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About Us

OUR BACKGROUND

Our story starts way back more than 20 years ago to improve womens life.

Fahari ya Mama Tanzania (FMT) is a non-profit, Non-Governmental Organization, non-profit sharing organization working with women, youth and vulnerable and marginalized groups of people in Tanzania. FMT evolved from women and environment protection activist aimed at protecting environment and health of people by promoting utilization of alternative clean energies for kitchen and domestic use as well as protecting women, girls and youth from burden of fetching fire wood and charcoal for domestic purposes.

In 2002, FMT was fully registered as NGO with number 00NGO/R/3237 with the purpose of improving the livelihoods of Women, youth (youth girls and boys) and other marginalized and vulnerable groups both in urban and rural areas through nutrition and food security, environmental and nature conservation protection, alternative energies cooking energies promotion, health, economic empowerment, human rights and HIV/AIDS.

The organization is established with courage of networking different NGO forum, National associations and organizations in Tanzania including development partners, companies, institutions, and individuals in contributing to achieving the organizational goals for improving the quality life of women, youth and marginalized community in Tanzania, through lobbying and advocacy, awareness raising, research, information sharing, facilitating access to education, better health and nutrition, safe cooking energies, vocational trainings and economic empowerment

This organization is one that has combined financial and technical assistance for women youth and marginalized groups with empowerment and training programs. As a model of operation FMT has encouraged women and youth to organize themselves into groups which has created cohesiveness within members of the groups. Instead of struggling alone, now these women and youth can work together to solve problems. FMT has focused on participatory, sustainable and empowerment projects.

Our Mission

To support and advocate for the needs and rights of marginalized women and youth to enable them initiate and manage their own socio-economic and development processes.

Our Vision

Having the world that women, youth and marginalized communities are able to realize their full socio-economic, environmental, health and humanity potential, and work to create a world where gender equality is a reality.

We Focus on 6 Thematic Strategic Areas

Rights Awareness and Leadership Education
Water, Hygiene and Sanitation Improvement
Communication and domestic technologies development and dissemination
Advocacy, Sensitization and lobbying for social capital development and women empowerment
Environmental Protection and Nature Conservation and clean coking energies technologies development
Food, Nutrition and Income Security including reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS to adolescence