Young ladies, including school dropouts,have started to benefit from entrepreneurial skills, courtesy of Rotary Club of Arusha Mt. Meru.
About 18 of them graduate every year in tailoring skills and in other trades which have ensured them self employment.
Yvonne Kahimbura, the charity organization's projects director said here at the weekend that the tailoring graduates are offered sewing machines.
"We support the most needy girls; those who never completed school or never went to school", she said.
She revealed this last weekend during an event organized by the charity organization to raise money to support the most vulnerable groups.
She said besides tailoring, Rotary Club of Arusha Mount Meru was sponsoring training stints in bakery and in other skills which can create income for the young ladies.
Ms Kahumbura is a social worker currently working with the Arusha-based Eastern Africa National Network of AIDS and Health Service Organization (EANNASO) as the Policy and Advocacy Team Leader.
Previously she coordinated work around the Global Fund Community Rights and Gender (GF CRG) Anglophone platform across 25 African countries.
Currently sits at the East African Community Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights technic working group.
The event at the Gymkhana Club began with a Golf competition among members of the charity and climaxed with the auctioning of various items so as to raise funds to support the needy.
Ms Rosely Kwenda, the current President said the club has teamed up with St. Elizabeth Hospital in Arusha in serving the lives of babies born prematurely.
Most of them are those delivered at the government-run Mt. Meru Regional Hospital which doubles as a Referral Hospital.
Preterm birth is when a baby is born too early, before 37 weeks of pregnancy have been completed.
Premature children born there are immediately transferred to a neonatal clinic established at the church-owned St. Elizabeth Hospital in Ngarenaro suburb of Arusha.
Such babies usually need care in a special nursery called the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for care by specially trained doctors and other medical personnel.
Other community support activities include installation of water tanks for the poor suburbs in the city, distribution of dustbins for garbage collection and tree planting along the river banks.
Another project is support to Njiro primary and secondary schools which are supported with the supply of textbooks, computer labs and internet connectivity.
Two years ago at the height of Covid-19 impact, the club handed over water tanks with combined capacity to hold 22,000 litres of water to various medical outfits here.
The Rotary Club of Arusha Mt. Meru is one of the five rotary clubs in Arusha. They support a host of community services projects, largely in health, education and water supply.
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