Kilimanjaro Centre for Orphans and Street Children

The Kilimanjaro Centre for Orphans and Street Children is a local orphanage just off the outskirts of Moshi, Tanzania. Kili Centre provides the basic necessities of life and previously non-existent opportunities to 71 of the estimated 300 street children in the Uru and Kibo areas of Kilimanjaro region. The free services provided by the Kili Centre include food - three hot meals per day, shelter - bathrooms, housing, and beds with blankets, mattresses, and mosquito nets, clothes - free clothes washed daily, security - walls, gates, and 24-hour protection by staff, health services - doctor's visits, necessary medication, and 24-hour care, education - for those children not in the formal education system (either because they never had the opportunity, or because they were barred for missing over a year of school), the Kili Centre provides non-formal education to bring them up to speed and prepare them to take the tests for entry into the formal education secondary schools.

Kili Centre seeks to provide a safe and nurturing environment in order to teach these children the necessary life skills that their parents and communities have failed to give them. Thus the ultimate goals of the organization are to prevent children from ending up on the streets, and to rescue and rehabilitate those children that do end up living on the streets. 

Kilimanjaro Centrefor Orphans and Street Children has a website: www.kilicentre.org.

Please note that "Kilimanjaro Centre for Orphans and Street Children" (Kilicentre) and "Kilimanjaro Orphans Centre" are two distinct centres which are both being supported by the ZARA Charity.