VISION: ECOLI envisages a Tanzania with educated and developed citizens.

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Posted October 18th, 2007 by ELIMU
VISION: ECOLI envisages a Tanzania with educated and developed citizens.

MISSION

Large ECOLI's Mission is  NGO, not political and not for profit sharing organization dedicated to enhance capacity  of the marginalized groups  through linking them with opportunity and advocate for affordable, accessible and quality education.

Its currently  mission is to advocate for the provision of ECD to children aged 0-8 years, impart knowledge and skills on positive care-giving and develop models of good practice in caring and developing for small children.

BACKGROUND

Elimu Community Light (ECOLI) emerged in 1999 in response to a growing number of violent acts in the Daraja II ward of the Arusha Municipality and the potential problems for children who have been exposed to such dangers. ECOLI became an officially registered Tanzanian NGO in 2006 with registered No: OONGO/1699 and presently conducts many other activities beyond just ECD provision in Daraja II ward. Its head office is in Arusha Municipality with a mandate to operate in Tanzania Mainland. The organization is response to lack of proper care and development of children in the community. In 2008, ECOLI began offering a teacher training course which is now successfully empowering 138 teachers and caretakers in the Arusha Municipality with new ECD knowledge and skills. ECOLI is a growing community-based organization with ambitious plans to increase the scale and scope of its work for the betterment of all young children in Tanzania, starting with the Arusha Municipality.

Two central beliefs inform the work of ECOLI they are that the nation which is developing depends on its educated and skilled citizens and also that the foundation of adulthood is built in early childhood. ECOLI’s theory of change is based on creating awareness, innovation and change and model for change is through promoting awareness and change on ECD that enable young children to access quality care, protection and development through implementing projects and programs that improve the well being of the children in the community.

The dream of ECOLI is to one day children can receive quality ECD in all Arusha Municipality community and eventually maybe move beyond that. If the need for developing young children could be better understood by all and ECD would be invested in, then ECOLI would be able to rest. However, this is not yet the reality and ECOLI would like to grow in its influence to advocate for young children and lobby for provision of quality ECD that is available and accessible to all. This is all just a means, of course, for developing Tanzanian society as a whole and ensuring future success by putting forth the effort to take care of the upcoming generation of Tanzanian citizens.

 

 

OBJECTIVES

1. To identify problems facing marginalized groups in the  society and find the way out to solve them.
2. To enhance quality care, education and welbeing of young children in the community.
3. To enhance quality livelihood among society members.
4. Linking with other organizations and sectors to ensure that the improvement of society is well being.

 

 

PROGRAMS

  1.  Early Childhood Care and      Development (ECCD):-Promoting a holistic approach to early child years in building human foundation and break the cycle of ignorance, diseases and poverty.
  2. Capacity building:- Empowering community stakeholders to achieve their potential through sharpening saws event on issues pertaining to achievements of their goals with special interest on Grants/Donors , Fund raising and report writing.
  3.  Advocacy:- Reaching beyond the mainstream on the needs of marginalized groups and other difficulties as a spearhead of source of their development through networking and coalition movement with other likeminded organization. 
  4.  Financing project:-To ensuring that some project which reinforce the development of marginalized groups according to their needs do not lose out if stake holders will not afford to carry out.
  5. Cross cutting issues:-Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS, orphans, street children, children employment, gender, disability and environment in our programs through partnerships, networking and sharing best practices

 

  CURRENTLY PROGRAM

 ECOLI is undertaking a training program to ECD professionals i.e day caretakers and teachers in Arusha municipality who will in turn build the capacity of children and the communities as a whole. ECOLI is offering them capacity building course with contents include training on a holistic approach on ECD service needs. Overall, the course could be seen as divided into six primary units that include:

  1.  knowledge of child psychology;
  2. special curriculum for how to care, teach and educate young children;
  3. early childhood care and development (ECCD) perspectives at home, day care centres, schools and in the community;
  4. organization administration and management under human resource management concepts;
  5.  basic health education and
  6. research conducting skills.

Theoretically and practically ECOLI had trained a total of one hundred and thirty eight (138) ECD care takers and teachers in Arusha Municipality up to date. This program had been brought a significant of improvement of ECD and change in the community. ECOLI also hosts dialogues with the local government and other child stakeholders, networks with other NGOs and likeminded groups/individuals, and lob-bies for the rights and added importance for young children at every available opportunity. Presently,

Next step ECOLI aims to empower and innovate ECD services delivery in the community through promoting, sensitizing and improve ECD practitioners to provide children needs at their day care and pre school centers that include teaching aids/materials, nutrition food, health monitoring etc. In order to fulfill this, ECOLI is seeking a development partner who will support this project program just because the outcomes of education and investment in children are now. In fact, making the mistake of inadequately addressing children’s needs is likely to result in further problems in the future that are more expensive to fix and can have horrible consequences.

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GENERAL ECOLI's STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES

  • Doing research so to identify problems facing marginalized groups i.e. children, youths and women and find the way to eradicate them.
  • To create opportunity and promote a quality Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) to children with difficulties such as orphans, vulnerable and very disadvantage children, street children and others.
  • To promote and create awareness to the society concerning human rights especially children’s rights
  • To promote adult education for those who have not attended school together with social skills.
  • To act as catalyst of positive attitudes of society changes by implementing programmes this will fast development of Marginalized groups.
  • To link / cooperate with  Local  CBOs,  N G Os, FBOs religious societies, social organizations, local and international non  governmental organizations , volunteers individuals and others groups not specified  to ensure that  the improvement of society is well being.
  •  Advocacy for better society policy for equity, accessibility, affordability and quality.
  •  Consultancies for propagating our expertise and generating a shared understanding of issue and way forward and Sustainability.

 

AREAS OF OPERATION

Since it registered to operate in whole Tanzania mainland, ECOLI desire to operate country wide at the future. By starting ECOLI plans to operate in Northern Tanzania zone and currently its operate in Arusha region specifically in Arusha municipality. Also ECOLI is collaborate with Maarifa ni Ufunguo in ECD programs where Maarifa ni Ufunguo operate.