The challenges and hardships that children and adolescents face in Tanzania are complex. Many are at high risk of acquiring HIV or are already living with HIV. Many of their families have difficulty affording school or enough food to eat. Or, with no adult caregivers at home, they may be heading their household with little or no help.

When Pact launched the Kizazi Kipya project, funded by USAID, in 2016 to holistically improve the lives of orphans and vulnerable children across the country, we knew that our interventions would need to be complex as well. Five years later, as Kizazi Kipya comes to a close, we are proud of what we’ve accomplished with our many partners, especially the resilient and determined families and children we served.

In this October blog, Dr. Deogratias Kakiziba, the project's chief of party, and Alison Kohler, technical advisor for orphans and vulnerable children programming and social welfare systems strengthening, share more about the project's impact and lessons we learned that could help others support children to flourish into thriving adults.

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