Nurturing growth
The Children’s Eco Village is Islamic Help’s pioneering sustainability project in Mkuranga, Tanzania. It provides family oriented orphan care for 50 of Mkuranga’s most vulnerable girls, with pioneering building designs, and regenerative farming in the lush landscape of the East African coastal zone, providing community employment and spreading climate-change resilient farming methods
Humble Beginnings
In 2012, we set up the Children's Eco Village in the Mkuranga District of Tanzania, 40km south of Dar es Salaam. The village is a ground-breaking initiative designed to promote environmental sustainability and provide a loving home for orphaned and vulnerable girls. It provides a safe, supportive, and healing natural environment for the girls who live there, whilst modelling a sustainable way of living through the on-site permaculture farm and eco-mosque
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An Opportunity for Growth
Tanzania has almost 2.6 million orphans, the majority of which are due to HIV/AIDS. Over 40% of Tanzanians live below the poverty line, the vast majority of these in rural and semi-rural areas like Kisemvule. With the average family struggling to meet their basic needs, widows and extended families often struggle to care for orphaned children. Opportunities for women and girls are still relatively restricted, with barriers to education a major problem.
