ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION:
Wadada
Centre for Solution Focused Approach (Wadada)
is a registered vibrant young women-led nongovernmental organization founded in
2011 by Kivulini Women’s Rights Organization (www.kivulinitz.org) through its
Youth Engagement Programme aiming to empower young girls to advocate for their
own rights to live free from sexual abuse and exploitation. The word “Wadada”
means ‘sisters on solidarity’ is purposely used to indicate that the
organization aims at empowering young girls to live from sexual abuse and
exploitation.
In Tanzania, sexual abuse and exploitation among young girls is widely spread and escalating. Girls, young house maids, girls with disabilities as well as orphans have suffered sexual abuse and rape. The National Survey on Violence Against Children (VAC) in Tanzania show that VAC is so serious that at the age of 18 more than a quarter of girls (28%) have experienced sexual violence.
In Tanzania, sexual abuse and exploitation among young girls is widely spread and escalating. Girls, young house maids, girls with disabilities as well as orphans have suffered sexual abuse and rape. The National Survey on Violence Against Children (VAC) in Tanzania show that VAC is so serious that at the age of 18 more than a quarter of girls (28%) have experienced sexual violence.
Wadada
overall intention is to strengthen the capacities of young girls (in/out of school)
with appropriate knowledge and skills to defend for their human rights to live
free from sexual abuse and exploitation using “Solution Focused Approach” that
emphasizes a client/individual has a solution and abilities to direct oneself
life. As the saying goes, who wears the shoes know best where it pinches. Wadada believes that young girls know
how their situations can be improved. Therefore, they should be on the
forefront in ending it now and the future.
Other strategies that Wadada
uses include advocacy in holding the government and community accountable in
creating safe environment for girls to grow their full potential, economic
empowerment among young girls and public awareness to inform the community on
the rights of girls to live free from abuse and its consequences when their
rights are abused.
OVERALL GOAL:
WADADA CURRENT PROGRAMS
VISION:
In the community young girls are safer and growing
to their full potential free from sexual abuse and exploitation.
MISSION:
Wadada
exists to empower young girls 7 – 20 years old to advocate for their own rights
to live free from sexual abuse and exploitation through use of Solution Focused
Approach, Capacity Strengthening, Advocacy, Entrepreneurship Skills and Public
Awareness.
To strengthen the capacities of young girls age 7-20
to advocate for their own rights to live free from sexual abuse and
exploitation.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
·
To increase knowledge of the Solution
Focused Approach among young girls.
·
To equip young girls with self-defence
and protective skills, techniques and knowledge.
·
To increase health seeking behaviour
among young girls survivors of sexual abuse.
· To increase number of young girls
survivors of sexual abuse and exploitation reporting their cases to formal and
non formal institutions.
·
To advocate for policies that will keep
young girls safe in and outside of the home.
·
To increase community awareness on the
impact of sexual abuse and exploitation of young girls.
·
To provide psychosocial support among
young girls survivors of abuse and exploitation.
·
To strengthen
programming capacity of the organization
·
Girl’s Empowerment
·
Advocacy
·
Provision of services
to survivors of sexual abuse and exploitation
·
Media and communication
·
Networking and
partnership
·
Community mobilization
·
Resource mobilization
and sustainability
MAIN ACTIVITIES
· Trainings (in/out of school) on: Solution Focused Approach, defence
mechanisms, girl’s rights, constitution, conventions, laws, etc.
· Facilitating girls to acquire
entrepreneurship skill and supporting them to start small scale businesses.
· Strategic use of print, electronic media
and community dialogues to highlight the consequences of abuse and exploitation
of young girls and the need for reporting.
· Participation in international, national
and local public events to highlights the consequences of sexual abuse and
exploitation of young girls.
·
Provide psychosocial and rehabilitation
services
·
Introduction of hotline operations.
Wadada center for SFA believes that
rights are human rights and girls have to be protected especially as most
vulnerable members of the society, girls posses the capacity to overcome abuse
and exploitation based on their own strength.
Geographical coverage/location
Wadada works in the Lake Victoria Region
(Shinyanga, Mwanza, Kagera and Mara) with its office situated in Mwanza city,
Tanzania.
Beneficiaries of Wadada
Young girls, women and female who have
been sexually abused and exploited
Our stakeholders/Partners
Our stakeholders/Partners
Health
care provider, Police, Kivulini women’s Rights Organization, terre-des-hommes ch, Ant-slavery
International, Wotesawa Organization.
Our Main Strategies/Methodology is Solution Focused Approach (SFA):
The Solution Focused
Approach/methodology used to raise awareness and enable participants
across all activities to freely share personal problems, experiences and hopes,
and encourage taking of necessary steps to overcome impediments and also bring
about a change of mindset. Open discussions of cultural and gender issues will
be used to create awareness of rights.
Brief background
of Solution Focused Approach(SFA).
Our Staff
Lucy John Elias (Executive Director and Professional SFA Practitioner)
Anitha S. Dotto (Lawyer)
Christian Noah (Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and Fundraiser)
Elizabeth Mbogo (Vollunteer)
Grace Samweli (Volunteer)
GET INVOLVED:
We kindly invite people from all over the world to volunteer to our organization and share experience with us. Fund raising, Donations such as gifts and grants are also invited for helping women and young girls in Tanzania.
CONTACT US:
P.O Box 11348
Mwanza, Tanzania, East Africa
Email: wadadcenter@gmail.com
Phone: +255 754 284 723
Blog: www.wadadacentretz.blogspot.com
SFA was developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo
Kim Berg as a therapy module.They both worked mainly with African – Americans
living in very poor conditions.Their module was first developed for counseling.
SFA is an approach that focus on
facilitating, prompting and supporting the individual in recognizing her/his strength
and abilities. It is based on assumption that ‘client is an Expert’, SFA focus
on strength that individual have. (That means focus on the things that people
are already doing well, also SFA focus on doing
level. This means focus on the person’s behavior.
A core belief is that feelings and thoughts are always related to the things an
individual does. When we are asking about doing we are asking about behavior
that we can actually see and describe.
SFA is based on the expertise of the client. It is interested in things which worked out well for the person and
encourage her/him to do more of what works.
SFA does not give advice to individual. Instead it empowers and encourages people to
use their resources and do more of what worked. While Expertise is the
knowledge and skills that we have that come out of our own experience and learning
about our lives.
SF-mindset
‘‘Show me and I will not remember,
Tell me and I will forget
Involve me and I will understand’’
Red
Indian Wisdom
SF Mindset is a way of thinking about things. It
includes our attitudes to life. People working with SFA are convinced that
everybody has resources to make her/ his life better.
The core
assumptions of SFA are:
-If it is not broken, don’t fix it.
-If something is working, do more of it.
-If it is not working, do something different.
-Small steps can lead to large changes
-The solution is not necessarily directly
related to the problem.
-No problem happens all the time. There are
always expectations that can be utilized.
-The future is both created and negotiable
Our Staff
Lucy John Elias (Executive Director and Professional SFA Practitioner)
Anitha S. Dotto (Lawyer)
Christian Noah (Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and Fundraiser)
Elizabeth Mbogo (Vollunteer)
Grace Samweli (Volunteer)
GET INVOLVED:
We kindly invite people from all over the world to volunteer to our organization and share experience with us. Fund raising, Donations such as gifts and grants are also invited for helping women and young girls in Tanzania.
CONTACT US:
P.O Box 11348
Mwanza, Tanzania, East Africa
Email: wadadcenter@gmail.com
Phone: +255 754 284 723
Blog: www.wadadacentretz.blogspot.com