Strategic Initiatives
TANZANIA CHILDREN’S TASK FORCE
 In collaboration with the Jane Goodall Institute, the Whole Child Initiative, and the TACARE Reforestation and Education Project, the State of the World Forum created the Tanzania Children's Task Force, which worked to relieve the suffering of local citizens in the Kigoma Region of northwest Tanzania, home to the Gombe Stream Research Center, an area impacted by the thousands of war refugees who have fled from nearby Rwanda and Burundi.
As a first step, the Task Force:
- Secured funds for a water and sanitation project, in conjunction with the International Rescue Committee and UNICEF, created to serve over 170,000 people in thirty villages;
- Raised $500,000 over a ten-year period to implement a Fertility Awareness and Women's Education Project;
- Provided support for an orphanage, schools and a hospital in the region.
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