Our Mission:
Hananasif Orphanage Centre Trust fund (HOCET) serves to give disadvantaged children in and around Dar es Salaam an opportunity to learn, grow and develop their talents within a safe, nurturing and dynamic community.
It’s difficult to attend to the needy in our communities if we don’t know exactly what our GIVING status and attitudes are. What do we perceive in the word GIVE? HOCET strongly believes that everyone has something to give to the needy; If not cash maybe time, expertise, material or experience.
HOCET is opening doors by working with both loneliness and poverty simultaneously. Many organizations dealing with orphans only serve their basic needs, but not their broken hearts. Upon losing parents or relatives, plenty of psychological problems may arise when orphans mature; it’s a time they feel most the absence of their parents, and we feel it’s the right moment to think of their future and take them closer by putting their interests, needs and aspirations into consideration. We urge our community to focus on creating opportunities for the kids to succeed. It is well understood that education is a necessity in the world today. How does the community create enough opportunities for the needy to pursue? Who is behind a specific kid pushing him/her to reach a dream?
We emphasize the community to diversify their mindset from thinking that orphans and vulnerable children are to be employed as home workers with low wages. We urge people to view orphans and vulnerable children with high expectations, capable of learning anything if only given the chance.
These kids have many talents which are constantly under utilized and underdeveloped; HOCET works on cultivating and developing the talents these kids posses. For instance, the amazing youth choir which is now known by many people in Dar es Salaam, is a good landmark of the existence of our programs. The sales from their albums have helped greatly in generating income and raising awareness, support, and volunteers to work with us. We have many other talented kids beyond the choir as well; fine artists, decorators, comedians, actors and actresses and more.
As a “HOCET family” we create a home atmosphere to make kids achievements possible, helping them set their goals, identify opportunities, and change world. We create a safe environment for them to decide what they want to do on their own, and prepare them to be good leaders in making social justice possible.
Our Vision:
Hananasif Orphanage Centre Trust fund’s vision is to see a Tanzania in which orphans and vulnerable children are integrated into a healthy, productive and caring community, and given tools they need to establish themselves as agents of change in their own communities and future leaders of country’s economic and human development.
We prepare our kids to view being called orphans as not something negative, but something they can turn into a positive understanding, and become volunteers. It makes them forget their own loneliness and find themselves being responsible for others.
We put an emphasis on health care as the first capital of every human being, hoping it will spread back to community they came from. HOCET strongly believes that caring for others should start by everyone becoming an active part of their community, not only government, religious institutions or others organizations, if we are to live in a peaceful world.
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