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Justice for a Child Rape Case in Tanzania

A long way towards accessing justice for a child rape case in Tanzania.

In Ten Years Kiwohede (Kiota Women Health and Development organisation) has managed to Find Justice for one of the victim of rape case .The story starts when the rape incident occurred when tula (not exact name), a 12 years trafficked domestic worker was […]

Sarah Hogan to cycle 458 miles from Bristol to Amsterdam for KIOTA

On the 26th of May I’ll leave Bristol on my bike in the hope of cycling it to Amsterdam on my own. According to googlemaps, the 458 miles would take 8 hours and 30 minutes to drive, but I’ll probably need 10 days. Taking into consideration my lack of map-reading skills and the fact I’ve […]

Alex raises £300 cycling from Luton to Brighton on a fixed wheel!

Before I get started, thank you to all the people who sponsored me and especially Ray from TRI LONDON, triathlon club, it is much appreciated. This was so far the best ride of my life, it was at the time the longest ride I’d ever been on, and as I picked the hardest route to […]

World AIDS Day - 1st December 2006

Nothing can be successful in the fight against AIDS if other problems are not tackled, including alleviation of abject poverty, treatment of communicable diseases, good governance, supply of water, improvement of education and fair, equal distribution of global resources.

Extract from the Executive Director of KIWOHEDE’s report from the XVI International AIDS Conference in […]

Commemoration of International Women’s Day

Since 1999, KIWOHEDE has been able to help more than 15,000 girls and young women get back to school, acquire skills and find jobs because of counselling and support from KIWOHEDE staff.

On Thursday 2nd March UN staff visited the KIWOHEDE centre (partially funded by Kiota) in Buguruni in order to commemorate International Women’s Day.

The visit […]

International support

Susan Sarandon joined a group of children watching a performance by children at a UNICEF-assisted Kiwohede drop-in centre in 2000.

Elisa’s Story

Elisa is 18 years old and works for KIWOHEDE in one of Dar es Salaam’s sprawling slums.

Elisa never went to school and can’t read or write. Her family was dispersed and at the age of nine a woman took Elisa to Dar es Salaam to work. She was, in effect, kidnapped.

Many young girls from rural […]