Peter & Mary Street – TANZANIA GIRLS HOME PROJECT

The vision for the girls’ home “HOUSE OF HOPE” is to raise up a center for “Accepted” girls that others have orphaned, abused physically and have walked away from, or girls who have a disability, are not wanted, and are forced to provide for their families and themselves on the streets through means of forced prostitution.

The girls’ home will be a home that focuses on providing a family atmosphere. It is our heart’s aim to give these young girls a place to call home; not just an institute to keep them alive, but a home to help them and teach them life skills, and how valued they are to the One who created them, their Father in Heaven. Our aim is to give them a home to mentor them and teach them of God’s great love for them. We will aim to provide a safe and loving environment for disadvantaged young girls and to provide basic needs through providing daily food, clothing them, giving them an education and giving them love. We would also like to teach them a life skill for the future of their livelihood. Through the love of Christ we aim to give them hope and a future and teach them that God has a plan for their life and that they are precious to Him.

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Vision for these targeted young girls:

1. 1. To provide them with a school education and job skills, so that they can be provided with an opportunity for future employment as they grow older.
2. 2. To teach them basic life skills so that they will be given a chance to reintegrate back into a normal society.
3. 3. To teach them through demonstration the love of God so that they will be healed inside out and grow confident and secure in who they are, knowing that they have a purpose in this world.

Description of the target group

Street girls: A street child is a child who may live on the street full-time or part-time. These young girls may have living relatives but for whatever reason are forced on the streets to beg for food and money or forced to perform sexual favors (FORCED PROSTITUTION) for food and money. Many times they are forced on the streets to provide income for the family or to provide income to support abusive habits like drugs and alcohol. Some street children are themselves, addicts. Young girls forced into this kind of life have no self esteem, little life skills, many times no education, are extremely bitter and full of anger, many are sexually abused, suffer with lifelong struggles of trust and healthy love, and many come from neglectful homes and suffer with lifelong social dysfunctions.

The primary causal factor driving children to the streets in Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro region is neglect and abuse of a verbal, physical, and sexual nature.

In the Kilimanjaro region alone, 30% of young girls in and out of our region are engaged in sex trade.

Unwanted disabled girls:A disabled child may be one with down-syndrome, some type of disease or physical disability that would cause their family to not want them for fear of them not being able to cohabitate in society. Many times in Tanzania a child of this nature is abused sexually within the family or tossed away because they are considered “NO GOOD”.

OUR AIM: To reach out to young girls (toddler-teenager) involved with prostitution, forced prostitution, abuse cases and disability cases.

WHAT WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED TO DATE:

1. 1. Bought land (1 Acre): $36,000
2. 2. Built a Fence: $5,000
3. 3. Installed a Security Gate: $457
4. 4. Drilled and Cased a Bore Hole/ Water Well: $10,800

OUR NEEDS:

1. 1. We are in need of Labor cost & building material. To build a facility that will house around 40 girls, it will cost approximately $130,000 dollars.
2. 2. We are in need of first time start up costs for household appliances and furniture: $8,000

APPROXIMATE TOTAL COST OF GIRLS HOME PROJECT: $138,000

Once we have money to buy materials to build we will be able to bring missions building teams from abroad to come and build and allow people to experience this 3^rd world country of Tanzania and what God is doing.

We are excited at what God is doing and believe His heart is for the children and people of Tanzania. God has given us a mandate to reach out and be His hands, feet and voice to the children, youth, young adults and adults of this 3rd world country. WILL YOU HELP????

VISION CAST ON RAISING SUPPORT:

1. 1. If we can find 138 people, churches or companies to give a 1 time gift of $1,000 dollars then we’ve met our budget.
2. 2. If we can find 276 people, churches or businesses to give a 1 time gift of $500 dollars then we’ll have met our budget.
3. 3. If we can find 552 people, companies or churches to give a 1 time gift of $250 dollars then we’ll have met our budget.
4. 4. If we can find just 1,104 people, companies or churches to partner with us and give a love gift of $125 dollars then we’ll have met our budget.

PLEASE PRAY AND ASK GOD HOW YOU CAN GIVE!!!!!

“If a man shuts his ears to the poor (widows, orphans, homeless, abused, broken families), he too will cry out and not be answered. A generous man will himself be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.”

~PROVERBS 21:13, 22:9~