ORGANISATION PROGRAMS and ACTIVITIES

Community Based Rehabilitation
The objective of the Program is to reduce the disability effects impairments of
the handicapped to enable them to live a normal life with their parents,
relatives and other members of the community.
But out of More than 700 disabled identified by EMFERD, over 95% live in
rural areas where NGOs and Institutions caring for disabled are very few.
Majority of disabled comes from very poor families where malnutrition and
ignorance have high prevalence.
However EMFERD provides Basic support to identified disabled through home
visits, family counseling, and medical care and referral services
6.2 The care of homeless orphan disabled
Its objectives is to make sure that the homeless orphans disabled are given
right to live and cared and given necessary care
Public Awareness Raising
There is a negative attitude of the community towards the disabled persons
and the public especially in rural remote areas is not very much aware of the
disabled problems. The objective of the program is to create a greater public
awareness on disabled persons rights and needs and also to carry out
campaign education on the prevention of HIV/AIDS pandemic among infected
and affected people with disability and their families. The disability occurrence
is also associated to prevalence of HIV/AIDS and STD diseases
Girls Education
The objective of this program is to Facilitate Secondary, Primary and
vocational education to girls from very poor families having disabled children
and who later will assist in providing services to the disabled. The EMFERD
through Friends pays school fees, boarding costs and learning materials to 20
girls from poor families getting Secondary, Primary and vocational education
while assisting in service delivery to the disabled children in the centre.
Income Generating Activities.
(Beekeeping, Poultry, Piggery and Handcrafts Projects.)
Financial constraints are the biggest problem leading to unfulfilled objectives
and uncompleted projects in the areas of health care, education and CBR, the
problems are negatively influenced by lack of funds. EMFERD is too donor
dependant 89% of the EMFERD funding came from donor organizations and
individuals from in and outside Tanzania. In order for EMFERD to develop and
expand its activities in sustainable way, it is imperative that should
increasingly contribute more from its income generating ventures towards
financing its programme activities.
The Foundation owns 10 acres of farmland, some 80 kms northwards from
Morogoro town. The farm is meant for Beekeeping project for the
Foundations income generation. Also there are beekeeping projects for
groups of parent having children with disabilities.