With hundreds of girls at risk of forced Female Genital Mutilation in Tanzania, there has for a long time been a strong need for a safe place for them to run. Mugumu Safe House is exactly that.
Mugumu Safe House and Vocational Training Centre is a nonprofit organization that fights FGM and child marriage in Tanzania by offering a safe place for girls refusing FGM. Furthermore, we offer the girls a range of courses during their stay to build their confidence and understanding of independence.
Interested in finding out more about our work this past cutting season? The challenges we faced? Our plans going forward? There’s a couple of ways you can do that. Hope has created a Progress Report to update our supporters, that you can find at the following link: http://www.tanzdevtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/HGWT-SEASONAL-AND-PROGRESS-REPORT-FEB-2019.pdf Follow our new social media sites. Since the … More Interested in finding out more about the Mugumu Safe House?
When the Mugumu Safe House was set up in December 2014 the surrounding areas were, like all of rural Tanzania, extremely poorly mapped. This made the outreach work in the villages and rescuing the girls both very difficult. Therefore we set up Crowd2Map Tanzania a crowdsourced mapping project aiming to put rural Tanzania on the … More Mapping the Future
Ella is running two half marathons this summer to raise money for the Safe House – please help support her! … More How a Marathon becomes a Helping Hand
A donation of just $10 will buy material enough for the girls to create two dresses
