ERICK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION FOR DISABLED (EMFERD)
Cause Area
- Arts & Culture
- Children & Youth
- Community
- Health & Medicine
- People with Disabilities
Location
P.O.BOX 2016MOROGORO, MOROGORO 255Tanzania TanzaniaWebsite:
http://www.emferd.orgOrganization Information
Mission Statement
THE MISSION STATEMENT OF THE ORGANISATION IS TO OFFER AND SUPPORT IN TERMS OF EDUCATION, REHABILITATION AND GENERAL WELFARE OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, AND THAT THEIR RIGHTS ARE RESPECTED IN AND OUTSIDE TANZANIA.
Description
Erick Memorial Foundation for Education and Rehabilitation for Disabled. is a non-profit making organization established in May 2011 by Ms. Josephine Bakhita and her fellow stakeholders. The Foundation has a registration Certificate Number NG0 4606.
Being a Social Worker, Josephine managed to mobilize her fellow stakeholders in struggle towards the basic rights and needs of disabled children and thereby established EMFERD.
The vision of the organization is to assure that people with disabilities are equipped with quality education, care and rehabilitated according to their respective disabilities.
The mission statement of the organization shall be to offer and support in terms of education, rehabilitation and general welfare of persons with disabilities, and that their rights are respected in and outside Tanzania.
EMFERD area of operation according to registration certificate covers the entire Districts of Tanzania Mainland, but to start-with we are concentrating in the districts of Gairo, Kilosa, Morogoro and Mvomero within Morogoro Region. Focusing rural remote villages where there is high demand of social services due to inconveniences of infrastructures to reach targeted population.
Our objective is to lay down and strengthening services to most vulnerable groups in rural remote areas through a comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation Program (C.B.R) with a general purpose of improving the quality standard services to the disabled persons without too much donor dependence.