Paje, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Paje, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Paje, Zanzibar, Tanzania
12 Project reviews of More Africa
Project Details
More Africa is a special school for physical and/or mental disabled children in Paje, Zanzibar. We provide special education, physical therapy, daycare and medical care.
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Africa is a non-governmental organization (NGO) on Zanzibar which focuses on
children and young adults with physical and/or mental disabilities. The special school provides special education, physical therapy, medical
help, training and daycare to children who aren’t allowed anywhere else because
of their disability.
Goals
More Africa is a NGO founded in
2015 by the Dutch Ellen van Beers.
The main aim of More Africa is the special school, in order to provide every
child the right to education, therapy and/or meaningful daytime activities. On
Zanzibar, education, counseling or therapy for children/young adults with
disabilities are not obvious. Parents often struggle with the fact that they
want the best for their child, but the child cannot go anywhere and will not be
accepted at regular schools. For these children, More Africa is there. We
provide customized education, counseling and therapy.
Our approach
The More Africa school offers a
nursery, primary and physical therapy department. Besides, More Africa offers
job opportunities for young adults with disabilities from the age of 18 and
older. In this way we strive to increase positive impacts of tourism and
decrease the negative sides of tourism, by focussing on community based
tourism.
The More Africa school offers these children and young adults the opportunity
to develop themselves in a familiar and safe environment, as More Africa works
with individual careplans and all children have their own personal goals they
would like to achieve.
More Africa is a progressive organization on Zanzibar when it comes to
involving parents in the development, guidance and support of their child. More
Africa is convinced that it is essential to involve parents in the development
of the child. In this way parents can continue the development at home, in the
familiar surroundings.
Departments
More Africa supports children and
young adults with special needs in their development through physical therapy,
training, special education and daycare. More Africa works with five departments:
1. Nursery
This group consists toddlers and children with major development delays. We
prepare them for the primary school by teaching them basic scholar and social
skills.
2. Primary school
This group consists of children who are not allowed in Zanzibar to go to a
government school due to their disabilities
3. Daycare
More Africa offers daycare for children with severe mental disabilities. We
offer these children education by experiential learning. This means that it is
about education in which you allow children to gain as much experience as
possible, so that they learn to experience and discover for themselves.
4. Physical Therapy
This group consists of children with multiple
disabilities. We offer these children especially physical therapy and daycare
through sensory stimulation. These children often have Cerebral Palsy.
5. 18+ Trainingprogram
More Africa offers a training programme for people with disabilities from
the age of 18.
The training program prepares our employees to work within the hospitality
sector. We teach our employees to work as security, gardener, bartender, chef
or housekeeper. We believe that everyone has the ability to be a meaningful
member of the community. In this way we create employment opportunities
for people with disabilities.
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Social Impact
More Africa started in a garage in Chukwani, near Zanzibar city. Here we started with 3 children and slowly grew. After 1 year we have had the opportunity to further grow the project on the east coast. More Africa has realized the school and guesthouse here in the last 4 years. In the meantime, the project has gained great name recognition in Paje, and also in the rest of Zanzibar. The first year we literally had to look for children, because children with a disability are not so visible in Zanzibar. Now people are coming to us but we often have to disappoint them because the school is too small and we cannot place more children. More Africa wants to keep the quality high, so this is a struggle. On the one hand the project wants to help all children and offer them a place, on the other hand it must be possible to continue to do this at a high quality level.
In 2017, Ellen was followed for 10 days by the "Brabant Worldwide" program of Omroep Brabant, this broadcast can be found online.
More Africa works with individual care plans and all children have their own personal goals that are worked on daily. As a result, the progression of the children is monitored on a monthly basis and the goals are evaluated every three months and adjusted where possible. In this way the children continue to learn at their own pace.
More Africa has provided medical assistance to children, has diagnoses performed, has operations performed, supported parents, provided information, broke the taboo on disabilities, supervised volunteers and students, but perhaps most importantly: giving “our” children a voice again, also although they often cannot talk. Children can be themselves at More Africa and learn at their own pace. These children now receive schooling again, where they were not admitted to government schools. They can work on a future by playing in the guesthouse, and perhaps by learning the realization of the new school a trade in the studio. These children no longer need to be tucked away, but can show "here I am!"