Mwajuma is a very confident young woman with great communication skills. She is bright and at high school she was head girl. Mwajuma home life was altogether more challenging. Her father occasionally has work as a builder’s labourer but work is scarce. Her mother breaks rocks for construction, one of the lowest paid jobs earning…
Daniela originally comes from rural Musoma in the Northern area of Tanzania. In this area of Tanzania women and girls have a very tough time. Incidences of FGM and domestic abuse are commonplace as is child labour. Just like many other girls there she was removed from school after primary level and was forced to…
Jumana was 18 when she first came to WEEDO, recommended by one of the local high school teachers. Having finished school she was living at home with her sick sister and two brothers, her father having died in 2021 and her mother having abandoned the children years earlier. Kindly neighbours offered some free accommodation but…
Mary is the eldest of 6 children and lives at home with her mother and stepfather. It is a loving family environment but they live under real financial pressure. Her stepfather works causally as a security guard but the work is infrequent. There is the desire to see their children thriving but simply they don’t…
Anna is now 21. As a young child Anna’s mother left the family so she lived with her father and her new stepmother. Sadly, the new family was living in extreme poverty. Her father would occasionally get work as a local security guard earning perhaps $30 per month but this was infrequent. The family of…