Ace Counsellors whenever such a case appears and help connect the Ace Officers with community leadership before transferring the case to superior judicial bodies and the health facility.
Supported by the ALMT, the Ace Africa Child Welfare Counsellor conducts the following activities in school resource centres and the wider community setting:
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