Tanzania Orphans Upendo Community

Touco intends to facilitate Community orphan care crisis awareness into the formation of familia Upendo and Upendo villages as basic alternative orphan care units to the biological extended families, currently overwhelmed by the magnitude of the orphan care crisis in Tanzania and africa at large. This touco model can be easily adapted by villages and districts, regions and countries to raise their Orphans in safe and loving environments. The model weaves pertinent african traditions and customs in caring for Orphans and vulnerable children (ovc) within a broad spectrum of african cultures. The model, though initially capital intensive, matures as inexpensive and appropriate within the african rural context.