MACAO project has provided HIV/AIDS education to various groups including, religious leaders, Maasai traditional elders, Traditional Birth Attendants, traditional healers, community based counselors, peers, and People Living With HIV/AIDS and the community at large.
MACAO is committed to seeing that people with HIV/AIDS, orphans, and widows love and live proper lives in society and are entitled to the basic rights of food, security, basic education, vocational training, healthcare, shelter, employment, and participation in community development."
What we do...
We have 6 main programs activities These are.
. Teaching the community prevention methods for HIV/AIDS,TB, Malaria, Envelopment care and Providing Maasai women and girl, orphans and Vulnerable Children essential food, Clothing, education and medical care.
.Human Rights and Advocacy for communities, widows and orphans Live With HIV/AIDS to live and be empowered
. To empower Maasai communities in economic situation improvement.
. Community Service Development
. Maasai Cultural and educational programs.
. Culturally and socially through implementing activities in capacity building, HIV/AIDS interventions as well as Advocacy for Human Rights
and Education.
What you can do ...
These programmes seek Volunteers and Donors to
empower pastoralists maasai communities And we welcome Volunteers, Donors from all around the world to develop awareness- HIV/AIDS prevention, poverty eradication and other diseases in Maasai communities. Macao tries to address the problems of Human Rights by engaging Maasai in educational programmes, supporting Maasai communities in setting and creating a stronger prevention and supporting Maasai female representation in the communities.
Macao Development Needs’ Statement
About MACAO...
The Malezi AIDS Care Awareness Organization (MACAO) is a humanitarian service organization located in Arusha Northern Tanzania working in partnership with the local community, government and other local and international institutions to improve the lives of pastoralists in the local community through community empowerment to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other preventable diseases.
What we do...
We have 6 main programs activities These are.
- Teaching the community prevention methods for HIV/AIDS,TB, Malaria, Environment Care and providing Maasai women and girl, orphans and vulnerable children essential food, clothing, education and medical care.
- Human Rights and Advocacy for communities, widows and orphans Live With HIV/AIDS to live and be empowered
- To empower Maasai communities in economic situation improvement.
- Community Service Development
- Maasai cultural and educational programs.
- Culturally and socially through implementing activities in capacity building, HIV/AIDS interventions as well as Advocacy for Human Rights and Education
What you can do ...
These programmes seek Volunteers and Donors to empower pastoralists maasai communities and we welcome Volunteers, Donors from all around the world to develop awareness- HIV/AIDS prevention, poverty eradication and other diseases in Maasai communities. Macao tries to address the problems of Human Rights by engaging Maasai in educational programmes, supporting Maasai communities in setting and creating a stronger prevention and supporting Maasai female representation in the communities.
The MACAO organization in Arusha has considerable experience working with HIV/AIDS projects. The main ethnic group in Ngorongoro district is Maasai people; nevertheless, there are high levels of immigrants searching for business within the area. Macao is located within Loliondo Division and focuses on two Wards, Orgosorok and Soitisambu. These areas have high unemployed people with poor health; many of them are livestock keepers. MACAO has made an informal research in area and discovered that AIDS is spreading in high rate within this community. MACAO has provided an awareness education concerning AIDS to this society. Loliondo Division in Ngorongoro district have been recognized as a High Transmission Area for HIV/AIDS, caused by a high level of human interaction between Business people and Maasai who are livestock keepers. Cultural practices and Maasai Tribe Structural Setup which include polygamy, hospitality culture between maasai age mates, diseased family inheritance, Female Genital Mutilation and traditional dance ‘Esoto’ between teenagers (boy and girls) which encourage unprotected sex.
Macao Development Needs’ Statement
MACAO project has provided HIV/AIDS education to various groups including, religious leaders, Maasai traditional elders, Traditional Birth Attendants, traditional healers, community based counselors, peers, and People Living With HIV/AIDS and the community at large.
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We welcome volunteers Donor from all around the world who are willing to support and give care to HIV/AIDS patients, orphans and vulnerable Children, and widows. MACAO would like to invite you to Arusha-Tanzania to work with us in helping to improve the lives of our communities. We also greatly appreciate any donations to support our efforts.
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