Mwedo Girls Secondary School
Who We Are:
Maasai Women Development Organization (MWEDO) is a not-governmental women-led organization established in the year 2000. MWEDO empowers women to enhance sustainable equitable and human development for Maasai women through access to Education, Women Economic Empowerment and maternal health and HIV/AIDS education. MWEDO is a membership organization with over 5,000 grassroots women members from Arusha and Manyara regions of Tanzania.
Our Vision
MWEDO envisions “Improved sustainable Livelihood of Maasai Women in Tanzania
Our Mission
Maasai women Development Organization (MWEDO) aims to empower Maasai women economically and socially through improved Access to education, Health services, Enterprise development and through promotion of human and cultural rights.
Our Story
MWEDO was initiated by three maasai women founders Ndinini Kimesera Sikar, Maria Kaheta and Josephine Gabriel Simon. Through experiences of their own struggles, the three founders decided to support other marginalized women to access their rights to education, health and economical rights. In 1999 when the organization was initiated, Maasai women from northern part of Tanzania gathered in Monduli, a district in Arusha region, to voice their issues regarding gender disparities, violation of human rights, and lack of education for their children including insufficient health services within their communities. In 2000, and for the very first time,
MWEDO HEALTH CENTRE
The overall goal is to promote access to health services amongst Maasai community through designing and implementing relevant health programmes on HIV/AIDS awareness, preventive measures and home-based care for those infected and reducing children mortality rate amongst the Maasai community.
Many poor people, children and women in particular pastoralists communitiea, die without ever accessing a health facility. Equitable and sustained access to care, support and treatment are essential to improve the well–being and life expectancy of people living with HIV and AIDS, but issues pertaining to finances, infrastructure, human, and logistical weaknesses need to be resolved first, so as not to further weaken an already constrained health system.
MWEDO Intervenes to decline the proportion of births attended by trained medical personnel, the continued poor nutritional status of under fives, and the fact that almost close to 90 percent of all child deaths are due to preventable causes – malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea, malnutrition and complications of low birth weight; and to HIV and AIDS.
The key obstacles include long distances to health facilities, inadequate and unaffordable transport systems, poor quality of care, weak exemption and waiver system to the poor who are unable to pay for health services, shortage of skilled providers and poor governance and accountability mechanisms. MWEDO aims at reducing infant mortality, child mortality, malaria related mortality and maternal mortality.
By solving the above problems MWEDO decides to build its own health center at the grassroots level so the community can access the all required health services.
CONTACT US
Feel free to contact us via the addresses below;
MAASAI WOMEN DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION
P. O. Box 15240, Arusha Tanzania
Tel; +255 27 254 4290
Fax; +255 27 254 4290
Mob; +255 784 210 839
email: mwedo@habari.co.tz
web: http://www.maasaiwomentanzania.org
